Sunday evening, 4 members of the Haitian women's team including two players, Ruthny Mathurin (USA) and Danielle Etienne (USA), were notified of the resumption of their flight to Auckland aboard the plane of "Air New Zealand” after the passage of Cyclone Gabrielle https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-38839-icihaiti-flash-new-zealand-hurricane-gabrielle-affects-the-regrouping-of-our-grenadieres.html

Having left New York on Saturday evening, their plane was to land in Auckland, but was forced to divert from its route due to weather conditions and land in the Cook Islands (4 hours by plane from the city of Auckland) where these 4 members and dozens of other passengers spent the day there before being notified in the evening by the staff of their hotel "Edge Water Resort" of the departure of the plane scheduled for 9:00 a.m. local time on Monday February 13 .

The resumption of flights to Auckland means that the other Grenadières and members of the team stranded in Europe or North America by this weather episode, have also received this notification and will fly to New Zealand and join the hotel of the team where the first 6 arrivals are already installed : Lara Sophia Larco, Milan Raquel Pierre Jérôme, Nérilia Mondésir, Kethna Louis, Roselord Borgella and Batcheba Louis.

Our Grenadières must compete in the qualifying play-offs and win their 2 matches to obtain one of the three remaining tickets for the 2023 FIFA Australia/New Zealand Women's World Cup (from July 20 to August 20, 2023) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38124-haiti-australia-and-new-zealand-confirmed-schedule-for-the-2023-fifa-women-s-world-cup.html

List of the 20 Grenadières selected :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38802-haiti-intercontinental-play-offs-d-10-allocation-of-genadieres-bib-numbers.html

Saturday February 18, 2023 : our Grenadières will play their first qualifying match for the 2023 FIFA World Cup against the "Lionesses" of Senegal at the North Harbor Stadium in Auckland, for the semi-final of Group B will be seen in Haiti on February 17 at 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 : in case of victory against Senegal, our Grenadières will face the "Reds" of Chile in the final, still in Auckland, for one of the 3 remaining tickets for this women's world championship. Fifa.

In case of qualification for the World Cup Haiti will find itself in Group D with England, Denmark and the Republic of China as opponents https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38124-haiti-australia-and-new-zealand-confirmed-schedule-for-the-2023-fifa-women-s-world-cup.html

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-38839-icihaiti-flash-new-zealand-hurricane-gabrielle-affects-the-regrouping-of-our-grenadieres.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38802-haiti-intercontinental-play-offs-d-10-allocation-of-genadieres-bib-numbers.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38832-haiti-intercontinental-play-offs-our-grenadieres-in-new-zealand.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38723-haiti-world-australia-new-zealand-intercontinental-play-offs-pre-list-of-grenadieres.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38124-haiti-australia-and-new-zealand-confirmed-schedule-for-the-2023-fifa-women-s-world-cup.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38036-haiti-world-cup-australia-new-zealand-2023-our-grenadieres-in-training-in-portugal-pre-list.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37130-haiti-flash-haiti-fails-to-qualify-for-the-world-cup-against-jamaica-the-coach-explains-videos.html

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