CONCACAF teams set their sights on France 2019

• 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship starts this week
• Three-time universe champions USA looking to urge informal title
• Three-and-a-half subordinate spots to France 2019 adult for grabs

USA’s tour to fortifying their FIFA Women’s World Cupâ„¢ pretension starts this week, as a Stars and Stripes play horde to a 2018 CONCACAF Women’s Championship.

The three-time universe champions are looking to explain their mark for France 2019 from a tenth book of a informal championship. Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico are also aiming to lapse to women’s football’s showpiece event, carrying all seemed during a final universe finals in 2015.

The competition in brief:

When: 4 to 17 Oct 2018
Where: USA
Who: USA, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama (Group A); Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Cuba (Group B)
What’s during stake: Three-and-a-half places during subsequent year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.
How: After round-robin movement in a dual groups of 4 in Cary, North Carolina, and Edinburg, Texas, a tip dual teams from any organisation will allege to a knockout theatre of a foe in Frisco, Texas. The winners of both semi-finals will strech a championship final and validate for France 2019. The semi-final losers will competition a competition’s third-place match, with a leader claiming CONCACAF’s third subordinate berth, while a fourth-placed side will face Argentina from CONMEBOL in a play-off for a mark during subsequent year’s Women’s World Cup.

The favourites
Two of women’s football’s obvious teams, Canada and USA are approaching to competition for this year’s CONCACAF title, carrying been a usually dual teams to lift a prize on a prior 9 occasions. As a stream holders, a Stars and Stripes are aiming to be crowned informal champions for an rare eighth time.

USA manager Jill Ellis will be relying on knowledge to allege from Group A, as her 20-player patrol includes 11 players that led a side to their third universe pretension behind in 2015. North American rivals Mexico will demeanour to plea a Americans for a group’s tip spot, as they go in hunt of a third-straight tellurian finals berth.

Hosts of a final Women’s World Cup, Canada will design to tip Group B forward of Costa Rica, Cuba and Jamaica. Having taken over from John Herdman during a start of a year, manager Kenneth Heiner-Moller will muster a side that combines gifted youngsters with immeasurable care experience. Among those gifted players is Canada’s all-time heading goalscorer Christine Sinclair.

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