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CONCACAF Gold Cup: French Guiana uses ineligible player vs. Honduras; Canada ties Costa Rica

If you didn’t get to watch Tuesday’s CONCACAF Gold Cup games, you missed quite a bit of drama.

French Guiana 0, Honduras 0

Forget about the lack of goals for a moment, because there was a huge story here. French Guiana deliberately played an ineligible player as a protest against CONCACAF bureaucrats’ apparent mishandling of the roster rules.

The player is Florent Malouda, whom you might have heard of from his playing career in Europe. Malouda was a big-time prospect at French club Lyon from 2003 to 2007, then moved to English powerhouse Chelsea and stayed there until 2013.