T&T Joe Public plays Impact here on September 17

Montreal’s Trinidad contingent will out in full force on Wednesday September 17 at the Saputo Stadium, when Joe Public Football Club takes on the Montreal Impact in the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. It is the first game at the group stage for both teams after they easily took their of respective two-game series. Joe Public became the first Caribbean team to advance past an MLS team in this tournament when they destroyed New England Revolution 4-0 at Gillette Stadium on Tuesday September 2 . A week before that they won 2-1 in the Trinidad leg of the series. Joe Public’s chairman, Jack Warner was quoted on the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation’s website as saying that their achievement was a meaningful one that’s will resonate among soccer clubs around the Caribbean. "It's a remarkable night for Joe Public and a historic result for our club football in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean," he said . "I mean to go to the home stadium and beat the top ranked American club team must be a feat that cannot go unnoticed. I am extremely proud of the entire team." Joe Public FC finished as the league’s runner-up in the Contact Staff Trinidad and Tobago Professional Football League in 2007. It was one of three Caribbean qualifiers, earned its spot in the tournament by finishing as the runner-up in the 2007 Caribbean Football Union Club Championship. There are 16 teams in the group stage of the tournament. In it’s group, Joe Public will be matched against Atlanta FC (Mexico) and the CD Olympia (Honduras),and the Montreal Impact. All the teams in each group will play each other in a six-match round-robin system (three home games, three away games). The top two teams from each of the four groups will advance to the Quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League. These eight teams will be drawn into four Quarterfinal pairings to play home-and-away match-ups in February 2009. The four Quarterfinal winners will then play in two Semifinal home-and-away match-ups in March and April 2009, with the two Semifinal winners meeting in the home-and-away 2008-09 CONCACAF Champions League Final in late April 2009.