2012 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship

[Saviola7]

Canada wins the first game 6-0. Excellent start!

[The Ref]

Mexico coached by Leonardo Cuellar wins 2-0 over Trinidad and Tobago coached by Pellerud.

[The Ref]

Watching these U17 games on concacaf.tv and seeing totally empty stadium in Guatemala, I wonder why would a country want to host a tournament when nobody shows up and hence I assume there is no revenue from public attendance.

[The Ref]

Our National Women team U17 finished second behind the U.S. in the Concacaf qualifiers for the U17 World Cup. Canada was the defending champion but the U.S. beat us 1-0 in the final. The third country qualified was Mexico under the direction of the old fox, Leonardo Cuellar. The U.S. team plays very effective soccer and shows a good coach behind them.

[Vic]

“We knew it was going to be a very difficult game going into it,” U.S. U-17 Women’s National Team head coach Albertin Montoya said. “That’s a credit to both teams. Canada threw everything at us, but we defended very well. I thought we were the better team in the first half, but in the second half Canada really came at us and it’s a credit to our backs who made the plays when they needed to.”

It's not often an American team is outshot. A pretty exceptional result given our 10% player/gene pool and funding. We are out-performing US Soccer at identifying and grooming young prodigies.

Sounds like Mexico is getting better at U17 too which is great for CONCACAF.