El Salvador national football team
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| Nickname | La Selecta Selección Cuscatleca Cuscatlecos La Azul Guanacos |
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| Association | Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol |
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| Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Carlos de los Cobos |
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| Most caps | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer |  Raúl Díaz Arce (39) |
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| Home stadium | Estadio Cuscatlán | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | SLV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 138 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 60 (October 1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 169 (November 2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 112 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international El Salvador 0 - 7 Costa Rica  (Guatemala City, Guatemala; Sept 14, 1921) |
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Biggest win El Salvador 9 - 0 Nicaragua  (El Salvador; May 1, 1929) El Salvador 10 - 1 Nicaragua (El Salvador; December 16, 1943) |
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Biggest defeat Hungary 10 - 1 El Salvador (Elche, Spain; June 15, 1982) |
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| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 2 (First in 1970) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 1, 1970 and 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CONCACAF Gold Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 5 (First in 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Quarterfinals, 2002 and 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The El Salvador national football team is the national team of El Salvador and is controlled by the Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol. They have qualified for two World Cups, México 70 and España 82.
In the 1970 tournament, El Salvador lost their first game 3-0 to Belgium in Mexico City on June 3. On June 7, the team played its second match against the host nation. It proved to be a controversial affair: with the score still at 0-0, the Egyptian referee Hussain Kandil awarded a free-kick to the Salvadorans in their own half. It was immediately taken by Mexico, who scored a couple of seconds later. The Salvadoran players protested vigorously, to the extent of physically jostling Bermudan linesman Keith Dunstan, but the goal was allowed to stand.[citation needed] El Salvador were demoralised as a result, and Mexico subsequently won the game 4-0 with ease in Mexico City. On June 10, El Salvador lost their final match in the tournament 2-0 to the USSR in Mexico City, to finish bottom of Group A.
In 1982, El Salvador took a 20-man squad (two players short of the normal 22, for reasons that remain unclear), coached by Mauricio "Pipo" Rodríguez, to Spain. However, the team's experience was an unhappy one. In their first match on June 15, in Elche, they were defeated 10-1 by Hungary, a scoreline that stands as a World Cup record to this day. One crumb of comfort was that Luis Baltazar Ramírez Zapata did score the country's first ever World Cup goal during the game, albeit at a point when the Salvadorans were already down 5-0.
El Salvador managed to regain some pride in their subsequent games: displaying much-improved levels of organisation and commitment, they lost 1-0 to Belgium on June 19 in Elche and 2-0 to the then reigning world champions Argentina in Alicante on June 23.
El Salvador had lost or tied every single game between 2004 and 2007, when suddenly as the underdogs, in january 2007, they defeated the Danish national football team.
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[edit] World Cup record
| Year | Finish | Matches | Wins | Draws | Losses | Goals Scored | Goals Against |
| 1930 to 1934 | Did not enter | ||||||
| 1938 | Withdrew | ||||||
| 1950 to 1966 | Did not enter | ||||||
| 1970 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1974 to 1978 | Did not qualify | ||||||
| 1982 | Round 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| 1986 to 2006 | Did not qualify | ||||||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 22 |
[edit] Gold Cup record
- 1991 - Did not qualify
- 1993 - Did not qualify
- 1996 - Round 1
- 1998 - Round 1
- 2000 - Did not qualify
- 2002 - Quarterfinals
- 2003 - Quarterfinals
- 2005 - Did not qualify
- 2007 - Qualified
[edit] UNCAF Nations Cup record
- 1991 - 4th place
- 1993 - 4th place
- 1995 - 3rd place
- 1997 - 3rd place
- 1999 - 4th place
- 2001 - 3rd place
- 2003 - 3rd place
- 2005 - Round 1
- 2007 - 4th place
[edit] Major Honours
- Central American and Caribbean Games Gold Medal: 1954, 2002
- CCCF champions: 1943
[edit] Trivia
- First Central American team to qualify for a FIFA World Cup (1970) and first Central American team to qualify twice (1982).
