CONCACAF Nations League 2023/2024 - Group Stage & ¼finals - General Thread

[Obinna]

 

Ineresting little preview video of the upcomming window. Love the Honduras prediction, would love to face them in NL quarters.

[narduch]

One Soccer will have a few games.

Cuba v Honuras on Thursday. 

T+T v Guatemala on Friday 

[Ruud]

I see the November window roughly but do we know the expected day and location of our home game?

 

[narduch]

15 minutes ago, Ruud said:

I see the November window roughly but do we know the expected day and location of our home game?

 

BMO Field according to a Duane Rollins tweet last week.

The 2nd leg date is November 19-21

Edited October 10, 2023 by narduch

[Ruud]

1 minute ago, narduch said:

BMO Field according to a Duane Rollins tweet last week

And the expected day of the game?

[narduch]

11 minutes ago, Ruud said:

And the expected day of the game?

Sorry I edited my post after your reply.

November 19-21

[Bigandy]

15 minutes ago, narduch said:

Sorry I edited my post after your reply.

November 19-21

Would the 19-21 would be the home game and the 16thish would be the away leg? 

[narduch]

26 minutes ago, Bigandy said:

Would the 19-21 would be the home game and the 16thish would be the away leg? 

I think so

[Bigandy]

7 minutes ago, narduch said:

I think so

I hope so. Ill be in toronto the 19th onwards.  Anyone have any idea when the tickets would go on sale?

[Shway]

59 minutes ago, narduch said:

Sorry I edited my post after your reply.

November 19-21

I hope the game is on the 19th mid day.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

2 hours ago, Shway said:

I hope the game is on the 19th mid day.

https://www.concacaf.com/nations-league/news/concacaf-announces-schedule-for-2023-24-concacaf-nations-league-presented-by-qatar-airways/

Implies this won't happen.

Two quarterfinals on Monday night. Two on the Tuesday night.

Since the USA is doing the Thursday-Monday schedule (in reverse, likely due to not wanting to host during the week of USA Thanksgiving), and Costa Rica and Mexico haven't announced anything, it seems there is a ⅓ chance we play on Monday night and  ⅔ chance we play on the Tuesday night.

Edited October 10, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[narduch]

Guessing our November match will be announced soon.

 

 

[Ottawafan]

And I am going to say its in Toronto!

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

https://canadasoccer.com/news/canada-returns-to-toronto-for-crucial-concacaf-quarterfinals-with-copa-america-berth-on-the-line/

On 10/10/2023 at 5:12 PM, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

and  ⅔ chance we play on the Tuesday night.

Toronto and a Tuesday night as expected.

[SpursFlu]

Cuba look to be getting a good team. Skimming thru their roster they seem to be expats or defectors playing abroad. Solid team of professionals

[trc2014]

Extra hopeful we draw T&T and not Jamaica now.

[patstew19]

10 hours ago, SpursFlu said:

Cuba look to be getting a good team. Skimming thru their roster they seem to be expats or defectors playing abroad. Solid team of professionals

Greased out a 0-0 draw against Honduras. That’s good, makes the chances of having to go see Canada in Honduras less likely 

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

2 minutes ago, patstew19 said:

Greased out a 0-0 draw against Honduras. That’s good, makes the chances of having to go see Canada in Honduras less likely 

Cuba had a real chance to score in the 45th minute too!

 

39 minutes ago, trc2014 said:

Extra hopeful we draw T&T and not Jamaica now.

We will see if T & T's good run of form can continue tonight.

[Obinna]

10 hours ago, SpursFlu said:

Cuba look to be getting a good team. Skimming thru their roster they seem to be expats or defectors playing abroad. Solid team of professionals

I've been thinking the same thing. People clowned us for struggling against them, but they had some respectable showings prior to Gold Cup, including playing Chile and Uruguay away and only conceeding 5 combined goals. That's a massive improvement for a team like Cuba. They've gotten better for sure, people just haven't realised it yet. 

Edited October 13, 2023 by Obinna

[VinceA]

2 hours ago, patstew19 said:

Greased out a 0-0 draw against Honduras. That’s good, makes the chances of having to go see Canada in Honduras less likely 

 

2 hours ago, Obinna said:

I've been thinking the same thing. People clowned us for struggling against them, but they had some respectable showings prior to Gold Cup, including playing Chile and Uruguay away and only conceeding 5 combined goals. That's a massive improvement for a team like Cuba. They've gotten better for sure, people just haven't realised it yet. 

I'm surprised we aren't seeing any of the Cubans in the CPL getting call-ups, especially since we have much better relations with the country. If the defectors in the US are getting calls, it would be easy to surmise that the ones in Canada should too.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

1 hour ago, VinceA said:

I'm surprised we aren't seeing any of the Cubans in the CPL getting call-ups, especially since we have much better relations with the country. If the defectors in the US are getting calls, it would be easy to surmise that the ones in Canada should too.

The ones getting calls that are playing their club footy in the USA never abandoned the team; they were already US based.

A more apt phrasing would be "foreign-based" or perhaps "expats" as @SpursFlu said.

Those who actually defect never get called again.

Edited October 13, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[VinceA]

3 minutes ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

The ones getting calls that are playing their club footy in the USA never abandoned the team; they were already US based.

A more apt phrasing would be "foreign-based" or perhaps "expats" as @SpursFlu said.

Those who actually defect never get called again.

Oh that changes things then. I thought Corrales had defected but that's not the case.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

1 minute ago, VinceA said:

Oh that changes things then. I thought Corrales had defected but that's not the case.

No, he applied for a U.S. visitor visa and got it; that's how he got into the country.

He never defected from a Cuban NT squad.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Corrales

 

[SpursFlu]

I read somewhere that they have an arrangement with players to play in certain Central American countries. I'm assuming Nicaragua are one of them. I didn't know defectors are allowed back but makes sense

Edited October 13, 2023 by SpursFlu

[Watchmen]

1 hour ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Those who actually defect never get called again.

Is it that they never get called, or do they never accept because they don't want to be back within the Cuban governments grasp?