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Selection for the 2018 world Cup: USA and Mexico still have a shot at a trip to Russia

Отбор на ЧМ-2018: США и Мексика сохраняют шансы на поездку в РоссиюIn the area of CONCACAF completed the penultimate stage of qualifying for the 2018 world Cup.

Qualifying for North and Central America consists of five rounds – 35 teams claim three direct spots in the final stage of the world Cup.

In the first round passed Bermuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Curacao, Nicaragua and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The second round of selection successfully overcame Nicaragua, Aruba, Belize, curaçao, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, El Salvador, Canada, Guatemala, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda.

In the third round the winners of the play-offs were the national teams of El Salvador, Canada, Haiti, Yamaki, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Guatemala.

After three rounds of the play-offs in the fight for getting into the final stage of the world Cup is only 12 national teams split into three groups.

Group a: Mexico – 16 points Honduras – 8, Canada – 7, El Salvador – 2.

Group B: Costa Rica – 16, Panama 10, Haiti 4 Jamaica – 4.

Group C: USA – 13, Trinidad and Tobago – 11 Guatemala – 10, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – 0.

Thus, from November 7, 2016 October 10, 2017 Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States in the two-round tournament will compete for three places on the world Cup. The team finishes fourth line, will play butt matches with a national team from Asia.

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