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Country: Grenada
Official website: www.grenadafootball.com
Nickname(s): Spice Boyz
Manager: Mike Adams (2011)
Gold Cup appearance(s): (2) 2009, 2011
Best finish: First Round (2009)
The smallest nation to qualify for the Gold Cup, Grenada will be making its second straight appearance in 2011 looking to improve on a performance from two years earlier when it lost all three games by a combined 10-0. Grenada qualified by reaching the semifinals of the Caribbean Cup in December, upsetting traditional regional power Trinidad and drawing with Cuba while conceding just five goals in six games under then-manager Franklyn Simpson. Vanquished by Jamaica in the semifinals, it again will face the Reggae Boyz in the Gold Cup, along with Central American champion Honduras and Guatemala. Mike Adams has replaced Simpson as manager, and will employ strikers Kithson Bain (five goals in the Caribbean Cup) and Delroy Facey (two goals). He also may have use of players such as Everton's Jermaine Beckford, who are eligible to play for Grenada.
