Global Courant 2023-04-15 01:56:35
California, United States.
The Honduran National Team learned its way through the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup this Friday after the draw for the group stage that took place at the SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, California, United States, and which led to great confrontations.
With the Bicolor coach, Diego Vázquez, in the front row and the historic Honduran scorer Carlos Pavón participating in the draw, Honduras was squared in the ‘group of death’, group B, along with Mexico, Haiti and Qatar (guest of the Concacaf).
The Catracha team will relive that great duel against an archrival such as Mexico and will face off again with the Qatari squad, which beat them 0-2 in the 2021 edition of the most important tournament in our region.
In Group A, the United States, current champion of the tournament after defeating Mexico in the final of the 2021 edition, will face Jamaica, Nicaragua and the winner of preliminary 9.
In Group C, the teams from Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador star in a Central American zone. They will be joined by the winner of preliminary 9.
Finally, Canada will start as the rival to beat in a group D that also includes Guatemala, Cuba and a combination of the preliminary rounds.
The first two places in each group will advance to the final phase.
SoFi Stadium, which hosted the Super Bowl in 2022 and where the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers usually play their NFL games, will be the venue for the final.
THIS IS HOW THE GROUPS OF THE GOLD CUP 2023 WERE:
GROUP A:
USA
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Preliminary Winner 9
B GROUP:
Mexico
Haiti
Honduras
Qatar
GROUP C:
Costa Rica
Panama
The Savior
Preliminary Winner 8
GROUP D:
Canada
Guatemala
Cuba
Preliminary Winner 7
The group stage of the Gold Cup will begin on June 24, but from the 16th the preliminary rounds will be held between 12 teams that will fight for the last three places in the tournament.
Concacaf also raffled this Friday the first pairings of those preliminary rounds: Trinidad and Tobago-Guadeloupe, Martinique-Saint Lucia, Curaçao-Saint Kitts and Nevis, French Guiana-Saint Martin, Suriname-Puerto Rico and Guyana-Grenada.
The six winners of those matches will meet in a second preliminary round from which the last three national teams will emerge for the group stage.
This is how the crosses of the Preliminaries were formed:
Concacaf will announce the full schedule, including the stadiums assigned per match, ticket information and other details in the coming days after the official draw for the tournament.
The 15 stadiums that will host the Gold Cup matches:
• AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX (2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2021)
• Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC (2011,2015, 2019)
• Soldier Field, Chicago, IL (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019)
• TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, OH (first time venue)
• DRV PNK Stadium, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2021)
• State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ (2009, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
• Red Bull Arena, Harrison, NJ (2013, 2017, 2019)
• NRG Stadium, Houston, TX (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2019, 2021)
• Shell Energy Stadium, Houston, TX (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
• SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA (first-time venue and final venue)
• Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV (2021)
• Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego, CA (first time venue)
• Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA (2017)
• CITYPARK, St. Louis, MO (first time venue)
• BMO Field, Toronto, Canada (2015)
