The US Open Cup is in full swing at the midway point of the month-long, four-round blitz that will take the field of 64 down to eight. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Amway Canadian Championship crowned a winner and this weekend the Caribbean Football Union will reduce the field down to the final group for the championship round.
Both tournaments will send representatives on to this summer's CONCACAF Champions League while the Open Cup winner will join the fray for next year's CCL. And if Puerto Rico Islanders get at least a draw Friday evening in the Cayman Islands, at least one club from the North American lower divisions will advance yet again, possibly two, from the CFU.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday, February 25, 2011
CFU Club Championship Days Away
The Caribbean Football Club Champions Cup is just around the corner, kicking off March 9 with the First Round. Among the clubs involved in the tournament are USL Pro newcomer River Plate FC of Puerto Rico and their rival Puerto Rico Islanders of the NASL. The tournament concludes March 29, determining the three clubs that will advance to the CONCACAF Champions League
The Islanders, veterans of the CCL and defending CFU champions, enter the event in the Second Round as the lone team seeded with a bye. They will face the winner of the series between St Lucia's Northern United All-Stars and Suriname's Walking Boyz Co.
River Plate's opening series pits the club against Bodden Town from the Cayman Islands. A year ago, the Puerto Rican side performed well in the tournament, but had the misfortune of being drawn into a difficult group in the Second Round which featured San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad & Tobago. After sweeping group play with a 12-2 aggregate score in three games versus Racing of Haiti and a pair of Antigua & Barbuda clubs, River Plate drew 1-1 with Alpha United (Guyana) and were edged, 1-0, by Jabloteh, who went on to qualify for the Champions League a second consecutive time.
The Islanders, veterans of the CCL and defending CFU champions, enter the event in the Second Round as the lone team seeded with a bye. They will face the winner of the series between St Lucia's Northern United All-Stars and Suriname's Walking Boyz Co.
River Plate's opening series pits the club against Bodden Town from the Cayman Islands. A year ago, the Puerto Rican side performed well in the tournament, but had the misfortune of being drawn into a difficult group in the Second Round which featured San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad & Tobago. After sweeping group play with a 12-2 aggregate score in three games versus Racing of Haiti and a pair of Antigua & Barbuda clubs, River Plate drew 1-1 with Alpha United (Guyana) and were edged, 1-0, by Jabloteh, who went on to qualify for the Champions League a second consecutive time.
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