And another bit of good news for the football community, the Belmopan Bandits will be allowed to participate in the CONCACAF Champion's League.
As we told you the FFB Stadium has been receiving a 1.8 million dollar upgrade funded by FIFA. This was in an effort for Belize reach the qualifying standards to play in the games, and after assessing the progress on stadium made so far, CONCACAF says that the Belize can now participate.
Vicente told us that it's welcome news for the 2014 Premier League Champs, The Bandits:
Ruperto Vicente - President, FFB
"We have received the green light but we still have the pitch to get ready by the 2nd of July and that's going to confirm their participation. Yes there are in and all we need to do now is to prepare the pitch for them."
Reporter
"Did you meet the deadline that had been in place?"
Ruperto Vicente
"Certainly we met the deadline, but just they gave us an extension to complete the pitch itself."
Reporter
"What does that entail though?"
Ruperto Vicente
"The completion of the pitch is simply putting on the goals, finishing the grass, leveling the field and as well as cutting it it. The lighting system is complete and that has passed with FIFA. We are now using a stadium that has the lighting between 1100 - 1600 lux, so the lighting system is okay. The locker rooms have passed as well, those are okay and all that is left for the locker rooms are the bathrooms facility and as well as putting the AC in. Those are going to be completed. The bleachers are completed, those are being numbered. We are good to go for champion's league. All that is left for us this week is putting the rest of grass, level the field and then cut it and line it - that's all left for us and so Bandits already in champions so they will be playing that this year."
The rest of the works on the stadium are expected to be finished in the first or second week of July. The Bandits will be the first to play an international match on the new pitch when they represent Belize in the Champion's League.
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