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The only player of the national football team who plays in Haiti, Woodenski Pierre, has an appointment at the American consulate on Monday, June 1, 2026, for the review of his visa application.
The only player of the national football team who plays in Haiti, Woodenski Pierre, has an appointment at the American consulate on Monday, June 1, 2026, for the examination of his visa application.
Woodenski Pierre hopes, if all goes well, to join the Haitian national football team, Le Nouvelliste learned from a government source on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
“Everyone is aware. There is no apprehension. He has an appointment at 10 a.m., Monday,” the source continued, noting that it was the first topic addressed by Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé during his meeting on Friday with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who was visiting Port-au-Prince.“This is the first thing the PM discussed with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. He didn’t even respond that an embassy official indicated that Woodensky Pierre has an appointment on Monday. He is the only player on the team who lives in Haiti; he could not not make the trip,” added our source, confident that everything will go well for him with his visa application.
The Grenadiers began their training camp on May 24, 2026, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and are preparing to play friendly matches against New Zealand and Peru on June 2 and 5.Before this outcome in sight, the situation of the Violette AC midfielder had been the subject of articles in American media such as the New York Post, Washington Times, and Orlando Sentinel, as well as of much concern in Haiti and its diaspora.
The Haitian national football team will be based in New Jersey and must play its first World Cup match against Scotland in Boston on June 13, fifty-two years after Haiti’s last participation in the grand football celebration in 1974.
