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SOCCER MEDIA REPORTS: CONCACAF OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION TO BE PLAYED IN MEXICO 14th November, 2007 From a CONCACAF Press Release At the conclusion of its Executive Committee meeting on Wednesday, CONCACAF announced that Mexico will host the 2008 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Final Round Qualification which will run from 2-13 April, 2008. The six-team tournament will be held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Chihuahua, Mexico with the
top two teams qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The 2008 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Final Round will include the defending champion, USA, along with North Zone representatives Canada and Mexico, recently qualified Central American side Costa Rica, plus two teams from the Caribbean. The Caribbean qualifiers will be decided from a pair of second round match-ups, as Puerto Rico meets Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba taking on Jamaica with the winners progressing to the CONCACAF Final Round. Once all the teams are confirmed for the tournament, CONCACAF will stage a draw for the first round groups as well as unveiling the complete schedule of matches. This will be the second CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Final Round with the last one held in Costa Rica with the USA and Mexico finishing first and second, respectively. They thereby qualified to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. At Syndey 2000 and Atlanta 1996, only the United States advanced from CONCACAF Canada's National Women's Team, whose title sponsor is Winners, has qualified for four-straight FIFA Women's World Cups. Canada's senior women's team is currently ranked ninth in the world by the recent FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings. The team is currently in phase one of their Olympic qualification residency program in Vancouver, BC. All rights reserved. All content copyrighted by their respective sources.
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