Soccer in Canada is the most popular sport in terms of participation rate. According to FIFA's Big Count, 2,695,712 people played in Canada in 2006. Professional soccer in Canada is played in Major League Soccer, the United Soccer League, and the Canadian Premier League. Canada also has many semi-professional and amateur soccer leagues. Canada's men's and women's national soccer teams are ranked 79th and 5th respectively in the FIFA World Rankings, as of September 3, 2018.
The Sint Maarten national football team is the football team of Sint Maarten, the Dutch half of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, and is controlled by the Sint Maarten Soccer Association. Sint Maarten is not a member of FIFA, and therefore is not eligible to enter the World Cup. However, the association planned to apply for FIFA membership in 2016.
The flag of Sint Maarten is the national flag of Sint Maarten, a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands occupying the southern half of the island of Saint Martin. The flag, designed by 17 year old Roselle Richardson, was officially adopted on 13 June 1985.
The Prime Minister of Sint Maarten became the head of government of Sint Maarten after the Netherlands Antilles had been dissolved on 10 October 2010. The prime minister, together with the Council of Ministers and the Governor of Sint Maarten, form the executive branch of the government of Sint Maarten. Sint Maarten's current prime minister is Leona Marlin-Romeo.
The government of Sint Maarten, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is formed by the monarch, represented by the governor, and the ministers. The prime minister presides the council of ministers. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The minister plenipotentiary is not part of the government and represents the Sint Maarten government in the Netherlands. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The country is a parliamentary representative democratic country with a multi-party system. Sint Maarten has full autonomy on most matters, with the exceptions summed up in the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands under the title "Kingdom affairs". The Constitution of Sint Maarten was ratified in September 2010, and entered into force on 10 October 2010.
Women's soccer in the United States has developed quite differently from men's soccer. Until the 1970s, organized women's soccer matches in the United States existed only on a limited basis. The United States is now regarded as one of the top countries in the world for women's soccer, and FIFA ranked its national team No. 1 in the world after its championship victory in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The Sint Maarten cricket team has represented the Dutch Overseas Territory of Sint Maarten in cricket. The team is not a member of the International Cricket Council, but is a member of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association, which itself is a member association of the West Indies Cricket Board, and players from Sint Maarten generally represent the Leeward Islands cricket team at domestic level and the West Indies at international level. Sint Maarten has however played as a separate entity in matches which held Twenty20 status, but has not appeared in first-class or List A cricket. The teams current coach is Rishie Singh, who was appointed in 2009. As of September 2014, the teams captain is Kenroy David.
The 2017 Caribbean Club Championship was the 19th edition of Caribbean Club Championship, the annual international club football competition in the Caribbean region, held amongst clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), a sub-confederation of CONCACAF.
Andre Knol is a St. Maartener international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Funmakers FC of the SMSA Senior League. At one point, he was one of the top four youngest senior international players in the world.
Djai Essed is a St. Maartener footballer who plays for the Sint Maarten national team.
Trevor Wrensford, Jr. is a US Virgin Islands soccer player, who currently plays as a midfielder for Raymix of the St. Thomas League, and the United States Virgin Islands national team.
New Jersey Copa FC are a pro-am soccer club fielded by the soccer/football academy FC Copa Academy from Metuchen, New Jersey, United States, which was founded in 2004, and fields men's, women's, and youth teams in a number of different US amateur and semi-professional leagues, in addition to yearly academy teams, which compete in various state, regional, and national competitions sanctioned by USASA.
Leona M. Marlin-Romeo is a Sint Maarten politician and the current Prime Minister of Sint Maarten. She was selected as Prime Minister in the coalition agreement between the United People's Party, the Democratic Party and the independent member of Parliament Chanel Brownbill. She previously served as a Member of Parliament from 2014 to 2016.
The Ministry of Justice of Sint Maarten oversees public safety, law and order, and the upholding of justice in Sint Maarten. The ministry is responsible for the following agencies:
Jean Jacques Craane is a St. Maartener footballer who plays for Soualiga in the Sint Maarten Senior League and the Sint Maarten national team.
Diaro Forsythe is a Sint Maartener international footballer who plays as a defender for FC Soualiga and the Sint Maarten national football team.
