2012 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship

[Soccer9]

NEW YORK - CONCACAF announced Thursday that its Under-20 Women's Championship will be played in Panama from March 1-11, while its Under-17 Women's Championship will take place in Guatemala from May 2-13......

http://www.concacaf.com/page/Confede...519187,00.html



And no preparation or coach as yet for the U20's. Disappointing.

[Soccer9]

Tournament draw on Sunday:
http://www.concacaf.com/page/WUnder2...573788,00.html

Qualifyers start in 6 weeks... no coach announced yet and no camp. Seems like it will be last minute preparations. Unless they are waiting for Herdman to finish with Olympic qualifyers and then help out with the U20's.

[navycyr]

It looks like it will be real last minute improvisation. I never tought we would find ourselves six weeks from the tournament with apparently nothing done. Otherwise, I would have suggested a national U20 tournament during the Christmas vacations, expenses at the charge of participants, with the prize being to represent Canada with the addition of some players at key positions. I have seen that at provincial level and it gave good results in a national competition in a sport other than soccer. At least, you have good cohesion on the play. You also attract the best players you can see in a competitive environment for future development without disbursing any money ! I know it is crazy ! But I would say not that more than having nothing apparently going with the deadline getting closer and closer !

[Lord Bob]

I really, really hope preparation is going on behind the scenes.

I really, really hope so.

[Soccer9]

Apparently a coach has been chosen... so maybe we will hear something soon.

[Soccer9]

Canada gets drawn into a more difficult group, so not much room for mistakes. Hopefully we wont meet Mexico first!

CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship
Group A
Mexico
Canada
Haiti
Jamaica

Group B
Panama
United States
Guatemala
Cuba

[Soccer9]

I only heard rumours, so I would rather not say.
Girls have now been called into camp though; mid to end Feb in Costa Rica. We are on our way :-)

[Soccer9]

Another piece of interesting news on the 2012 Womens U20 WC ... originally given to Uzbekistan (??!); was recently taken away from them by FIFA; who is now looking for a new host. Japan has offered to host and what a welcome change that would be.

Not sure where I read this first... but it was mentioned also on the US Soccer website.

[munseahawk]

Another piece of interesting news on the 2012 Womens U20 WC ... originally given to Uzbekistan (??!); was recently taken away from them by FIFA; who is now looking for a new host. Japan has offered to host and what a welcome change that would be.

Not sure where I read this first... but it was mentioned also on the US Soccer website.

Japan was confirmed as the new hosts in mid-December.

http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/arch...d=1559251.html

[Soccer9]

Thanks for the article. Not quite official yet, but I presume the Japanese government will step-up and put up the guarantees needed.