“I could not be more proud of my players and how we did in this competition. Before this tournament nobody had ever heard of the Puerto Rico Islanders, and we made it to the semifinal. I’m disappointed with the performance in the penalties but I don’t think the elimination was a failure. Nobody could have imagined that we would have been in these circumstances.” Islanders coach Colin Clarke, on his team’s Cinderella story being stopped just a few shots short of the CONCACAF Champions League final.