{"id":21167,"date":"2012-05-01T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2012-05-01T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:13:27","slug":"bahamas-enjoys-a-concacaf-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/bahamas-enjoys-a-concacaf-moment","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Enjoys a CONCACAF Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21172\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21172\" title=\"concacaf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/concacaf-250x137.jpg\" alt=\"concacaf\" width=\"250\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/concacaf-250x137.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/concacaf-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/concacaf.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy CONCACAF.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The United States feels it may have some history to rewrite at the  CONCACAF Under-17 Women&#8217;s Championship.\u00a0 The Bahamas feels it already has  done that.<\/p>\n<p>When the third installment of the confederation&#8217;s age-group  championship kicks off in Guatemala City on Wednesday, the Americans  have some catching up to do.<\/p>\n<p>For the Bahamas, it already has achieved its historic milestone.<\/p>\n<p>When the nation comprised of 3,000 islands, cays and inlets beat  Guyana 1-0 on December 3 in Jamaica, it claimed the last of three  Caribbean berths in the confederation finals, and celebrated the first  time the country had qualified for a CONCACAF championship at any level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels good to advance,&#8221; Bahamian soccer federation vice president  Fred Lunn told the Nassau Guardian at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s at a point now  where the next round will be extremely tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grouped with the United States, Mexico and Trinidad &amp; Tobago &#8211;  which it already lost to 3-0 in qualifying, the Bahamas will be  prohibitive underdogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States feels it may have some history to rewrite at the CONCACAF Under-17 Women&#8217;s Championship.  The Bahamas feels it already has done that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[376,100,113],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-athletes","tag-caribbean-2","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}