{"id":83151,"date":"2025-11-20T01:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/haiti-qualifies-for-the-world-cup-historic-celebration-amid-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:17:49","slug":"haiti-qualifies-for-the-world-cup-historic-celebration-amid-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/haiti-qualifies-for-the-world-cup-historic-celebration-amid-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti qualifies for the World Cup: Historic celebration amid violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Haiti Celebrates with Euphoria its Qualification to the Soccer World Cup<\/h2>\n\nPort-au-Prince, despite the growing violence, took to the streets to celebrate the historic qualification of its national soccer team for the World Cup. The Haitian team secured its place after defeating Nicaragua with a score of 2-0 in the last matchday of Group C of the qualifiers.\n\nJoy overflowed in the capital, with shots and shouts echoing in the metropolitan area. In P\u00e9tion-ville, hundreds of people celebrated the victory with chants and dances, demonstrating the passion for football that unites the nation.\n\nThe selection, led by Frenchman S\u00e9bastien Mign\u00e9, is preparing for its second participation in the World Cup, after its debut in Germany 1974.\n\nDue to the insecurity situation in the country, Haiti played its qualifying matches abroad, this time in Cura\u00e7ao. The Stade Sylvio Cator, its main stadium, has been under the control of armed gangs since March 2024.\n\nThe classification has generated an atmosphere of celebration and hope in the population.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/haiti-celebracion.jpg\" alt=\"Celebraci\u00f3n del equipo haitiano\" data-id=\"12345\" data-link-status=\"ok\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe president of Haiti&#8217;s Presidential Transition Council (CPT), Laurent Saint-Cyr, congratulated the team, highlighting the importance of this achievement on such a symbolic date as November 18, the day of the Battle of Verti\u00e8res. Saint-Cyr stressed that the team has given the people a moment of pride and national unity, and praised the team&#8217;s performance during the qualifiers.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;On this symbolic day of November 18th, the date of the Battle of Verti\u00e8res, the Grenadiers have given the Haitian people a moment of deep pride and national communion.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Laurent Saint-Cyr<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aim\u00e9, described the classification as &#8220;another victory and another page in history.&#8221;\n\nThe French embassy in Haiti and the United States also congratulated the Haitian selection for their achievement.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti Celebrates with Euphoria its Qualification to the Soccer World Cup Port-au-Prince, despite the growing violence, took to the streets to celebrate the historic qualification of its national soccer team for the World Cup. The Haitian team secured its place after defeating Nicaragua with a score of 2-0 in the last matchday of Group C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8312,2123,4554,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-83151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-classification","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-haiti","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}