St.Lucia/ Saint Lucia Cricket & Soccer

St.Lucia Cricket

Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Beausejour is the West Indies' eighth Test venue, and arguably the Caribbean's most spectacular. Situated in the drier north-end of the island, not far from Pigeon Island and benefiting from a sea breeze, it currently holds 12,000 people but additional, temporary seating will be in place for the World Cup increasing the capacity to 21,000. And although still new to the international scene, it has nevertheless hosted some intriguing contests in its four-year history and has had other Caribbean grounds scrambling to emulate the ultra-modern facilities

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St.Lucia Soccer

The Saint Lucia national football team is the national association football team of Saint Lucia and it represents that country in international football matches. It is controlled by the St. Lucia Football Association and it is part of CONCACAF.

The team attempted to qualify to the World Cup finals tournament for the first time during the 1994 World Cup qualification, when they were eliminated in the first qualification round by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 1992.

The team is currently competing in the first round of the CONCACAF 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. In March 2008, Saint Lucia advanced to the second qualifying round by eliminating Turks and Caicos 3-2 on aggregate.^[1] Saint Lucia's next opponent will be Guatemala, whom they are scheduled to play against in June 2008.

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