As much fun as it is to only focus on the great show the US put on yesterday, there were ten other
Concacaf Qualifiers over the weekend. So how did they turn out? Most of them went as expected, but
there were a couple shocks.
Trinidad and Tobago 1-2 Bermuda - T&T get shocked at home by Bermuda.
Canada advanced to the semifinals of World Cup qualifying in the North and Central American and
Caribbean region, defeating St. Vincent and the Grenadines 4-1 Friday night. Dwayne De Rosario and
Ali Gerba scored two goals each for Canada, which won the home-and-home, total-goals series on 7-1
aggregate.
Canadian men's soccer coach Dale Mitchell has named the 19-players he will use for their 2010 World Cup qualifying matches against Saint Vincent & the Grenadines. The Canadians are looking to reach the finals for the first time since 1986.
Here is their roster:
GK (2): Greg Sutton (Toronto FC), Pat Onstad (Houston Dynamo)
D (6): Jim Brennan (Toronto FC), Mike Klukowski(Club Brugge KV), André Hainault (Sparta Praha), Ugo Ihemelu (Colorado Rapids), Adrian Cann (Vancouver Whitecaps), Richard Hastings(Inverness CT)
M (7): Adrian Serioux (FC Dallas), Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna),Paul Stalteri (Fulham FC),Marcel de Jong (Roda JC), Issey Nakajima-Farran (FC Nordsjælland), Atiba Hutchinson (FC København), Patrice Bernier (FC Kaiserslautern)
F (4): Tomasz Radzinski (Skoda Xanthi), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo), Ali Gerba (FC Ingolstadt), Rob Friend (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
The Canadians play in Kingston this Sunday and then head home to Montreal for the second leg next Friday (20 June).
