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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Gold Cup begins July 7 in Chicago

The 2015 Gold Cup will kick off July 7 in Dallas with host team US facing off against a yet to be determined opponent.  The USMNT's other Group A games (and the other pairings from the group) will be July 10 in Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA and July 13 in Kansas City.  While all of the teams participating are (basically*) known (*Honduras has to beat French Guyana in a playoff for the last spot), only the group number one seeds and their sites have been determined, with Mexico set to lead Group C and play July 9 in Chicago's Soldier Field, July 12 in Phoenix and July 15 in Charlotte.  Costa Rica is set to lead Group B and play July 8 at the Stub Hub Center in LA, July 11 in Houston and play the first ever Gold Cup game in Toronto, Canada July 14 (I have a feeling that Canada might "sneak" into this group somehow also).  The full groups will be drawn, and subsequent schedule fully set, sometime in January. The other seven teams set to compete (from qualifying in either the Carribean or Centroamercian tournaments) are Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad & Tobago.  Go to concacaf.com for more info and I will update as more is released.

As it stands, we are contemplating a Chicago-Phoenix-Kansas City triangle to catch two Mexico and one USA game...