Canada advances to round of 16 at CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Championship
Canada superior to the spherical of 16 on the CONCACAF males’s’ Under-17 Championship with a 2-0 win over Barbados on Monday.
Liam MacKenzie scored within the twenty first minute and Alessandro Biello transformed from the penalty spot seven minutes later at Estadio Pensativo.
The Canadians wrap up pool play on Wednesday in opposition to the United States in a match to determine prime spot in Group F. The Americans, who beat Canada 4-0 within the semifinal of the 2019 CONCACAF event, improved to 2-0-0 with a 3-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago later Monday.
Canada opened play Saturday with 3-2 win over Trinidad whereas the U. S. blanked Barbados 5-0.
“We will be more than happy with the primary two matches,” stated Canadian coach Andrew Olivieri. “As essential because the outcomes have been, the boys have been capable of put collectively two stable successful performances with some clear progress from our pre-tournament pleasant by these first two group matches.
“We have to give them some real credit for the attitude they’ve showed since our first camp in October. There’s a clear desire to get better every day and they know there’s work to do if we’re going to achieve our goal here in Guatemala.”
Biello’s father is Mauro Biello who doubles as an assistant coach with the Canadian senior males’s staff and director of Canada Soccer’s under-18 to under-23 program. Mauro Biello received 4 caps for Canada as a participant.
Alessandro Biello, a midfielder who’s a part of the CF Montreal academy, can be the nephew of former Canadian worldwide Nick De Santis.
MacKenzie is with the Vancouver Whitecaps academy.
The three prime groups in every of the 4 opening-round teams advance to the knockout part. They will be a part of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic within the spherical of 16. Those 4 groups superior straight from CONCACAF males’s U-17 qualifying play.
The 20-team event, which runs by Feb. 26, will ship 4 groups to the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru in November. The world championship was initially slated for 2021 however was postponed due to the pandemic.
Canada has been to seven of the previous 18 males’s U-17 World Cups, internet hosting the occasion in 1987. It has by no means superior previous the group stage together with final outing in Brazil in 2019 when it went 0-3-0.
Mexico received the CONCACAF U-17 Championship in 2019, defeating the U.S. 2-1 after further time within the last at Bradenton, Fla. It was the Mexicans’ eighth title at this age degree.
