Greenland has utilized to grow to be a member of Concacaf, the governing physique for soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, the Soccer Affiliation of Greenland stated on Tuesday.
Greenland can be the forty second member of the continental affiliation if permitted.
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“Our utility for membership in Concacaf marks a major step ahead for our ambitions to compete at a better stage,” Greenland nationwide soccer group supervisor Morten Rutkjaer stated in an announcement.
“We have now labored onerous to get right here and I’m satisfied that that this can encourage our gamers and develop our soccer tradition.”
Greenland’s soccer governing physique stated it had begun a strategic collaboration with the Icelandic soccer union to bolster this system’s worldwide ambitions and to assist run residence video games.
The appliance to Concacaf was formally submitted on Might 13.
Dwelling to some 56,000 folks, Greenland would surpass some present Concacaf nations in inhabitants, together with Anguilla and Montserrat.
“By way of our connections among the many present member international locations in Concacaf, we’ll increase our information and community, in order that we all know what to arrange for with all nationwide groups and membership groups,” stated Rutkjaer.
On the lads’s aspect, Concacaf has lengthy been dominated by the USA males’s nationwide group and Mexico, who will co-host the 2026 World Cup alongside Canada.
Concacaf held its first ever ladies’s Gold Cup earlier this 12 months, with the U.S. rising victorious.
Data from Reuters contributed to this report.