Global Courant 2023-04-14 19:00:36
The Guatemalan National Team won group D of League B, of the League of Nations, which gave it promotion to League A and direct qualification to the next Gold Cup 2023, where today, starting at 1:00 p.m. , Concacaf will make the draw.
The event will take place at SoFi Stadium, which will host the event for the first time and where the final will be held on July 16. The Gold Cup draw will be attended by the president of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Soccer Confederation and FIFA vice president, Víctor Montagliani, as well as the technical directors of the teams, including Luis Fernando Tena and Salvador Reyes, coach and assistant of the Bicolor.
In eight drums will be the spheres with the names of each participating team, and from five to eight will be located those of groups A, B, C and D.
Based on the Concacaf ranking of March 31, 2023, the 12 teams that secured a direct place in the group stage of the tournament have been divided into pots 1-3, as follows: pot 1: Mexico, United States, Costa Rica and Canada; drum 2: Panama, Haiti, Jamaica and Guatemala; and hype 3: Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba and Nicaragua.
The other four group stage participants, including the three preliminaries winners, will be placed in pot four, as follows: pot 4: Qatar, Preliminary Winner 7, Preliminary Winner 8 and Preliminary Winner 9.
The teams that will seek these places are Suriname, Martinique, Curaçao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Sint Maarten, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Puerto Rico.
According to the draw regulations, the teams from pot 1 will be the head of the group and were pre-assigned as follows: Group A, United States (current champion); Group B, Mexico (best in the ranking); Group C, Costa Rica; and Group D, Canada.
The national team will seek to play a good role in the regional tournament of Concacaf teams. (Free Press Photo: PL Newspaper Library)
The draw for the group stage will begin by placing the seeded teams from pot 1 into their pre-assigned groups, using the pre-assigned group spheres from pot 5.
The draw will continue with the spheres from drum 2 and determining the group of each team with a sphere from drum 6. This procedure will be repeated for all the spheres from drums 3 and 4, using the group spheres from drums 7 and 8.
Aztec domain.
• Mexico: it is the country that has won the Gold Cup the most times, with 11 titles.
• Canada: has been the only country, apart from Mexico and the United States, that has won the Gold Cup.
• Guatemala: its best participation in a gold cup was in 1996, when it finished in fourth place, and a title appeared in 1967 and two runners-up in 1965 and 1969, when the tournament was called the CONCACA Nations Championship
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