July 2 – The Concacaf Gold Cup kicks off tonight in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with the first of three triple header preliminary knockout rounds that will decide the final three qualifiers for group stages that start at the end of next week, July 10.
When Concacaf was forced by the pandemic to come up with a new qualification format for its Gold Cup group stages, the centralisation of a 12-team knock-out phase just a few days before the main event started looked like a stop gap solution to get the numbers done.
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