These guys aren't affiliated with FIFA. Hell, these guys aren't even technically affiliated with CONCACAF. Instead they are a UEFA (They are a region of France, believe me I did my homework) team playing in a CONCACAF tourney, and honestly, showing much more heart than some of CONCACAF's World Cup regulars (i.e. Costa Rica and Mexico) and beat a team making a strong case for it's 2010 World Cup bid (Canada).
I just watched their match against Honduras, which they won, 2-1. They by no means have been playing amazing tactical football, nor have they been getting lucky (excluding that embarrassing open goal miss by Ivan Guerrero). They just had 2 chances to score, and they took both of them and put 2 on the scoreboard. They escaped the second half with the lead 2-0, and they played a defensive kind of football in the second half and it for the most part, served it's purpose. They stopped a team that I previously thought to be one of the top in the tourney in terms of showing in group play.
These guys will probably get torn apart by Mexico in the semi-final, but hell the fact some little island in the Caribbean can make the semi-finals at the Gold cup is quite amazing. So to top it off, these guys aren't the best football players, but they damn sure have plenty more heart than some of the teams that were predicted to go MUCH farther than they are right now. Just a little note, I pray to whatever being, if any, is up there that Taylor Twellman is watching and taking notes on this teams finishing ability right now.
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Guadeloupe is not a UEFA team, they are a full member of CONCACAF and has been since 1964.
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