The newly remodelled 10,000-seat football field at the Madre y Maestra Catholic University in Santiago will be the stage of the clash between Mexico’s Chivas de Guadalajara and the Dominican winning football team, the Cibao Futbol Club on 22 February 2018 in Santiago. The Dominican team is the regional champion of the Concacaf and won the right to play the Mexicans. The Santiago game will be a follow up to a first game the two teams will play. The first is scheduled for 28 January 2018 at the Akron stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico. The game will be broadcast on Fox TV at 9pm.
Cibao FC says that an estimated three or four thousand Mexican fans will travel to Santiago to root for their team during the match in Santiago.
The Cibao FC in 2017 became the first Dominican team to qualify when winning the Caribbean Clubs Tournament. The winner of the tournament earns a spot in the World Football Clubs Cup 2018.
The Cibao FC won the tournament by defeating the San Juan Jabloteh (San Juan Kings) team of Trinidad & Tobago in the final, becoming the first team from the Dominican Republic to be crowned Caribbean Club champions and the first to quality for the CONCACAF Champions League.
As reported in El Dia, Monsignor Agripino Núñez of the UCMM says the hope of football fans in the region is that the Cibao FC can become as successful as the Santiago baseball team, the Aguilas Cibaeñas.
17 January 2018
