Some one should start a seperate thread about the Canada-sports discussion.
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Originally Posted by Arsenal14
What I'd like to see happen is the CSA asking CONCACAF to include us in the Central American zone for the purpose of Gold Cup qualifying.
Right now the Caribbean teams and Central American teams each play a regional tournament every two years with the top teams qualifying to the Gold Cup. The US, Mexico and Canada have automatic berths. This would give us some meaningful games against the Central American teams where if we play reasonably well we should still qualify. Right now they get 3 qualifiers from 7 teams (Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Belize). With our spot it would be four out of eight.
This would have a few benefits to Canada:
1. Extra games in Central America (the 2013 tournament is in Costa Rica)
2. Extra games against Central American teams
3. More experience in these high pressure "win to qualify" type games
4. More chances to cap tie potential defectors
5. A higher spot in the FIFA rankings and chance to be seeded for the next qualifying draw (these tournament results are why Cuba was seeded this time - they did well in the Caribbean qualifying while we were just playing friendlies).
6. More chances to have our team play. Period.
The benefit to the Central American teams would be an extra qualifying spot and likely some additional revenue if a Canadian broadcaster decides to show the games.
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This might backfire but I agree. Canada needs more games with these countries. Concacaf couldn't care less about Canada's requests though. Unless this request some how improves the USA's chances, it won't get any attention.
Canada should try and join UEFA
Hey! It's technically closer to Europe (Danish Greenland) then Central America!
