Dave Deacon Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 Kernow Football Alliance manager Darren Gilbert says the camp are ‘hungry to get going’ after details emerged of this summer’s rearranged European Football Cup (EFC), writes Tom Howe. Tournament newcomers Kernow will meet holders South Ossetia and 2019 hosts Artsakh in Group C of the competition, which is due to take place in Nice, France on June 3-12 at the 8,000 capacity Stade Charles-Ehrmann. Restrictions surrounding the fight against covid-19 forced organisers CONIFA - otherwise known as the Confederation of Independent Football Associations - to postpone the event, originally scheduled for June 2021, by some 12 months. Having previously missed out on the 2020 World Football Cup for similar reasons, hopes are high that Cornwall’s footballers will finally get their chance to shine on the international stage with Gilbert and his management team set to begin preparations this month. "It is something we are all looking forward to," said Gilbert, whose side remain unbeaten since joining CONIFA back in November 2018. "It needs something like this to get us focused again. We have played all these games and the boys were hungry to play in two competitions but they were both cancelled. It will be nice, touch wood, if we can go out there this summer to compete in the competition and see how we fare. I just hope it does go ahead because it will be good for the players' mentalities. "They will be looking forward to it, I am certainly looking forward to it and I am sure Andy Graham, Darren Wright [team coaches] and the rest of the team will welcome it as well. It is a bonus to go out there and play, have a bit of sunshine and enjoy it at the same time. Everybody is scared to get excited in case it doesn't happen again but hopefully it does and in the next month or so we need to get the team together and do some sessions. "We need to know who and what we are taking, who can go and who can't. Touch wood it goes ahead and we can start getting things together, getting used to the boys again and getting some training sessions under our belts. We don't know anything about the other teams but we have enough people to watch them while we are over there to give us an insight into how they play, formations and stuff like that. They are going to have to worry about us though, we have got a lot of quality in our team. "The Mousehole boys are flying at the moment. Tallan Mitchell and Hayden Turner have been doing really well. There are a couple of Helston boys, the Bodmin boys...I have been keeping an eye on things and there are some big pluses. Billy Palfrey has been playing really well for Plymouth Parkway, Max Gilbert has been doing well for Liskeard Athletic. James Ward is flying with Falmouth Town in the league and I hope that these boys can hit form at the right time and take that into the European Championships." Each team will play the others in their group once with placement matches to follow, meaning everyone will play at least four times at the competition, designed for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA. Western Armenia, beaten 1-0 by South Ossetia in the final at Stepanakert Republican Stadium in the last final, will face two-time champions Padania and Chameria in Group D. Group A features hosts County of Nice, World Football Cup winners in 2014, who will entertain Two Sicilies and Sardinia who, like Kernow, are preparing for their first appearance at a CONIFA competition. Finally, 2016 World Football Cup champions Abkhazia line up in Group B alongside Sapmi and Szekely Land. Incidentally, Kernow’s last outing came in May of 2021 when beating Cascadia 8-1 at the Fenton Civil Engineering Stadium in Northwood to win the inaugural Prost Soccer Challenge Cup. From Tom Howe Media Director Kernow Football Alliance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 Trip down to the South of France next June to watch Kernow in action? Very tempting. Town Fan, Thecupfootballblogger and Simon York 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted January 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 23 minutes ago, Way Of The Park said: Trip down to the South of France next June to watch Kernow in action? Very tempting. I know 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 53 minutes ago, Dave Deacon said: I know 🤔 Rappo and Deacs on tour? RAPPO, Thecupfootballblogger and mattelot 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Hocking Posted January 31, 2022 Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 4 day bank holiday weekend in the middle of the first week too 🏖️🍺 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccer Follower Posted February 1, 2022 Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 Is there funding/sponsorship for this competition or do the players and management team have to pay their own way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish leg end Posted February 3, 2022 Report Share Posted February 3, 2022 Hopefully no Bodmin boys in the side they’ve been poor this season. Should be looking at more players from Falmouth, liskeard, camelford, Wendron surely not the same old boys chasing money in Cornwall all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 18 hours ago, cornish leg end said: Hopefully no Bodmin boys in the side they’ve been poor this season. Should be looking at more players from Falmouth, liskeard, camelford, Wendron surely not the same old boys chasing money in Cornwall all the time. A lot of the squad composition will come down to who's available. There will be several who have work and family commitments which mean they can't make the trip, and others who possibly just don't want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheolderIgetthebetterIwas Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Way Of The Park said: A lot of the squad composition will come down to who's available. There will be several who have work and family commitments which mean they can't make the trip, and others who possibly just don't want to. Pretty much the same as affects availability in the TSWPL for the Cornish clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Hocking Posted May 17, 2022 Report Share Posted May 17, 2022 Apparently the tournament’s been cancelled - don’t have any more details for the time being I’m afraid TheolderIgetthebetterIwas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southwest