The Dominican Republic will play this Wednesday, June 29, the most important game in the history of its football when it faces Jamaica for the quarterfinals of the 2022 Concacaf Men’s U20 Championship.
The winner of this commitment will advance to the semifinals of the contest, also to the 2023 FIFA World Cup in Indonesia and will also continue with options to fight for a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
For the Dominican it would be the first qualification for a FIFA World Cup.
The duel will take place at the Metropolitan Stadium in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, starting at 7:00 p.m. (Dominican time).
Sedofútbol arrives emotionally packed to the game against the Jamaicans after defeating El Salvador last Sunday in a challenge that represented a real give and take from start to finish and in which the Quisqueyan squad showed the strength of their attack and the courage necessary to recover the advantage that had been lost and win the match five goals by four.
The national cast faces this battle with real options to win and advance to the 2023 Indonesian World Cup, led by Inter Miami attacker Edison Azcona, who has contributed goals, assists and, above all, wisdom on the field in difficult minutes.
The Dominican offensive production has also gone through the boots of midfielder Ángel Montes De Oca, Diefry Sandy Mensú, Bryan More, Jason Yambatis, Yordy Álvarez, Adonis María Vargas, Kleffer Martes and Israel Boatwright – also counting the Qualifying Phase that he played in November last year and that brought it to the eighths and now to the quarterfinals-, which speaks of a great collective effort.
In addition, the group of 20 soccer players who are in Honduras fighting to reach the coveted and unprecedented ticket to the world cup is made up of 14 soccer players who make life in national soccer, both in the Dominican Soccer League, and in the National Tournament of Clubs, so they have a good rhythm of competition and six players who bring the experience acquired by military abroad.
It should be noted that the Dominican Republic reached this instance after winning Group B of the Concacaf U20 Qualifier that took place in November 2021 and in which it hosted. There they defeated Anguilla 6-0, 2-0 against Saint Martin, 2-0 over Belize and miraculously tied 2-2 against Saint Lucia – a match that they lost by two goals at 88′ when Yambatis’ discount arrived and at 90’+ 4′ Azcona scored the qualifying goal.
For its part, Jamaica has just finished third in the Group Phase of the 2022 Concacaf U20 Championship in zone H where it tied 1-1 with Costa Rica, then fell 5-0 to Honduras and defeated Antigua and Barbuda 2-0. . Already in the round of 16, they beat Haiti 2-1.
This Concacaf event is being broadcast through Espn for the entire Dominican Republic.