The
2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, and the 21st CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's 50 years of existence. The United States was the host nation.
The competition started on Jun ...
is an official FIFA international football tournament to be held in United States from June 5 to June 25, 2011. The twelve national teams involved in the tournament are required to register a squad of 23 players, as stipulated in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament Rules and Regulations; only players listed in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament.
Listed players may only be substituted in the event of a serious injury up until 24 hours before the team's first match. The squads were submitted on May 21, 2011, 15 days prior to the first game.
Group A
Costa Rica
Head coach:
Ricardo La Volpe[SaborÃo named in Costa Rica roster for Gold Cup]
, MLSsoccer.com, retrieved May 21, 2011
Cuba
Head coach:
Raúl González Triana
Yosniel Mesa defected to the United States
El Salvador
Head coach:
Rubén Israel
Rubén Jorge Israel Yelen (8 December 1955 – 5 July 2021) was a Uruguayan footballer and a football team manager.
Coaching career
Libertad
In the Paraguayan championships, since the start of the Clausura 2007 tournament, Israel coached Clu ...
M/F: On September 20, 2013, the
Salvadoran Football Federation
The Salvadoran Football Federation ( or ) is the official governing football organization in El Salvador and is in charge of the El Salvador national football team, and El Salvador national beach soccer team. The federation is also in charge of t ...
banned 14 Salvadoran players banned for life due to their involvement with
match fixing
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging, hippodroming, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, v ...
while playing with the El Salvador national team over the previous two years, including 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Dennis Alas, Luis Anaya, Marvin González, Reynaldo Hernández, Miguel Montes, Dagoberto Portillo, Osael Romero, Ramón Sánchez and Miguel Montes.
Mexico
Head coach:
José Manuel de la Torre[Jonathan Orozco Replaces Jose De Jesus Corona On Mexico's Gold Cup Roster]
SB Nation, retrieved May 20, 2011
It was announced during the tournament on June 9, 2011, that five
Mexican players,
Sinha
Sinha is a surname which originates in the Indian subcontinent. The surname is commonly used by many communities including the Bengali Kayastha and the Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas of the Hindi Belt, and is common in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangla ...
,
Christian Bermúdez
Christian de Jesús Bermúdez Gutiérrez (born 26 April 1987), also known as El Hobbit, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Atlante.
Club career
Bermúdez has had a previous stint with Atlante from 2006 to 2001 ...
,
Édgar Dueñas,
Francisco Javier RodrÃguez and
Guillermo Ochoa
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña (; born 13 July 1985), commonly known as "Memo Ochoa", is a Mexican professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Primeira Liga club AVS Futebol ...
, all tested positive for
clenbuterol
Clenbuterol is a sympathomimetic amine used by sufferers of breathing disorders as a decongestant and bronchodilator. People with chronic breathing disorders such as asthma use this as a bronchodilator to make breathing easier. It is most comm ...
prior to the Gold Cup and have therefore been withdrawn from the squad. The CONCACAF Gold Cup Organizing Committee announced on June 19 that Mexico will be allowed to replace the suspended players. Mexico called up the following five players as replacements:
Group B
Guatemala
Head coach:
Ever Hugo Almeida[NOMINA SELECCION DE GUATEMALA PARA COPA DE ORO 2011]
fedefutguate.org, retrieved May 22, 2011
Grenada
Head coach:
Mike Adams
Honduras
Head coach:
Luis Fernando Suárez[Luis Fernando Suárez anunció la lista definitiva de Honduras para la Copa Oro]
Univision, retrieved May 20, 2011
Jamaica
Head coach:
Theodore Whitmore
Theodore Eccleston Whitmore, Order of Distinction, OD, (born 5 August 1972) is a Jamaican former professional association football, footballer. He is the former head coach of Jamaica national football team, Jamaica national team.
Club career
...
Group C
Canada
Head coach:
Stephen Hart
Guadeloupe
Head coach:
Roger Salnot
Panama
Head coach:
Julio Dely Valdés
Julio César Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a twin brother of Jorge Dely Valdés and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés.
Club career
Born in Colón, Dely ...
United States
Head coach:
Bob Bradley
Robert Frank Bradley (born March 3, 1958) is an American association football, soccer coach, who most recently managed Norwegian football team Stabæk Fotball, Stabæk fron 2023 - 2024.
A native of New Jersey and graduate of Princeton Universi ...
Player statistics
;Player representation by club
Three or more players
;Player representation by league
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 4 ...
nations only
The
Cuban squad was made up entirely of players from its domestic league.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2011 Concacaf Gold Cup Squads
CONCACAF Gold Cup squads
Squads