About two months ago (october 2011) some random guy opened a topic on the forum of my beloved football team. The original starter of the topic wanted to share with us, that he thought, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was de coolest name for a country ever. In very fast tempo he got a lot of followers and a lot of the RSC Anderlecht fans started to get sympathy for this small independent country in the Carribean sea.

Very fast the Anderlecht fans discovered that, besides its cool name,  SVG had a lot more to offer. The national flag wasn't that bad either, their soccer jerseys were almost a piece of art and then we didn't even get started about their women.

This superficial interest faded away and real interest for SVG came in place.

People started to find out everything they could.........They got to know the history of the national football team of SVG, they were following the qualification matches for the World Cup 2014 in Brasil. The first match we started to follow our new heroes was against Grenada. Everyone was gutted when Grenada made the equalizer at the end of the match, after our national pride Samuel opened the scoring. 

In this blog you will find out everything about SVG. We will interview players, follow every match, review previous matches/players, we will tell you how and were to buy those cool SVG football jerseys and so on.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are currently ranked as number 146 on the world ranking table. There is lots of catching up to do when we want to outrank current leaders Spain, but it isn't as bad as it looks. Currently we are leaving no less then 59 countries behind us!!!!

Because we are number 146 in the world, we immediately started in round 2 of the World Cup 2014 Brasil qualifiers.

We were drawn with Guatemala (90), Belize (140) and Grenada (106) in Group E. The goal was to finish within the first two spots of the group as this would set us through to the next round. Guatemala was the group favourite, and the other teams were in balance to finish second.

Day 1 - 02/09/11

Grenada - Belize 0-3

Belize started their campaign brilliantly with a 0-3 away victory against a direct competitor. I am sure Grenada were left baffled at St. George's.

Guatemala - SVG 4-0

The group favourite did what it was supposed to do. SVG was definitely no match for this strong Guatemala. The fact that the match was played at the Guatemale City venue didn't make things any easier.

Guatemala 3 points (4-0)

Belize 3 points (3-0)

Grenada 0 points (0-3)

SVG 0 points (0-4)

Day 2 - 06/09/11 and 18/09/11

Belize - Guatemala 1-2

A hard but logic victory for Guatemala, that does what everyone expects them to do. It is clear that they don't mess around and they want to qualify themself as soon as possible.

SVG - Grenada 2-1

This was a very good match for the Vincy Heat, against an equally skilled opponent, and immediately the points followed. On day 2 it is already clear that it most likely will go between SVG and Belize for the second place.

Guatemala 6 points (6-1)

Belize 3 points (4-2)

SVG 3 points (2-4)

Grenada 0 points (1-5)

Day 3 - 07/10/11

SVG - Guatemala 0-3

Logic result, and dreams didn't come true for SVG.

Belize - Grenada 1-4

This was a shocker! Grenada, the team that couldn't hold off Belize at their home turf, blew away Belize and left them behind crying after a 1-4 victory. With this unexpected result everything is back open in Group E and 3 teams are competing again for the second place.

Guatemala 9 points (9-1)

SVG 3 points (2-5)

Grenada 3 points (5-6)

Belize 3 points (5-6)

Day 4 - 11/10/11 and 15/10/11

Guatemala - Belize 3-1

What else is new?

Grenada - SVG 1-1

This could have been a huge step towards qualification for SVG if Grenada didn't score the equalizer in the last minutes of the game. The 1-1 was followed by a lot of disbelief in the SVG camp....they were soooooooo close!

Guatemala 12 points (12-2)

SVG 4 points (3-6)

Grenada 4 points (6-7)

Belize 3 points (6-9)

Day 5  11/11/11

Belize - SVG 1-1

Although SVG opened the scoring, 1-1 is a logic result and they can't be too unhappy about it. A draw at home against Belize in the next match is enough for the Vincy Heat to qualify! Well done boys!

Guatemala - Grenada 3-0

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Guatemala 15 points (15-2)

SVG 5 points (4-7)

Grenada 4 points (6-10)

Belize 4 points (6-10)

Day 6 - 15/11/11

Grenada - Guatemala 1-4

yeah, yeah....

SVG - Belize 0-2

Drama and horror for SVG. Everyone's dreams shattered! We didn't deserve this! So close to qualification for round 3.

Final Standings Group E

Guatemala 18 points (19-3)

Belize 7 points (8-10)

SVG 5 points (4-9)

Grenada 4 points (7-14)

We bow to our heroes, thank you SVG for giving your best! We enjoyed it till the last minute....the drama.....the excitment....the goals.

Next time! We are sure of that!

Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines FOR LIFE!

Today we tell you a little bit more about our goalkeepers:

1 Goalkeeper Dwayne Sandy 19/02/1989 (11 Caps)  (0 Goals) Avenues United FC

Dwayne is currently our number one choice in the goal, he played all the World Cup qualifying matches.

He currently plays for Avenues United FC (SVG team) on loan from Caledonia AIA (Trinidad and Tobagon team). As Caledonia already had 4 equally skilled goalkeepers, it was an easy choice for them to give the young Dwayne a chance to get some experience somewhere else.

Dwayne himself is very happy he made to move to Avenues United FC as he is one of the key players there. Avenues United FC is one of the oldest football clubs in SVG and is based in Kingstown, the capital of the country.

Before he made it as our national number one he also played on the under 20 and the under 23 teams for SVG in the past few years.

2 Goalkeeper Winslow McDowald 12/01/1989 (20 Caps) (0 Goals)  Jebelle's FC

Winslow has a couple of caps himself, you can say he is in balance with Dwayne. It is positive that the team consists out of two talented goalies, as that kind of competition can only make them AND the team better.

Winslow also plays for a SVG-team, just as most of his compatriots.

3 Goalkeeper Rawle Stephens 19/08/1993  (0 Caps) (0 Goals) System 3 FC

Rawle is a young talent of System 3 FC. System is a newly founded football team and only exists since 1997. They currently play in the NLA Premier League. SVG has 14 different competitions because of all its Islands.

Although he hasn't got 1 cap so far, the future looks very bright for the youngster. Insiders say that in a couple of years he should be ready to compete with Dwayne and Winslow.