My New Favorite Soccer Team: Guadeloupe

Don't ask me how I started watching some Gold Cup games on Univision despite a complete lack of understanding for the Spanish language and soccer, but I was able to catch the US-T&T game over the weekend. It was at halftime of that game that something very surprising happened. As they showed the standings of the Gold Cup, I discovered a country that I never heard of before in my life; Guadeloupe. Where?? Does that place actually exisit? As a political science major, I was actually embarrassed to think that there might be a country in North America that I never knew existed. Thinking that maybe it was some sort of bad Spanish translation, I investigated to find out if Guadeloupe was a real country. To my surprise, it is a real country.....sorta. It's actually a territory of France, but that's beside the point. That fact is that it is a real place I've never heard of. Here is what Guadeloupe looks like.......



Not only is Guadeloupe a real country, but the soccer team is shocking everyone in the Gold Cup. They upset Canada 2-1 and are currently in 1st place of Group A with 4 points. All this despite the fact that their uniforms look like the same ones that I wore for my 3rd grade AYSO team. Every color of the rainbow included.


So good luck Guadeloupe. I may not watch another game of the Gold Cup, but just know that you have a big fan at JCMJ.