When the governing entity for soccer in the Caribbean and North America scheduled Haiti and the Dominican Republic to face each other in its Nations League soccer tournament at Santo Domingo’s newly renovated Félix Sánchez stadium, the match was bound to be intense.
The two countries share the same Caribbean island, Hispaniola, and have a long, complicated history marked by periods of escalating tensions and animosity over migration, politics, race and their shared 244-miles porous border. Now those tensions threaten to ignite once more following a provocative celebration by one of Haiti’s star players as his controversial remarks and the fallout inject fresh friction into the relationship.
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