PORT-AU-PRINCE — Arcahaie FC and Violette Athletic Membership will look to maintain the Caribbean Membership Championship trophy on Haitian soil as they play within the competitors within the Dominican Republic that begins as we speak.
To the gamers, successful the match can be an opportunity to revive a number of the pleasure that has been misplaced for the reason that nation plunged into chaos a number of years in the past.
“We’re going to symbolize the nation proudly, at this second of celebration of our flag,” Arcahaie FC coach David Chedson Thelemaque advised The Haitian Occasions. “In these troubled instances, we are going to defend our nation, soccer can assist ship one other image of the nation.”
Cavaly Affiliation Sportive was the primary Haitian membership to win the competitors final 12 months. Cavaly’s ahead Dorvil Gamael gained the highest scorer, greatest participant and greatest younger participant awards. The membership’s goalkeeper Emmanuel Saint Felix gained the match’s greatest goalkeeper award.
The workforce of town of the flag, Arcahaie FC, additionally known as “feux rouges” or Crimson Hearth will face Dominican workforce Atletico Vega Actual on Could 13 and Jamaican workforce Waterhouse on Could 16 within the group levels. In the meantime, Violette will tackle Dominican aspect Cibao FC on Could 13 and Jamaican membership Cavalier SC on Could 15.
Thelemaque, who’s aware of this competitors, traveled with 21 gamers, and is relying on every of them to present their greatest, he mentioned.
Violette certified for the Caribbean Membership Championship as a result of it gained the 2020 Haitian Nationwide Championship and Arcahaie as a result of it was the runner up.
Violette and Arcahaie will play within the Caribbean Membership Championship with out having performed a league recreation since July 2021 as a result of the Haitian league has been inactive since then.