Surinamese national soccer team

Suriname Republic of Suriname

Nickname (s)	Natio
Association	Surinamese Voetbal Bond (SVB)
confederacy	CONCACAF
Head coach	Dean Gorré (again since 2018)
captain	Claidel Kohinor (November 2019)
Home stadium	André Kamperveen Stadium
FIFA code	SUR
FIFA rank	141st (1073 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Dutch Guiana 1: 2 British Guiana ( Paramaribo ; January 28, 1921)
Biggest win Suriname 8-1 Aruba ( Paramaribo , Suriname; March 27, 2004)
Biggest defeats Mexico 8-1 Suriname ( Monterrey , Mexico; October 15, 1977) Costa Rica 7-0 (2-0) Suriname ( San José , Costa Rica ; September 6, 2008)
Successes in tournaments
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 1977 )
Best results	6. 1977
(As of January 2018)

The Surinamese national football team , also known as the "Natio", is the men's selection of the Surinamese Football Association (SVB) founded in 1920 . It represents the South American Republic of Suriname at international meetings. Like the football associations of the neighboring countries Guyana and French Guiana , the SVB does not belong to the South American continental association CONMEBOL , but to the North and Central American CONCACAF . The team has taken part in the CONCACAF Nations Cup twice so far . No qualification has yet been achieved for a soccer world championship .

history

In July 1948 a national soccer team traveled from Suriname to the mother country, the Netherlands , for the first time . Suriname was unoccupied during the Second World War and the trip by a delegation from the colony to Europe was something special for both the players and the audience in Holland. In order to prepare the 18 players nominated by the SVB primarily mentally, a coach from the Netherlands came to Suriname. The opponent was not the Dutch national football team , but various clubs in the Eredivisie , such as B. Ajax Amsterdam (Result: 2: 2) and Feyenoord Rotterdam (Result: 1: 3).

In the past few decades, some internationally successful footballers have been born in Suriname. As emigrants , they received their football training in the former mother country. For these reasons, and certainly also for sporting and financial reasons, they decided to wear the color of the former colonial power and not that of Suriname. Some well-known players and coaches who have their roots in Suriname are: Ruud Gullit , Frank Rijkaard , Edgar Davids , Clarence Seedorf , Patrick Kluivert , Aron Winter , Romeo Castelen and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink .

On November 15, 2019, Nigel Hasselbaink, the first player since Suriname's independence from the Netherlands in 1975, with Dutch nationality and Surinamese roots, made his debut in an official game of the Suriname national football team. A so-called Surinamese sports passport was given for the eligibility to play . The team won this game to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2021 in Paramaribo against Dominica 4-0.

Trainer

After a conflict between coach Leo Koswal and some players from the national team, the board of the SVB decided on July 26, 2006, after hearing both sides, to dismiss coach Koswal with immediate effect. Kenneth Jaliens, uncle of the Dutch national soccer player Kew Jaliens , was hired as the new coach .

On March 12, 2009, the former Surinamese international Wensley Bundel was initially committed to the SVB as the new coach of the national team for a period of four months. Bundel was a multiple national champion and CONCACAF winner as a player with SV Transvaal . After his active time, he worked successfully as a trainer for several high class clubs. Arnold Burleson is at his side as an assistant and co-trainer. The first international match under the new coaching team, on April 22nd, 2009 against French Guiana at the Stade de Baduel in Cayenne , ended goalless, 0-0.

After Ricardo Winter took over the team from Bundel for a short period on an ad interim basis, the SVB signed Kees Zwamborn as the new coach in January 2010 . After Rob Groener , who looked after the national team in the late 1970s, he is the second Dutch coach after Suriname's independence. The cooperation between the SVB and Zwamborn ended on June 1, 2010, and Ricardo Winter was signed for the 2010 Caribbean Championship.

In July 2011, the SVB announced that the technical coordinator of the football association Kenneth Jaliens (53) had been recruited as the coach of the national team. After leaving as a trainer in 2009, he successfully completed a nine-month trainer-coach (TC) 1 training course at the KNVB , which enables him to advance to the position of assistant trainer in paid football in Europe. Under Jaliens, the national team began preparing for qualification for the 2014 World Cup. Suriname failed as third in CONCACAF qualifying group A.

