World Cup Soccer In Cayman Islands

Well it’s finally here! The Cayman World Cup of Football starts today, 6 February, and we have entered our own team – Africa. Yes Africa, is not a country, but we decided to go in as Africa, because our team consists of Zimbabweans, Kenyans, Nigerians and one guy from Trinidad. In true African form, we were not able to agree on any particular country so the compromise was to call the team Africa and come up with an African flag.

Anyway, having successfully navigated through this potentially hot political potato of name-choosing, we managed to have a successful training session last night. The fact that, we all play 11-a-side soccer against each every Sunday has enabled to pick a team of 15 relatively good players for the five-a-side tournament to be held at King’s sports complex in Prospect, Grand Cayman. Tonight is the opening tournament, which is a “grand” occasion for the soccer loving residents here. The tournament will be broadcast live on the net and it will also be given adequate press coverage here. Check out the Cayman World Cup website for further information on live broadcasts.

Africa’s first match is tonight at 9 pm against Canada, then tomorrow we play Scotland, Honduras and England who are all in our group. There are two groups of 4 teams and only the top 2 teams in each group will qualify for the semi finals on Sunday, with the final being played late on the same day. All that said, I will definitely keep you informed of our progress… Go Team Africa !!!