CFU Club Champions Cup Update #2

By: BoriQa | March 29th, 2009

Tonight was the end of the Islanders‘ sister team Sevilla Puerto Rico’s dream in the CFU (Caribbean Football Union) Club Champions Cup, as the 2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League (PRSL) champions lost on the road 2-0 to the Greenbay Hoppers in St. John’s, Antigua. The Hoppers won the aggregate by a 5-3 score.

A goal by Tamarley Thomas on the 15′ minute and another by Kelly Frederick on the 66th (Frederick’s third goal against Sevilla in the tournament), were enough to dismiss the 1st PRSL champion ever from their first international competition.

In other results, on Thursday March 26 both Inter Moengo Tapoe and W. Connection qualified to the next round of the CFU Champions Cup.

The W. Connection from Trinidad & Tobago gave Centre Bath Estate (Dominica) another trumping, this time 12-1, to move on to the next round with a whipping 17-1 agregate.

On the other hand, in spite of a 1-0 loss for InterMoengo Tapoe at home to Curaçao’s CSD Barber, the Surinamese team moved on to the next round, on account of their 3-1 win in the 1st leg, which gave them a 3-2 advantage in the aggregate score. InterMoengo Tapoe will face the 2007-08’s CFU Champions Cup 4th place Semifinalist San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad & Tobago in the 1st leg of the quarter finals on April 13th.

Also tonight, the Haitian Cavaly Sportif defeated 1-0 the SV Britannic on the road in Aruba to eliminate the Dutch team from the tournament. Cavaly Sportif moves on to the quarterfinals with a 6-0 aggregate score, and will face the Trinidadian W. Connection in the next round.

Haiti’s Tepete FC defeated Alpha United 2-0 to reach the next round of Caribbean Club Champions Cup on Sunday April 5th. The 2nd leg was delayed one week due to air-travel difficulties by the Guyanese team. The teams tied 1-1 in the 1st leg of the match. Tempete will face the Green Hoppers from Antigua in the quarter finals on April 13th.

The Puerto Rico Islanders, 3rd place in the last CFU Cup, received a bye in the quarterfinals round and were given a spot directly into the semifinals, and will await for the three quarter final winners for the semifinals draw. The single-game semifinals will be played on May 15 in Trinidad. The final and third-place match will be also be played in Trinidad on May 17, with the top three teams in the CFU Club Champions Cup qualifying to the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League.