29917: Potemaksonje (News) Haiti celebrates Caribbean Cup title (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> From Potemaksonje
Haiti celebrates Caribbean Cup 
titlehttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/01/25/bc.soc.caribbeancup.hai.ap/


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Hundreds of fans welcomed home Haiti's national 
soccer team on Wednesday, a day after it won the Caribbean Cup for the first 
time.
 Haiti defeated Trinidad and Tobago 2-1 in the final at Port-of-Spain, 
Trinidad, its best result in the tournament's 18-year history.
About 100 supporters crowded around the squad's chartered plane and cheered as 
players emerged and held up the silver trophy. Hundreds more fans packed the 
airport's entrance, hoping for a glimpse of the team.
 "Now we want to go to the World Cup in 2010. We have the means, we just proved 
it," Yves Jean Bart, president of the Haitian Football Federation, said as 
players toasted with champagne.
 Haitians celebrated the win well into the night with fireworks and loud 
parties. Trinidad's team was weakened by the absence of many star players, who 
had club commitments.
 Cuba defeated Guadeloupe 2-1 in the third-place game. All four nations 
qualified for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the regional championship of soccer's 
North and Central American and Caribbean region. That tournament will be played 
in the United States from June 6-24.


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