National Soccer
The Guatemala selection will face Jamaica twice in a short period of time, once by qualifiers and the other in the Concacaf Gold Cup.
Andre Blake de Jamaica against Guatemala in the Gold Cup 2023. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The Guatemala selection will face an old acquaintance in the Gold Cup 2025 After the group stage raffle determined that the national bicolor will face Jamaica, a rival against which also A ticket will be played to the next round of the World Cup qualifiers.
The Concacaf made the Gold Cup 2025 with the 16 participating selections organized in four groups of four members. The bicolor was paired in group C with Panama, Jamaica and Guadalupeall rivals who have faced in the last two years.
Against Panama fell into the Concacaf 2023 Nations League, a tournament that quota to the Copa América 2024.
Before Jamaica he played in the previous Gold Cup and lost 1-0 in the quarter-final round. While against Guadalupe there was also a confrontation, which was won 2-3 in the group stage.
Guatemala vs Jamaica: two games in the same determining month
However, the main novelty that has done in the football environment of Guatemala is that confrontation against Jamaica in the group stage, since only a few days before the start of the Gold Cup, the bicolor will be measured before the Reggae Boyz June 10 in Kingston in A World Cup Qualifiers Party.
That meeting will be the last one to play both teams in the second round of the Concacaf Qualifiers, where the two tickets are played to the third round that will be played in September and November.
Guatemala is currently leader of Group E with six points over Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Dominican and the British Virgin Islands.
The Bicolor will play against the Dominican Republic its penultimate game on June 6 and if it wins, it will arrive at the match against Jamaica already qualified for the third round of the qualifiers.
That means that the game in the group phase of the Gold Cup will be a rematch of the match that takes place on June 10 in Kingston.
The date of the Guatemala vs Jamaica of the Gold Cup 2025 will be known on Friday, April 11 when the Concacaf publishes the official competition calendar, but it could be that it is the first match of both selections in the tournament.