Tuesday Edwing Charles, the Minister of Youth and Sports went to the airport to encourage the Grenadières of the National Women's Selection when leaving the country to San Juan (Puerto Rico), to participate in the first qualifying phase of the women's football tournament for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Minister Charles, who handed Grenadière our bi-color, asking them to defend our national colors by taking part in this pre-Olympic CONCACAF tournament "with passion and determination" in order to obtain the qualification for the next round.

Charles took the opportunity to remind them that all the authorities were behind them, despite the current situation and the difficulties related to the decision of the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) to withdraw from Haiti the host of the matches of Group C of this phase of the playoffs because of the socio-political unrest and insecurity of recent weeks https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28892-icihaiti-og-tokyo-2020-the-fhf-confirms-the-decision-of-concacaf-and-its-consequences.html

Note that our Grenadières will face Suriname Thursday, October 3 and Puerto Rico Monday, October 7.

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28892-icihaiti-og-tokyo-2020-the-fhf-confirms-the-decision-of-concacaf-and-its-consequences.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28886-haiti-olympics-tokyo-2020-haiti-will-not-host-group-c-matches-due-to-insecurity.html

HL/ BF/ HaitiLibre