The third round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying gets underway on Friday with Cuba vs. Canada. Honduras and Panama play the most interesting match of the round.
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ARLINGTON, TX - JUNE 3: A Mexico soccer fan stands up through a sun roof of a car waving the Mexican flag before a soccer game against Brazil at Cowboys Stadium on June 3, 2012 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Wade/Getty Images) Getty ImagesGuyana has made it to the third round of CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying. Yes, Guyana. They are actually one of the 12 best teams in North America and the Caribbean. Even though they’re technically in South America. They beat out 2006 World Cup qualifiers and regular hexagonal-makers Trinidad and Tobago to make it this far. Really.
About half of Guyana’s team plays domestically, with some of their other top players plying their trade in Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico. Seriously, a team whose best players play for average teams in Trinidad and Tobago beat out Trinidad and Tobago. I can’t get over how ridiculous this is.
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Getty ImagesBecause CONCACAF is all that is just and right with the world, Cuba got set up with the best teams from Pot 3. Have fun, guys! Cuba and Canada play the first game of the day, at 2 p.m. ET.
The United States are in action against Antigua and Barbuda, whose national team is decent by island nation standards because half their team plays for Antigua Barracuda FC in USL Pro. The USMNT should still steamroll them. In what will likely be an even bigger steamrolling, Mexico play Guyana. In matches that might actually have some bearing on who gets to the hexagonal, Costa Rica plays El Salvador, Honduras plays Panama and Jamaica plays Guatemala.
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