North Americans everywhere, invest in winter coats.
The North American family of soccer-playing nations may soon have a new member—and to say its climate is different from the rest of CONCACAF is an understatement.
Greenland has formally applied to become CONCACAF's 42nd member, the autonomous territory's soccer federation announced in a Tuesday afternoon Facebook. The frigid, sparsely populated island has had a national soccer team outside the jurisdiction of FIFA since 1980. "Greenland is taking a historic step on the international football scene by officially applying for membership in the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football ," the body wrote in Danish, translated through Google Translate. Attached were letters in Greenlandic and Danish confirming the application.
A decade has passed since Bonaire, a special municipality of the Netherlands, became the newest CONCACAF member in 2014.to join UEFA in the past but has been met with roadblocks due to a lack of infrastructure. The territory normally plays nearby Scandinavian teams like the Faroe Islands and Iceland; its last game against a CONCACAF member was a 3-2 loss to Bermuda in July 2023.
Approximately 56,000 people live in Greenland despite its status as the world's largest island. Its national stadium,
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