The board of the SVB, together with the technical director Kenneth Jaliens, recruited Ricardo Winter, who had previously worked as the coach of the national team, in March 2012. After the previous coach of the U-20 national team, Harold Deyl, refused to take over the position of assistant coach, Eugene Verwey was hired in April 2012.

At the beginning of May 2014, the SVB announced that Roberto Gödeken had been hired as national coach in Jamaica in November 2014 to prepare and participate in the national team in the Caribbean football championship .

On February 2, 2015, Dean Gorré (44) was signed by the SVB as the new national coach. His contract was limited to June 30, 2015. In June Suriname met in the second preliminary round of qualifying for 2018 FIFA World Cup in Nicaragua . After the first leg in Managua was lost 1-0, Suriname lost 3-1 on June 16, 2015 under Dean Gorré in the second leg in Paramaribo at the André Kamperveen Stadium .

After a time with transition coaches, Dean Gorré received another contract as national coach from the SVB on July 3, 2018, this time for a period of two years.

Parbo Beer Cup 2009

From June 3 to June 7, 2009 the Parbo Beer Cup was held in the André Kamperveen Stadium in Paramaribo. The tournament was attended by the national teams of Guyana and Antigua & Barbuda , the football team from French Guiana and, for the first time in the history of Surinamese football, a mixed team of professionals of Surinamese descent from the Netherlands and players from the national team of Suriname (Suri-Mix team) part.

Suriname, with Edgar Davids as captain, lost their opening game against the later Cup 2009 winners French Guiana 2-0 on June 3. The Suri-Mix team took second place in the final table.

Tournaments

World Championship

• 1930 and 1934 - did not take part
• 1938 - Registration for qualification for the 1938 World Cup in France was withdrawn.
• 1950 to 1958 - did not participate
• 1962 - In qualifying for the 1962 World Cup in Chile , they met the Netherlands Antilles in the preliminary round in Group 3 and were eliminated 1: 2 and 0: 0.
• 1966 - In qualifying for the 1966 World Cup in England, played in the preliminary round in Group 2 against Costa Rica and Trinidad and Tobago . After winning 4 games, they were eliminated as second in the group.
• 1970 - In qualifying for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico , El Salvador and the Netherlands Antilles were played in Group 4 . After 2 wins and 2 defeats they were eliminated as second in the group.
• 1974 - In qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany , group 6 played against Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua and Barbuda . After 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat, however, they were eliminated as second in the group.
• 1978 - In qualifying for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina , they met in the Caribbean zone of the 1st round in Group A against Guyana , against whom they qualified with 0: 2 and 3: 0 for the 2nd round. There they were able to prevail after a 1-1 and a 2-2 in the playoff with 3-2 after extra time against Trinidad and Tobago . In the final round they met Mexico , Haiti , Honduras , Canada and Guatemala . After 5 defeats, the bottom of the group missed the qualification.
• 1982 - In qualifying for the 1982 World Cup in Spain , Group A was played against Cuba and Guyana in the Caribbean zone . With 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat you were eliminated as second in the group.
• 1986 - In qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , they beat Guyana in the first round in Group 1 with 1: 0 and 1: 1 . In the second round they met Honduras and El Salvador . But had to give up after only 1 draw from 4 games.
• 1990 - did not participate
• 1994 - In qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA , they met Guyana again in the first round of Caribbean zone 3 and qualified 2: 1 and 1: 1 for the next round. There they were eliminated 0-0 and 1-2 against St. Vincent .
• 1998 - In qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France , they met Jamaica in Caribbean zone 4 of the preliminary round and were beaten 0: 1 twice.
• 2002 - In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , they were drawn in Caribbean zone 1 in the 1st round against Santa Lucia and prevailed 3-1 on penalties after 0: 1 and 1: 0. In the semifinals they were eliminated 0: 1 and 0: 0 against Cuba .
• 2006 - In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany , they met Aruba in the 1st round and moved into the 2nd round with 2: 1 and 8: 1. There they were eliminated 1: 1 and 1: 3 against Guatemala .
• 2010 - As part of qualifying for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the team met the Montserrat national team in the first round of the CONCACAF zone . The game in Macoya ( Trinidad ) ended on March 26, 2008 7-1 for Suriname. In the second round, the team met Guyana . On June 14, Suriname won the first leg at the André Kamperveen Stadium in Paramaribo 1-0. Since the second leg on June 22nd at the Providence Stadium in Guyana was won 2-1, Suriname had qualified for the first group stage. The team played here in Group 3 against Costa Rica , El Salvador and Haiti for the two places for the fourth qualifying round. The first game of the group stage between Haiti and Suriname on August 20, 2008 in Port-au-Prince ended 2-2 (0-2). On September 6, 2008 Suriname lost against Costa Rica in the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in San José with 7-0 (2-0) goals. The first home game against El Salvador, on September 10, 2008, was lost 2-0 (2-0). Suriname lost the second leg against Costa Rica on October 11, 2008 in Paramaribo with 1: 4 (0: 2). In El Salvador there was the 4th defeat on October 15, 2008 with 0: 3 (0: 2) goals. On November 19, 2008, the two losers in Group 3, Suriname and Haiti, played their last qualifying match in Paramaribo. As in the first leg, the second leg ended in a 1: 1 (1: 1) draw.
• 2014 - In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , El Salvador , the Dominican Republic and the Cayman Islands were played in the 2nd round . After 2 wins and 1 draw from 6 games, they were eliminated as third party.
• 2018 - In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , the team met Nicaragua in the second round in June 2015 and missed the third round 0: 1 and 1: 3.

