After reading a novel set in Belize, I pulled out of my map collection for my rotating display National Geographic map of Central America. And some of the historical bits on the back talked about how, when the region gained independence from Spain, the region that is Guatemala to Costa Rica could have been one country, but the elites in some of the five provinces insisted on retaining power and thus divided the colony (not unlike how the United States got saddled with Rhode Island and Delaware). Obviously, a unified Central American league and national team pool would be stronger than five (now seven, because Belize counts, right?), but these preliminary competitions for CA and the Caribbean are as good as we’ll get and frankly I’ll be surprised if the collective FAs don’t step on themselves and kill them off in five years.
(And I’m the kind of sicko who liked the old three-team groups; watching those last games to see who would get seeded where was just my kind of fun.)
After reading a novel set in Belize, I pulled out of my map collection for my rotating display National Geographic map of Central America. And some of the historical bits on the back talked about how, when the region gained independence from Spain, the region that is Guatemala to Costa Rica could have been one country, but the elites in some of the five provinces insisted on retaining power and thus divided the colony (not unlike how the United States got saddled with Rhode Island and Delaware). Obviously, a unified Central American league and national team pool would be stronger than five (now seven, because Belize counts, right?), but these preliminary competitions for CA and the Caribbean are as good as we’ll get and frankly I’ll be surprised if the collective FAs don’t step on themselves and kill them off in five years.
(And I’m the kind of sicko who liked the old three-team groups; watching those last games to see who would get seeded where was just my kind of fun.)