10 June 2024

Weekend full of joy

Out of three football championships on a team level that are scheduled to start this month in three different countries, two of them would kick-off next weekend.

For 30 days and nights Germany is going to be the main focus on the European continent. At the edition number 17, we are expecting to see 51 duels, and the whole competition would be held in 10 hospitality cities and on 10 stadia. Twenty three teams have played this event before, but only one would make its debut in 2024 (Georgia). Italy will try and defend the title that was won 3 years ago.

Round 1
14 June, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Germany - Scotland.

15 June, Saturday at 15.00 CEt: Hungary - Switzerland.
15 June, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Spain - Croatia.
15 June, Saturday at 21.00 CEt: Italy - Albania.

16 June, Sunday at 15.00 CEt: Poland - Netherlands.
16 June, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Slovenia - Denmark.
16 June, Sunday at 21.00 CEt: Serbia - England.

At the other side of the world the tiniest confederation from all 6 is organizing its own competition that is simply named as the Nations Cup that is going to be held in 2 countries. Originally 8 participants supposed to commence the eleventh edition in the Oceania region, however on 06 June New Caledonia has officially pulled out of the tournament because of the current crisis in the country (civil unrest). Therefore, the show will go on with 7 teams: group A with 3 of them would be situated in Vanuatu, while games from B are going to be staged in Fiji. Because of the known health reasons the 2020 edition was skipped (cancelled), thus the defending champion from 2016 is New Zealand. Majority of participants would have to be introduced to the public with the following layout.

Phase 1
15 June, Saturday at 06.00 CEt: Solomon islands - Vanuatu.

16 June, Sunday at 03.00 CEt: Tahiti - Samoa.
16 June, Sunday at 06.00 CEt: Papua New Guinea - Fiji.

Unstoppable guests continuing to shine

Qualifying duels for World Cup 2026 - North, Central America and Caribbean region, round 2, game 2 (for all teams written in continuation):

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - El Salvador 1:3 (neutral place)

Scorers: 0:1 09 Jairo Henriquez
               1:1 43 Oalex Anderson
               1:2 59 Rafael Tejada
               1:3 83 Nelson Bonilla

Dominica - Jamaica 2:3

Scorers: 0:1 30 Shamar Nicholson
               0:2 42 Kaheim Dixon
               0:3 79-pen Shamar Nicholson
               1:3 82 Javid George
               2:3 88 Troy Jules

Grenada - Costa Rica 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 09 Manfred Ugalde
               0:2 34 Alvaro Zamora
               0:3 70 Gerald Taylor Dosman

Barbados - Haiti 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 12 Louicius Don Deedson
               0:2 45+1 Duke Lacroix
               1:2 73 Niall Reid-Stephen
               1:3 84 Bryan Labissiere

Bermuda - Honduras 1:6

Scorers: 0:1 14 Kervin Arriaga
               1:1 45+4-pen Zeiko Lewis
               1:2 49 David Ruiz
               1:3 53 Edwin Rodriguez
               1:4 55 Luis Vega
               1:5 62 Andy Najar
               1:6 90 Bryan Rochez

Montserrat - Panama 1:3 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 0:1 39 Jovani Welch
               1:1 48 Kaleem Simon
               1:2 60 Jose Fajardo Nelson
               1:3 69 Jose Luis Rodriguez

Popularity of one as a number

Elimination games for World Cup 2026 - region Africa, round 1, game 04, night 1 out of 3:

Sao Tome e Principe - Liberia 0:1 (neutral arena)

Scorer: 0:1 89 (89.19) Sheikh Sesay

Namibia - Tunisia 0:0 (neutral location)

Djibouti - Ethiopia 1:1 (neutral terrain)

Scorers: 1:0 28 (28.05) Gabriel Dadzie
               1:1 30 (30.02) Minyelu Wondimi

Democratic Republic of Congo - Togo 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 06 (05.21) Meschack Elia

Mauritania - Senegal 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 27 (26.23) Habib Diallo

09 June 2024

Visiting delight

Qualifying duels for World Cup 2026 - North, Central America and Caribbean region, round 2, game 1 or 2 (for some teams):

British Virgin islands - Guatemala 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 23 Oscar Castellanos
               0:2 45+2 Rubio Rubin
               0:3 47-pen Jose Pinto

Anguilla - Suriname 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 10 (09.31) Tyrone Conraad
               0:2 61 (61.02) Shaquille Pinas
               0:3 75 (74.41) Tyrone Conraad
               0:4 87-own goal (86.55) Steven Austin

Cayman islands - Antigua and Barbuda 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 90+1 Joshwa Campbell

Bahamas - Trinidad and Tobago 1:7 (neutral place)

Scorers: 0:1 05 Malcolm Shaw
               0:2 14 Alvin Jones
               0:3 43 Duane Muckette
               0:4 45 Duane Muckette
               0:5 55 Reon Moore
               0:6 65 Malcolm Shaw
               0:7 84 Nathaniel James
               1:7 87 Peter Julmis

Belize - Nicaragua 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 39 Bancy Hernandez
               0:2 55-pen Juan Barrera
               0:3 65 Bancy Hernandez
               0:4 89-pen Jaime Jose Moreno Ciorciari

Aruba - Curacao 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 58 Juninho Bacuna
               0:2 90+6 Xander Severina

Better played on neutral location than home

Elimination games for World Cup 2026 - region Africa, round 1, game 03, night 4 out of 4:

Cameroon - Cape Verde 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 12 (12.06) Michael Ngadeu
               2:0 25 (24.22) Vincent Aboubakar
               2:1 36 (36.19) Jamiro Monteiro
               3:1 43-pen (43.04) Vincent Aboubakar
               4:1 53 (53.04) Nouhou Tolo

- Cape Verde had a penalty on 90+4 (93.23), but the 11 metre shot was perfectly saved from Kevin Lenini Pina.

Gambia - Seychelles 5:1 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 1:0 10 (09.44) Mohamed Badamosi
               1:1 14 (13.21) Ryan Henriette
               2:1 52-pen (51.52) Musa Barrow
               3:1 54 (54.14) Yankuba Minteh
               4:1 66 (65.30) Mohamed Badamosi
               5:1 78 (77.35) Adama Sidibeh