The Dominican Republic’s senior national soccer team saw its hopes of qualifying for its first World Cup vanish this Friday, after a 4-2 defeat against Guatemala in the second matchday of Group E of the Concacaf qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\nThe Caribbean team, which went into halftime with a 2-1 lead, couldn’t maintain the pace against the Guatemalan offense in the second half. The home team scored three goals in a ten-minute span, sealing the victory at the Cementos Progreso Stadium.\n\n\n
Guatemala opened the scoring with a goal by \u00d3scar Santis at minute 6. Dominican Republic responded with goals from Dorny Romero (16′) and Heinz M\u00f6rschel (35′), but the second half was dominated by the home team. Nicol\u00e1s Samayoa (52′) and two more goals from Santis (59′ and 62′) sealed the match.<\/p>\n\n\nThe start of the match was delayed by half an hour due to an incident with the Dominican team’s bus and the weather conditions.\n\n\n
With this defeat, the Dominican Republic national football team (Sedof\u00fatbol) has three points in the group, surpassed by Guatemala (9 pts) and Jamaica (6 pts), complicating their chances of advancing to the next phase. The Dominicans’ next match will be on Tuesday against Dominica, at the F\u00e9lix S\u00e1nchez Stadium in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dominican Republic:<\/strong> Miguel Lloyd, Luiyi De Lucas, Noah Dollenmayer, Juan Familia-Castillo, Edgar Pujol, Pablo Rosario, Jean Carlos L\u00f3pez, Heinz M\u00f6rschel, Ronaldo V\u00e1squez, Peter Gonz\u00e1lez, and Dorny Romero. Coach: Edward \u201cLa Beba\u201d Acevedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guatemala:<\/strong> Nicholas Hagen, \u00c1aron Herrera, Nicol\u00e1s Samayoa, Jos\u00e9 Pinto, Jos\u00e9 Morales, Jonathan Franco, Jos\u00e9 Rosales, \u00d3scar Santis, Pedro Alt\u00e1n, Rudy Mu\u00f1iz, and Rubio Rub\u00edn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dominican Republic Says Goodbye to World Cup Dream After Losing to Guatemala The Dominican Republic’s senior national soccer team saw its hopes of qualifying for its first World Cup vanish this Friday, after a 4-2 defeat against Guatemala in the second matchday of Group E of the Concacaf qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,3699,3698,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-9499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nationals","7":"tag-dominican-republic","8":"tag-guatemala","9":"tag-qualifying-rounds","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499","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=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}