Caribbean Nations Cup 2006-07

Infobox International Football Competition
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year = 2006-07
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country = Trinidad and Tobago
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dates = 2 September, 2006 – 9 January, 2007 (qualifiers)
12 January, 2007 - 23 January, 2007 (finals)
num_teams = 25
confederations = 1
finalists = 8
venues = 12
cities = 10
champion = Haiti
count = 1
second = Trinidad and Tobago
third = Cuba
fourth = Guadeloupe|local
matches = 72
goals = 251
attendance =
top_scorer = flagicon|Guyana Nigel Codrington (11 goals)
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updated = The Digicel Caribbean Cup 2007 is the most recent edition of the bi-annual Caribbean Cup, the finals of which were contested in Trinidad and Tobago between 12 January and 23 January 2007. The four semifinalists (Cuba, Guadeloupe, Haiti, and hosts Trinidad and Tobago) qualified for the 2007 edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. In all, 24 of the eligible countries participated (5 did not enter and 1 withdrew).

Haiti eventually won the tournament despite having to qualify for the finals through a playoff of third-place teams from the second round and finishing second in its final-round group. The Haitians beat eight-time champion and host Trinidad and Tobago in the final, although Trinidad was missing many of the European-based players that had helped the Soca Warriors qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Guadeloupe was the surprise of the tournament, as former French international Jocelyn Angloma came out of retirement to help the team advance to the semifinals, qualifying for its first Gold Cup in the process. Cuba continued its development into a regional power by finishing in third place.

Prize Money

*, as the winner, received US$120,000 (UK£64,022).
*, as the runner up, received US$70,000 (UK £37,350).
*, as the third-place team, received US$50,000 (UK £26,680).
*, as the fourth-place team, received US$30,000 (UK £16,009).
* Each of the ten host countries received a subsistence package of US$20,000 (UK £10,673). Additionally, the host of the Digicel Caribbean Cup Final received US$150,000 (UK £80,047) to compensate for the increased costs of holding the final round of the competition.

(UK £ values calculated on 28 September, 2006)

tage One

fb|TRI receive bye to final round. fb|ARU, fb|French Guiana, fb|MSR, fb|PUR and fb|Sint Maarten did not enter.

ummary

The first round produced some notable upsets. Guyana surprised many by dominating Group A, and Surinam qualified for the second round as well. Group host Netherlands Antilles finished last by capturing a lone draw. Group B did not go to form, either; though Barbados fulfilled widely held expectations by winning, host Antigua & Barbuda produced a minor shock by also making it out of the group at the expense of St. Kitts & Nevis. St. Kitts had a late penalty kick to be taken by Atiba Harris that if made would have eliminated Antigua & Barbuda in the group's final game, but the Antiguan goalkeeper saved the penalty. Group C went to form, save only that the British Virgin Islands withdrew before group play started. Bermuda expectedly dominated the group. The shocker of the round, though occurred in Group D, where host Jamaica, widely considered the best national footballing side in the Caribbean, did not advance to the second round. Jamaica lost their second game to St. Vincent & Grenadines 2-1. Playing in the final game on the group's last day knowing they had to defeat Haiti by 3 goals to qualify, Jamaica could only muster a 2-0 victory, meaning that St. Vincent & Grenadines pulled the upset and advanced to the second round based on goals scored. Despite their loss to Jamaica, Haiti won the group based on goal differential. Host Cuba won Group E, with the Bahamas advancing as well by defeating a surprisingly competitive Turks & Caicos team. In Group F, the French departments of Martinique and host Guadeloupe carried on easily, with the host winning the group.

Group A

Played in Netherlands Antilles at Stadion Ergilio Hato.

