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Grenada national football team
Men's association football team
This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Grenada women's national football team.
The Grenada national football team represents Grenada in international football, and is controlled by the Grenada Football Association, a member of the Caribbean Football Union of CONCACAF. The team is nicknamed The Spice Boys, a reference to the country being nicknamed the "Island of Spice" or the "Spice Isle".
Grenada has never qualified for the World Cup but have finished second in the Caribbean Cup in 1989 and 2008. Their second-place finish in the 2008 Caribbean Cup gave Grenada its first qualification to a major international competition, that being the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
History
[edit]Beginnings and early tournaments (1934–1989)
[edit]Grenada played its first international match, on 13 October 1934, against British Guiana, which they defeated 2–1. They played British Guiana twice, Barbados and St Kitts and Nevis before the Second World War started in 1939, winning all of those contests.
In 1961, Grenada participated in the Windward Islands Tournament, losing their opening game to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6–3, but winning their next two matches against Saint Lucia 4–0 and D
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| Bill McKinlay Park, Auckland - the venue for the third and final game of the 1985 NZ tour. The final score was New Zealand 2 Fiji 0. If we look only at the scorelines Fiji improved as the tour went on. |
| L to R: Cheetah, Epeli Kosa & Henry Dyer. |
We toured New Zealand later but we did not do well because we were not using the European soccer pattern from Germany. We had a good combination of youth and seasoned players who were travelling on this tour to represent Fiji. The youth players were Ivor Evans, Akuila Rova, and this tall Muslim boy from Ba (Mohd. Aiyub Bai). The seasoned players were Savenaca Waqa, Abraham Watkins, Meli Vuilabasa, Stan Morrel, Rusiate Waqa, Sam Work, and Kelemedi “Cheetah” Vosuga. In the backs there was Stan Morrel, Abdul Manaan, and me. In the midfield there was Meli Vuilabasa, Kelemedi “Cheetah” Vosuga, and Tony Kabakoro. In the forwards there was Ivor Evans, Rusiate Waqa, and Akuila Rova. The goalkeeper was Savenaca Waqa. The reserve goalkeeper was Suka Tuba (from the since relegated Nasinu Soccer Association). This was the core of the team which I vividly remember. We had the cream of the crop there. Unfortunately we lost all three matches. Maybe it was due to complacency and the extremely