Colombia Reports

Colombia news, sports, culture and travel

Saturday
Mar 20th
Text size
  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
Home News Sports Colombian national team remains in Bogotá

Colombian national team remains in Bogotá



The Colombian national team will continue to use Bogotá as host city for its World Cup qualifying matches, or at least the upcoming game with Bolivia. Manager Eduardo Lara expressed an interest in using Barranquilla, but that option was rejected by the country's FA.

Colombia has used Bogotá for all of its World Cup 2010 home matches so far, which has left the other usual host city, Barranquilla, unused.

The FA now states that the coastal town's stadium does not meet requirements for such international games, which means that the national team shouldn't be expected to appear there anytime soon.

The situation is different in Medellín and Manizales, where venues are said to meet these requirements.

As such, the FA will decide ahead of each game which city is to host that match. Bogotá has been selected for the match with Bolivia, but the team could well play its remaining games elsewhere.




Reddit! Del.icio.us! Mixx! Free and Open Source Software News Google! Live! Facebook! StumbleUpon! TwitThis Joomla Free PHP

Comments (1)add comment

gringo michae said:

0
...
I hope they do after all it s the National team and I am sure ours would like to see them
 
January 25, 2009
Votes: +0

Write comment
smaller | bigger

security image
Write the displayed characters


busy
 

Your opinion please

Colombia's best news source is
 

CR members

Advertise with us

Reach out to the tens of thousands reading Colombia Reports