Thursday, 2 July 2009

CONCACAF Gold Cup starts in USA

The championship for North, Central America and the Caribbean, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, starts in USA tomorrow friday. Twelve teams have qualified for this biennal tournament and they are divide into three groups with four teams in each. The two best teams from each group and two best third placed teams advances to the quarter finals.

Host nation USA plays in group B with Honduras, Haiti and Grenada. Group A consists of Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica and El Salvador. Finally in group C Panama, Guadeloupe, Nicaragua and Mexico are the participants.

The opening day will see two games in group A:

Canada-Jamaica
Costa Rica-El Salvador

The games will be played in 13 different cities, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle and Washington DC.

USA have won the last two editions of the tournament.

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