The Sicily national football team will participate in the 2023 European Championships of Conifa, an institution that includes football selections from stateless and autonomous nations, ethnolinguistic minorities and non-Fifa member states. Sicily is, therefore, among the teams included in the European football championship for major national teams organized by Confederation of Independent Football Associations (Conifa) which will take place in the Republic of Northern Cyprus next June. Sicily will play its first continental tournament with the 11-a-side men's football team squad, coached by former Catania defender Giovanni Marchese, she returned from her victorious debut with the result of 4-1 over Sardinia in the Antudo Cup played in Mazara del Vallo.
Sicily football in the Conifa championship
Sicily have been placed in pot 2023, the draw will take place in spring 2016. Other teams are also expected to be present: the host country Northern Cyprus, reigning champions South Ossetia, Abkhazia, winners of the World Cup XNUMX, Lapland, Cornwall and the of Sardinia. The Conifa European Championship, scheduled from 3 to 11 June next, is a continental tournament that involves territories and regions that are not internationally recognized but eager to promote their historical and social identity. Conifa (Confederation of Independent Football Associations) is a football body founded in 2013 and has almost 60 member federations divided into 5 continental areas: Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. On a regular basis it organizes both the World Cup and the individual continental tournaments.
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