The Haitian men's national team was cruising when Derrick Etienne was subbed out of its Caribbean Football Union Gold Cup playoff match against Suriname on Friday, January 6. Up 3-0 with about 15 minutes to play, Les Grenadiers' head coach Jean Claude Josaphat pulled the New York Red Bulls attacker out of the game. The decision did not seem to sit well with the player, who larruped a water bottle across the damp ground at Ato Boldon Stadium and needed a consoling arm from a member of the coaching staff and a run at the far end of the stadium to cool off.
Haiti got the result it wanted and needed to keep its hope of qualifying for the 2017 Gold Cup alive.
