Comments on: Know Your Opponent: Cuba Edition http://www.soccerticketsonline.com/know-your-opponent-cuba-edition/ Premier League, Champions League, and MLS Tickets Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:28:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Walter Lippmann http://www.soccerticketsonline.com/know-your-opponent-cuba-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-2031 Walter Lippmann Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:12:41 +0000 http://www.soccerticketsonline.com/?p=749#comment-2031 Readers here might enjoy seeing the first notes in the Cuban newspaper GRANMA had to day this morning. Granma was the boat which took Fidel Castro and his friends from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 to begin the second armed phase of the Cuban Revolution. Anyway, today's GRANMA tells its readers: World Cup Qualifying: US vs. Cuba in Havana MIGUEL HERNANDEZ miguel.hm@granma.cip.cu The first US soccer team in 61 years to visit Cuba will take on the national squad at the Pedro Marrero Stadium in Havana on Saturday, 8:00 p.m. as part of World Cup qualifying play. CUBAN FANS ARE CONFIDENT IN STRIKER LINARES’ ABILITY TO SCORE Cuban soccer authorities said that tickets are already on sale at the Pedro Marrero and Ramon Fonst Stadiums. Cuba and the United States have not faced each other in World Cup qualifying since 1949 when they met twice (1-1 and 5-2 in favor of the US) during a tournament held in Mexico, DF. The teams also met during the Pan American Games and the CONCACAF Gold Cup which since 1998 has been held on US fields. During the last decade, results have clearly favored the US. The closest game was in 2002 in Pasadena that ended with the US winning 1-0 after a controversial penalty was called against Da Marcus Beasley who still plays on the national team coached under Brad Bradley. Cuba was the first Caribbean nation to play in a World Cup, in France 1938, their only appearance. Afterwards, their world presence was reduced to their under-17 team that appeared in Word Cups in 1989 and 1991. Readers here might enjoy seeing the first notes in the Cuban newspaper GRANMA had to day this morning. Granma was the boat which took Fidel Castro and his friends from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 to begin the second armed phase of the Cuban Revolution.

Anyway, today’s GRANMA tells its readers:

World Cup Qualifying: US vs. Cuba in Havana

MIGUEL HERNANDEZ
miguel.hm@granma.cip.cu

The first US soccer team in 61 years to visit Cuba will take on the national squad at the Pedro Marrero Stadium in Havana on Saturday, 8:00 p.m. as part of World Cup qualifying play.

CUBAN FANS ARE CONFIDENT IN STRIKER LINARES’ ABILITY TO SCORE

Cuban soccer authorities said that tickets are already on sale at the Pedro Marrero and Ramon Fonst Stadiums.

Cuba and the United States have not faced each other in World Cup qualifying since 1949 when they met twice (1-1 and 5-2 in favor of the US) during a tournament held in Mexico, DF.

The teams also met during the Pan American Games and the CONCACAF Gold Cup which since 1998 has been held on US fields.

During the last decade, results have clearly favored the US. The closest game was in 2002 in Pasadena that ended with the US winning 1-0 after a controversial penalty was called against Da Marcus Beasley who still plays on the national team coached under Brad Bradley.

Cuba was the first Caribbean nation to play in a World Cup, in France 1938, their only appearance. Afterwards, their world presence was reduced to their under-17 team that appeared in Word Cups in 1989 and 1991.

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