Dominican Republic national under-23 football team

Dominican Republic Under-23
Nickname(s)Los Quisqueyanos
ConfederationCONCACAF
Head coachIbai Gómez
First colors
Second colors
Summer Olympics
Appearances1 (first in 2024)
Best resultTo be decided
CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Appearances1 (first in 2020)
Best result7th, 2020

The Dominican Republic national under-23 football team represents the Dominican Republic in tournaments and friendly matches at the under-23 level. They qualified to compete in their first CONCACAF qualifier for the Olympics in 2020, which was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Mexico and around the world.[1][2] The tournament was later held in March 2021, and the Dominican national U23 team finished last in their group. However, Dominican Republic U20 reached the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship final which qualified the nation to the 2024 Summer Olympics for the first time in their history.[3]

Summer Olympics record

Rules
  • 1996–present: u-23 national teams (with three 'no age limit' players allowed, after an agreement between FIFA and OIC)
Note
  • No tournament held in 1932
Olympic Games record
Year Host Round Pos. Pld. W D L GF GA
1900
French Third Republic Paris
did not qualify
1904
1908
1912
1920
1924
1928
1936
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024 Qualified
2028 To be determined
2032
Total 1/30 0 0 0 0 0 0
*Denotes draws including knockout matches decided via penalty shoot-out.
**Since 1968, Spain has sent its under-23 national team.

Results and fixtures

2024

Paraguay  v  Dominican Republic
23 March Friendly Paraguay  2–0  Dominican Republic Asunción, Paraguay
19:30
  • F. Cardozo 8'
  • Román 70'
Stadium: Estadio Tigo La Huerta
Referee: Juan Jara (Paraguay)
Paraguay  v  Dominican Republic
26 March Friendly Paraguay  1–2  Dominican Republic Asunción, Paraguay
19:30
  • Fernández 73'
Report
Stadium: Estadio Tigo La Huerta
Egypt  v  Dominican Republic
24 July Olympics GS Egypt  v  Dominican Republic Nantes, France
17:00 Stadium: Stade de la Beaujoire
Dominican Republic  v  Spain
27 July Olympics GS Dominican Republic  v  Spain Bordeaux, France
15:00 Stadium: Stade de Bordeaux
Dominican Republic  v AFC 2
30 July Olympics GS Dominican Republic  v AFC 2 Paris, France
15:00 Stadium: Parc des Princes

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up to play two friendlies against Paraguay U23 on 23 and 26 March 2024.[4]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1 1GK Enrique Bösl Germany FC Ingolstadt II
12 1GK Anthony Núñez

2 2DF Israel Boatwright (2005-06-02) 2 June 2005 (age 18) United States Inter Miami CF
3 2DF Joao Urbáez (2002-07-24) 24 July 2002 (age 21) Spain Leganés B
4 2DF Edgar Pujol (2004-08-07) 7 August 2004 (age 19) Spain Real Madrid Castilla
19 2DF Nelson Lemaire Belgium Union SG U23
22 2DF Thomas Jungbauer Czech Republic Dynamo Ceske Budejovice B
23 2DF Francisco Marizán Netherlands Volendam U21

5 3MF Omar de la Cruz Spain Peña Deportiva
6 3MF Isaac Báez Dominican Republic O&M
8 3MF Ángel Montes de Oca Dominican Republic Cibao
14 3MF Yordy Álvarez Dominican Republic Atlántico
16 3MF David Rodríguez Paraguay Cerro Porteño U23

7 4FW Oscar Ureña (2003-05-31) 31 May 2003 (age 20) Spain Leganés
9 4FW Nowend Lorenzo (2002-11-02) 2 November 2002 (age 21) Spain Osasuna B
10 4FW Edison Azcona (2003-11-21) 21 November 2003 (age 20) United States Las Vegas Lights FC
11 4FW Rafael Núñez (2002-01-25) 25 January 2002 (age 22) Spain Elche Ilicitano
13 4FW Alessandro Ovalle Italy Sampdoria Primavera
17 4FW José de León (2004-03-02) 2 March 2004 (age 20) Spain Alavés B
18 4FW Yan Friessner Germany Rot-Weiss Essen U19
21 4FW Oliver Schmidhauser (2004-06-02) 2 June 2004 (age 19) Switzerland Winterthur U21

References

  1. ^ "Due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic across the world, Concacaf has elected to suspend all of its competitions set to take place over the next 30 days, including the 2020 Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, from March 20 – April 1 in Guadalajara, Mexico". Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  2. ^ "The 2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship is the latest soccer tournament affected by coronavirus, with Concacaf announcing the tournament's postponement Friday morning". Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "USA, Dominican Republic book Paris 2024 Olympic berths after reaching CONCACAF Under-20 Championship final". International Olympic Committee. July 19, 2022. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  4. ^ "Definida la lista de jugadores para el preolímpico de concacaf" (in Spanish). Dominican Football Federation. March 8, 2021.


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