Racon @ Guadeloupe

Siv_in_Norfolk

Have just been trying to find out some info about Therry playing fro Guadeloupe on the net - with little success

anybody else got anything?

I couldn't even find mention of a Guadeloupe friendly in the last week or so

Darren

Found this, it's not much though.
http://www.footy247.co.uk/node/341289

Siv_in_Norfolk

aha!!!

that explains why there was no match listed.....

I think it was his first call up too

BlackForestReds

From Wikipedia:

As an overseas department of the French Republic Guadeloupe is not a member of FIFA, and therefore is not eligible to enter the World Cup. However, they are eligible for all CONCACAF and CFU competitions.

Some useful players have either represented Guadeloupe, or have roots there:

Guadeloupean national team players
Miguel Comminges
Jocelyn Angloma
Franck Grandel
Loïc Loval
David Sommeil
Stéphane Zubar
Jean-Félix Dorothée (born in Metropolitan France.)
Therry Racon

French internationals from Guadeloupe or with Guadeloupe roots
Lilian Thuram
Thierry Henry
Marius Trésor
Mikael Silvestre
Ludovic Sylvestre
Pascal Chimbonda
William Gallas
Philippe Christanval
Louis Saha
Luc Sonor
Sylvain Wiltord
Nicolas Anelka
Gael Clichy
Eric Abidal

BlackForestReds

Some info on Guadeloupe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe

ShootersHillGuru

You could certainly get a decent team from that lot.

Scoham

[cite]Posted By: ShootersHillGuru[/cite]You could certainly get a decent team from that lot.

A lot of the French team have African or Caribbean (well, the French ones) roots.

ChicagoAddick

They are well fancied for the Gold Cup. They were semi finalists in 2007 and are expected to go one further this time even though the nation is not recognised by FIFA. Bermuda didn't qualify.

The tournament is being held in the US, with the semis in Chicago and final in NY.

Mortimerician

May have been mentioned in the link but it was only a training camp Racon was involved with.