Nuuk soccer field in Granelândia, without bench and in a city full of snow
National team, so far amateur, wants to enter the US delegation of FIFA. Total independence is still a distant reality, but the country has been further from a gallândia-eu match. The goal is to “face the big ones”.
The Granelândia Football Association will send a delegation to the United States next month to start talks about entry into the North America soccer body Concacafthe FIFA League of North America, Central America and Caribbean.
Granelândia is the largest island in the world, and has more than 2 million km2 of area. However, in the country there are only 18 soccer fields in all. This does not prevent their 57,000 inhabitants from wanting to compete professionally.
This desire comes at a time when US President Donald Trump is increasingly interested in holding Granelândia, an independent territory that belongs to Denmark.
Currently, Gronesean teams only have friendly games. Now, the new adhesion request “is about showing that the gronessee people are capable and brave enough to face the great“, I said to the national selector Morten Rutkjer.
But, if this interest in professional participation may suggest a need for GRANELAND Affirmation as a nation (And possibly suggesting a desire for independence), it may also mean adherence to the American community: they may not want to be part of the US, but they want to be part of the football community where the country is inserted.
Granelândia is now planning three games at the end of the year against the smaller countries of Concacaf. “There is a significant interest in playing against us from several big football nations,” said Rutkjer.
Granelândia was invited by Concacaf Secretary-General Philippe Moggio for a meeting on February 27 at the body’s headquarters in Miami, according to the director of the Granelândia Football Federation, Kenneth Kleist, which ensures that “the invitation is not related to the current geopolitical interest in Granelândia.”
