Just hours before the kickoff of the match between the national teams of Suriname and Haiti on Thursday, October 12, 2023, at the Frank Essed Stadion (6 a.m. Port-au-Prince time), many of the Grenadiers, for various reasons, will not be honoring the call-up from the heavily criticized national coach, Gabriel Calderon Pellegrino, who, despite his high-level qualifications, seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place in a Haitian selection ravaged by internal crisis, in addition to the lack of leadership from federation authorities.
Nations League: Can the Grenadiers Deliver Against Suriname and Jamaica in Paramaribo?
The bad news continues to accumulate regarding the holding of the two matches that Haiti is scheduled to play against Suriname on Thursday, October 12, and against Jamaica on October 15, 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago as part of the CONCACAF Nations League. Between the boycott, lack of leadership, and incompetence, could this be a plot to thwart the chances of seeing the Haitian national football team qualify for the 2024 Copa America?