– Golden Jaguars begin quest for
Caribbean Football Cup glory today
From Emmerson
Campbell in St Lucia
The national football team the Golden Jaguars will begin their quest for redemption today when they tackle St Vincent and the Grenadines in their first Group Two game for this year’s Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Championships here at the Beausejour Stadium in St. Lucia.
The national team will look to bounce back from their 2014 World Cup Qualifiers exit and claw their way back to their winning ways in the first game of the scheduled double header at 17:00hrs.
The other game which will kick off at 19:00hrs will see the other Group Two foes hosts St Lucia and Curacao tackling each other.
Guyana will tackle Curacao on Tuesday followed by the host on Thursday.
Following the historic third round World Cup Qualifier berth, the Jaguars will also look to qualify for the CFU Cup finals for the first time in history.
The winners from each of the five groups along with the runners-up from Groups One to Three will advance to the second round, while the first runners-up from either Group Four or Group Five also will advance.
The second round will comprise three groups of four teams with Grenada, Guadeloupe and Cuba seeded in one of the groups.
The top two teams from each second-round group will advance to the finals from December three to 16 in Antigua & Barbuda with the host nation and five-time defending champion Jamaica. Four teams will qualify for next year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Already through to the next round are Group One winner Haiti and runner-up Puerto Rico as well as Martinique and Suriname.