football fan Posted May 17, 2022 Report Share Posted May 17, 2022 On 03/02/2022 at 14:27, cornish leg end said: Hopefully no Bodmin boys in the side they’ve been poor this season. Should be looking at more players from Falmouth, liskeard, camelford, Wendron surely not the same old boys chasing money in Cornwall all the time. And bringing in players playing abroad that they never seen play and play at a standard that's probably worse than St Piran league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Deacon Posted May 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2022 Looks like earlier in the month there was doubts over the County of Nice FA staging it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted May 18, 2022 Report Share Posted May 18, 2022 The current Conifa European Champions, South Ossettia, appear still to be on the fixture list for the tournament. As a breakaway state that was formed by the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2014 (and is only recognised internationally by Russia, Syria, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru) would think that they would be subject to sporting sanctions and, in any case, is it really company that Kernow would want to keep? TheolderIgetthebetterIwas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bray Posted May 18, 2022 Report Share Posted May 18, 2022 On 31/01/2022 at 13:47, Dave Deacon said: Kernow Football Alliance manager Darren Gilbert says the camp are ‘hungry to get going’ after details emerged of this summer’s rearranged European Football Cup (EFC), writes Tom Howe. Tournament newcomers Kernow will meet holders South Ossetia and 2019 hosts Artsakh in Group C of the competition, which is due to take place in Nice, France on June 3-12 at the 8,000 capacity Stade Charles-Ehrmann. Restrictions surrounding the fight against covid-19 forced organisers CONIFA - otherwise known as the Confederation of Independent Football Associations - to postpone the event, originally scheduled for June 2021, by some 12 months. Having previously missed out on the 2020 World Football Cup for similar reasons, hopes are high that Cornwall’s footballers will finally get their chance to shine on the international stage with Gilbert and his management team set to begin preparations this month. "It is something we are all looking forward to," said Gilbert, whose side remain unbeaten since joining CONIFA back in November 2018. "It needs something like this to get us focused again. We have played all these games and the boys were hungry to play in two competitions but they were both cancelled. It will be nice, touch wood, if we can go out there this summer to compete in the competition and see how we fare. I just hope it does go ahead because it will be good for the players' mentalities. "They will be looking forward to it, I am certainly looking forward to it and I am sure Andy Graham, Darren Wright [team coaches] and the rest of the team will welcome it as well. It is a bonus to go out there and play, have a bit of sunshine and enjoy it at the same time. Everybody is scared to get excited in case it doesn't happen again but hopefully it does and in the next month or so we need to get the team together and do some sessions. "We need to know who and what we are taking, who can go and who can't. Touch wood it goes ahead and we can start getting things together, getting used to the boys again and getting some training sessions under our belts. We don't know anything about the other teams but we have enough people to watch them while we are over there to give us an insight into how they play, formations and stuff like that. They are going to have to worry about us though, we have got a lot of quality in our team. "The Mousehole boys are flying at the moment. Tallan Mitchell and Hayden Turner have been doing really well. There are a couple of Helston boys, the Bodmin boys...I have been keeping an eye on things and there are some big pluses. Billy Palfrey has been playing really well for Plymouth Parkway, Max Gilbert has been doing well for Liskeard Athletic. James Ward is flying with Falmouth Town in the league and I hope that these boys can hit form at the right time and take that into the European Championships." Each team will play the others in their group once with placement matches to follow, meaning everyone will play at least four times at the competition, designed for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA. Western Armenia, beaten 1-0 by South Ossetia in the final at Stepanakert Republican Stadium in the last final, will face two-time champions Padania and Chameria in Group D. Group A features hosts County of Nice, World Football Cup winners in 2014, who will entertain Two Sicilies and Sardinia who, like Kernow, are preparing for their first appearance at a CONIFA competition. Finally, 2016 World Football Cup champions Abkhazia line up in Group B alongside Sapmi and Szekely Land. Incidentally, Kernow’s last outing came in May of 2021 when beating Cascadia 8-1 at the Fenton Civil Engineering Stadium in Northwood to win the inaugural Prost Soccer Challenge Cup. From Tom Howe Media Director Kernow Football Alliance From what I've been told the Competition been postponed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish leg end Posted May 18, 2022 Report Share Posted May 18, 2022 1 hour ago, David Bray said: From what I've been told the Competition been postponed. Again? This comps a lash up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheolderIgetthebetterIwas Posted May 18, 2022 Report Share Posted May 18, 2022 19 minutes ago, cornish leg end said: Again? This comps a lash up. Been bit of a lash up since its inception it seems to me. Tommy Matthews and cornish leg end 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Pethick Posted June 7, 2022 Report Share Posted June 7, 2022 On 18/05/2022 at 18:16, TheolderIgetthebetterIwas said: Been bit of a lash up since its inception it seems to me. Was initially a fan of the whole Conifa/Kernow thing (especially watching matches in the 2018 tournament), but now moving towards Older's opinion of it. Reading the CONIFA website, it appears that nobody from the host city organisers are picking up the phone or answering emails. What a lash up. TheolderIgetthebetterIwas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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