CONCACAF championship

CONCACAF Nations Cup

From 1973 the tournament also served as a World Cup qualifier.

• 1963 to 1969 - did not take part
• 1971 - Since Suriname did not want to compete against Haiti in the second qualifying round, the final place was given to Haiti.
• 1973 - did not participate
• 1977 - 6th place
• 1981 - did not qualify
• 1985 - preliminary round
• 1989 - did not participate

CONCACAF Gold Cup

• 1991 - did not qualify
• 1993 - withdrawn
• 1996 - did not qualify
• 1998 - did not participate
• 2000 - did not qualify
• 2002 and 2003 - withdrawn during qualification
• 2005 to 2019 - not qualified
• 2021 - qualified

Suriname also has to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup through the Digicel Caribbean Championship organized by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) .

Caribbean Championship

1989 - did not participate 1991 - preliminary round 1992 - main round 1993 - withdrawn 1994 - 4th place 1995 - did not qualify 1996 - 4th place 1997 - did not participate 1998 - preliminary round

1999 - preliminary round 2001 - main round 2005 - 1st round 2007 - 2nd round 2008 - 2nd round 2010 - 2nd round 2012 - 2nd round 2014 - did not qualify 2017 - did not qualify for the finals

ABCS tournament

2010 - 1st place 2011 - 3rd place 2012 - 2nd place 2013 - 1st place 2014 - not held 2015 - 1st place

See also

• Surinamese women's national soccer team

Web links

• Website FIFA qualification games of the CONCACAF Association for the 2010 World Cup, Suriname
• Unofficial list of Suriname international matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Nederlandse aanvaller Nigel Hasselbaink debuted vrijdag voor natio . StarNieuws , Dutch, November 15, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Suriname walst met 4-0 over Dominica . StarNieuws , Dutch, November 15, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Dean Gorré hired as the new national coach. StarNieuws , Dutch, February 2, 2015, accessed February 3, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Lost qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup. StarNieuws , Dutch, June 16, 2015, accessed June 17, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Gorré signs a two-year contract as national coach of Suriname. StarNieuws , Dutch, July 4, 2018, accessed July 4, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Suriname schrijft historie; plaatst zich voor Gold Cup 2021 . StarNieuws , Dutch, November 19, 2019, accessed November 19, 2019 .