The CONCACAF website has confirmed the Gold Cup will be played in a record 13 different U.S. cities and Miami’s FIU stadium will be hosting a double header July 10, 2009.
Qualified countries are: Canada,
Mexico and the United States. Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and
Nicaragua from Central America; and Jamaica, Grenada, Guadeloupe and Haiti from the Caribbean. The schedule will be announced at a later time.
This is good news for Miami’s FIU stadium which was set to host an MLS team in 2010 but the withdrawal of the bid by Barcelona and business man Marcelo Claure put a damper into those plans. Further trouble remains on the soccer front as USL side Miami FC are also said to be threatening to leave the scene. Miami Fans hope this is only a bad dream. It’s reassuring to know International soccer will still come to this city.
On Saturday and Sunday a 24 hour Soccer-A-Thon was organized by the Miami Ultras in their quest to save Miami FC . I attended this event and I have to give credit to Pieter Brown
and Julio Caballero for sticking it out the full 24 hours and organizing this event, not to mention the rest of the Miami Ultras and fans that showed up. 
Those that attend had the privilege of playing with Miami FC staff, including Brazilian Captain and World Cup Champion in 1994 Zinho who is the current Miami FC coach. Zinho played injured but still managed to score at least 3 goals and set up numerous others. Another notable attendee was one time Miami Fusion player Diego Serna who spoke to Miami FC staff (We hope to see him sign on for the team!)
Miami FC staff present stated that sometime this week we should know if the “Blues” will play this season. Traffic Sports, owners of the club had set a 5,000 season ticket goal for the Miami FC staff who are working diligently to get to those numbers.
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All event pictures provided by Victor Palkaninec