Strongly impacted by the passage of Hurricane Irma just a year ago, Saint-Martin footballers could not find their favorite sport until six months later, forced to rest for half a season.
At the bedside of football, the League of Saint-Martin mobilized to launch in March 2018, an ambitious plan to revitalize Saint-Martin football, whose time is in the balance, before turning to challenges as important as 'exciting ...
FIFA referee training
And it must be said that the cooperation agreement signed with FIFA on March 2, 2017 in Zurich, at the headquarters of the world body, was a strong signal of hope sent to all the inhabitants and football enthusiasts of the island. In addition to participation in FIFA congresses and valuable financial assistance, the Saint-Martin league has also obtained the guarantee of technical support in terms of coaching educators and referees, including a refereeing training session at Haiti, from October 17 to 21, 2018, and will benefit a group of local technicians.
CONCACAF Nations League, here we are!
On the field side, all the spotlights are fixed on the senior selection whose entry into the new planetary competition contested in each confederation, will take place during a hot derby against Guadeloupe. Kick-off: next September 11 at 16 p.m. on the island of Anguilla, at the Raymond Gordon Ernest Guishard technical Center. And if we are to believe the main coach of the Saint-Martin selection, David Baltase, “everything has been done to allow our selection to progress, reduce the gap with other competing Caribbean nations and present themselves D-Day with the ambition to be competitive. The establishment of rules of life and play, the learning of the concept of collective, the awareness by the players of the requirement of selection and competition, as well as the programming of no less than six friendly matches of preparation, are all foundations on which Saint-Martin football continues to rebuild itself, even if it must be recognized that the lack of means in terms of infrastructure has forced us to continually adapt ”.
Youth selections surprise and hope
Engaged in Santo Domingo from August 4 to 12, at the international challenge of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) alongside 28 other nations, the Saint-Martin selection U14 achieved a very good performance by ranking 2nd in its pool behind Saint Lucia certainly, but in front of Santo Domingo and especially on an equal basis with Puerto Rico, which she will beat even on the score of 1-0. And these performances are even to be raised to the rank of feat when it comes to comparing the reservoirs of population between Santo Domingo and Saint Martin (13 million against 35), or even the number of clubs of licensees between Saint Lucia and Saint-Martin, 000 to 89. While waiting to see this young and talented generation at the big CONCACAF championship organized in Florida in the summer of 10, the U2019 and U17 selections will be preparing for Martinique from October 20 to 22 next, a preparation that will lead the U26s to Bradenton, Florida, from November 20 to 1, to try at the CONCACAF tournament to qualify for the first time in their history at the FIFA U21 World Cup.
"Better, Bigger, Beyond", "Better, Bigger, Beyond", a slogan displayed by the Saint Martin Football League and its president Fabrice Baly, which shows us that through the substantive work of all the components Island football (leaders, staff, players, supporters), promoting the quality of the promising results recorded, we have gone from words to deeds, and especially since the disaster of last September, thanks to the game and football, pleasure and emotions… And we want more!
This is all the evil that we can wish for the authorities of Saint-Martin football at the start of the 2018-2019 season! _AF
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