fb|VGB withdrew. Other Teams Awarded

footballbox
date = 27 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|DOM
score = Awarded (3-0)| report=
team2 = fb|VGB
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands----footballbox
date = 27 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|VIR
score = 0 - 6| report=
team2 = fb|BER
goals1 =
goals2 = Kwame Steede 1, 34
Domico Coddington 30, 53
John Barry Nusum 37
Keith Jennings 87
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Attendance: 150
Referee: Royon Small (Barbados)----footballbox
date = 29 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|VIR
score = Awarded (3-0)| report=
team2 = fb|VGB
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands----footballbox
date = 29 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|BER
score = 3 - 1 | report=
team2 = fb|DOM
goals1 = Anjaime Zuill 25
Darius Cox 48
Kwame Steede 55
goals2 = Jonathan Faña 85
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Attendance:
Referee:----footballbox
date = 1 October 2006
team1 = fb-rt|BER
score = Awarded (3-0)| report=
team2 = fb|VGB
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands----footballbox
date = 1 October 2006
team1 = fb-rt|VIR
score = 1 - 6 | report=
team2 = fb|DOM
goals1 =Bryce Pierre 7'
goals2 = Luis Corporan 14'
Jonathan Faña 25', 55', 82', 89'
Kerbi Rodriguez 87'
stadium = Lionel Roberts Park
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Attendance: 250
Referee: Lee Travis
(Trinidad & Tobago)

Group D

Played in Jamaica at Independence Park.

footballbox
date = 20 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|GLP|local
score = 1 - 0| report=
team2 = fb|Saint-Martin|local
goals1 = Jean Luc Lamanorne 85
goals2 =
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 1500
Referee: Martin Charles (Dominica)----footballbox
date = 20 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|DMA
score = 0 - 4 | report=
team2 = fb|MTQ
goals1 =
goals2 = Steeve Meslien pen 23
Girier Du Fornier 43
Johan Sourava 63
Augustin Saint Louis 85
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 1000
Referee: Francis Fanus (Saint Lucia)----footballbox
date = 22 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|MTQ
score = 1 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|Saint-Martin|local
goals1 = Judes Vaton 18
goals2 =
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 1200
Referee: Gilles Arthur (Saint Lucia)----footballbox
date = 22 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|GLP|local
score = 1 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|DMA
goals1 = Dominique Mocka 88
goals2 =
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 1100
Referee: Brian Willet (Antigua and Barbuda)----footballbox
date = 24 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|DMA
score = 0 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|Saint-Martin|local
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 500
Referee: Brian Willet (Antigua and Barbuda)----footballbox
date = 24 September 2006
team1 = fb-rt|GLP|local
score = 4 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|MTQ
goals1 = Ludovic Gotin 27, 60
Alain Vertot 54
Dominique Mocka 80
goals2 =
stadium = Stade René Serge Nabajoth
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Attendance: 2500
Referee: Charles Martin (Dominica)

tage Two

The top two teams from each first-stage group qualified for the second stage of the competition. Those teams were split into three groups of four teams, called Groups G, H and I. The top two teams in each of these three groups qualified for the finals with fb|TRI, making seven teams. The best third-place team from Groups G, H, and I qualified as the eighth team in the final competition. This was to have been determined by a single round-robin playoff between the three teams, to be called Group J; however, when Dominican Republic withdrew, the remaining two teams played a two-game series for the right to move on.

ummary

All three groups went largely to form. It was a wonderful round for host teams, with all three advancing and two winning their group. Host Barbados advanced easily out of Group G, only a tie with Bermuda marring their group performance. They were accompanied by St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Guyana proved perfect as hosts of Group H, and Guadeloupe also did well enough to advance. Finally, Cuba and host Martinique smashed the other two teams in Group I to move forward, with Cuba winning the group based on goal differential. The third-place teams (Bermuda, Dominican Republic, and Haiti) were to have been drawn together in Group J. However, Dominican Republic withdrew, leaving Bermuda and Haiti to contest a two-game set. After achieving a 2-0 win in the first match, Haiti were overwhelming favourites in the second match. With Haiti leading by two goals in stoppage time of the second half, a thrilling goal by Éliphène Cadet (to add to his goal in the first match) gave Haiti a 3-0 victory, a 5-0 aggreagte win, and with it the final spot in the final stage.

Group G

Played in Barbados at Barbados National Stadium.

footballbox
date = 8 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|HAI
score = 1 - 2| report=
team2 = fb|CUB
goals1 = Jean Baptiste Fritzon 87'
goals2 = Jenier Marquez Molina 20'
Lester More 77'
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Victor Stewart (Jamaica)----footballbox
date = 8 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|MTQ
score = 1 - 0| report=
team2 = fb|SUR
goals1 = Rodrigue Audel 61'
goals2 =
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Royon Small (Barbados)----footballbox
date = 10 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|CUB
score = 3 - 1 | report=
team2 = fb|SUR
goals1 = Yordinas Oropesa 4', 27'
Jaime Valencia 40' (pen)
goals2 = Sergio Aroepa 90'
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Howard Stennett (Jamaica)----footballbox
date = 10 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|MTQ
score = 1 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|HAI
goals1 = Xavier Bullet 3'
goals2 =
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Timothy H. Wood (St. Vin. & the Gren.)----footballbox
date = 12 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|HAI
score = 1 - 1 | report=
team2 = fb|SUR
goals1 = John Jacques Jamil 78' (pen)
goals2 = Vangellino Sastrodimedjo 75'
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: ?
Referee: ?----footballbox
date = 12 November 2006
team1 = fb-rt|MTQ
score = 0 - 0 | report=
team2 = fb|CUB
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Stade d'Honneur de Dillon
Fort-de-France, Martinique Attendance: ?
Referee: ?

Group J

With the withdrawal of fb|DOM, fb|HAI and fb|BER played each other twice. fb|HAI, as the winner of the series, advanced to the finals. The matches were played at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Trinidad & Tobago.

footballbox
date = 14 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|CUB
score = 1 - 2| report=
team2 = fb|GLP|local
goals1 = Osvaldo Alonso 68'
goals2 = Steve Bizacene 29'
Jocelyn Angloma 85'
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:footballbox
date = 14 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|GUY
score = 0 - 2| report=
team2 = fb|VIN
goals1 =
goals2 = Shandel Samuel 4'
Sean Glynn 86'
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:----footballbox
date = 16 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|GLP|local
score = 3 - 4| report=
team2 = fb|GUY
goals1 = Wilfrid Loiseau 45'+
Jean Luc Lambourde 54'
Fabien Raddas 87' (pen)
goals2 = Nigel Codrington 23' (pen), 59' (pen), 81'
Howard Lowe 65'
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:footballbox
date = 16 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|CUB
score = 3 - 0| report=
team2 = fb|VIN
goals1 = Lester More 26', 58'
Leonel Duarte 89'
goals2 =
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:----footballbox
date = 18 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|CUB
score = 0 - 0| report=
team2 = fb|GUY
goals1 =
goals2 =
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:footballbox
date = 18 January 2007
team1 = fb-rt|VIN
score = 0 - 1| report=
team2 = fb|GLP|local
goals1 =
goals2 = Dominique Mocka 14'
stadium = Manny Ramjohn Stadium
Marabella, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:

emi Finals

footballbox
date = January 20 2007
team1 = fb-rt|GLP|local
score = 1 - 3 | report=
team2 = fb|HAI
goals1 = Jean Luc Lambourde 83'
goals2 = Éliphéne Cadet 56'
Brunel Fucien 66'
Jean Baptiste Fritzon 76'
stadium = Hasely Crawford Stadium
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee: Roberto Moreno (PAN)footballbox
date = January 20 2007
team1 = fb-rt|TRI
score = 3 - 1 | report=
team2 = fb|CUB
goals1 = Jenier Molina 41' (og)
Gary Glasgow 57'
Densill Theobald 73'
goals2 = Leonel Duarte 76'
stadium = Hasely Crawford Stadium
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee:

Third Place Playoff

footballbox
date = January 23 2007
team1 = fb-rt|CUB
score = 2 - 1 | report=
team2 = fb|GLP|local
goals1 = Alain Cervantes 24'
Alain Cervantes 48'
goals2 = Fabian Raddas 52'
stadium = Hasely Crawford Stadium
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee: Neal Brizan (T&T)

Final

footballbox
date = January 23 2007
team1 = fb-rt|TRI
score = 1 - 2 | report=
team2 = fb|HAI
goals1 = Nigel Daniel 66'
goals2 = Alexandre Boucicaut 23'
Brunel Fucien 52'
stadium = Hasely Crawford Stadium
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Attendance:
Referee: Roberto Moreno (PAN)

Result

Qualifiers for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup

*fb|HAI
*fb|TRI
*fb|CUB
*fb|GLP|local

Top scorers

References

External links

* [http://www.digicelfootball.com/en/ Digicel Caribbean Cup 2007 Official Site]
* [http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/goldcup/ Caribbean Cup 2007 on CONCACAF Website]
* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/caribe07.html Digicel Cup 2007 at RSSSF]