- For the 1982 FIFA World Cup, Mexico did not qualify because they were eliminated by El Salvador in the qualifying hexagonal tournament.
[edit] Current squad
- Goalkeepers
| Name | Club |
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| Juan Jose Gomez | Firpo |
| Manuel Gonzalez Hernandez | Vista Hermosa |
| Dagoberto Portillo | A.D. Isidro Metapan |
- Defenders
- Midfielders
- Strikers
| Name | Club |
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| Hector Anibal Avalos Tobar | Once Municipal |
| Jose Orlando Martinez | Firpo |
| Juan Diaz Rodriguez | FAS |
| Alex Amílcar Erazo | Águila |
| Juan Alexander Campos Hernández | Águila |
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Current technical staff
| Head Coach | Carlos De Los Cobos |
| Assistant Coach | Ignacio Hernández |
| 2nd assistant Coach | Mauricio Alberto Alfaro |
| Physical |  Dudley Hitchman |
| Medical trainer | Francisco Amaya Cruz |
| massagerist | José Luis Rodríguez |
| trainer | Rodrigo Antonio |
[edit] Selected Famous Players
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[edit] Selected Famous Managers
| Name | Period | country |
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| Marck Scott Thompson | 1930-1935 | |
| Pablo Ferre Elias | 1935-1938 |  |
| Maximo Garay | 1940-1941 |  |
| Amaricano Gonzalez | 1943-1948 | |
| Orlandini | 1949-1951 | |
| Marcelo Estrada | 1953 | |
| Carbilio Tomasino | 1954-1959 | * |
| Milo Guardado | 1959-1960 | |
| Gregorio Bundio | 1960-1961 | |
| Conrado Miranda | 1961 | |
| Luis Comitante | 1962-1963 |  |
| Hernán CARRASCO Vivanco | 1965-1967 |  |
| Rigoberto Guzman | 1968 | |
| Gregorio Bundio | 1968-1970 | |
| Hernán CARRASCO Vivanco | 1970 | |
| Conrado Miranda | 1971 | |
| Hector D'Angelo | 1972 | |
| Jorge Tupinamba | 1973 | |
| Mauricio "Pipo" Rodríguez | 1973-1974 | |
| Conrado Miranda | 1975 | |
| Marcelo Estrada | 1975-1976 | |
| Raul Magana | 1976 | |
| Aurelio Pinto Beltrao | 1976 |  |
| Ricardo Facio Porta | 1977 | |
| Julio Contreras Cardona | 1977 | |
| Ricardo Tomasino | 1977 | |
| Raul Magana | 1979 | |
| Mauricio "Pipo" Rodríguez | 1979-1982 | |
| Armando Contreras Palma | 1983 | |
| Raul Magana | 1984 | |
| Juan Quarterone | 1984-85 | |
| Paulo Roberto Cabrera | 1986 | |
| Raul Magana | 1987 | |
| Milovan Djoric | 1988 |  |
| Miroslav Bucasinovich | 1988-89 |  |
| Conrado Miranda | 1988 | |
| Kiril Dojcinovski | 1989 |  |
| Oscar Benitez | 1991 | |
| Jorge Aude | 1991-1992 | |
| Aníbal Ruiz | 1992 | |
| Jorge Viera | 1993-1994 | |
| José Omar Pastoriza | 1995-1996 | |
| Armado Contreras Palma | 1996-1997 | |
| Milovan Djoric | 1997-1998 | |
| Kiril Dojcinovski | 1998 | |
| Mario “Marinho” Perez | 1998 | |
| Oscar Emigdio Benitez- | 1999-2000 | |
| Carlos Recinos | 2001-02 | |
| Carlos Recinos | 2003 | |
| Juan Ramon Paredes | 2004-2005 | * |
| Armando Contreras | 2005 | |
| Carlos De Los Cobos | 2006- | |
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ FIFA.com Association page at FIFA.com. Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ 1970 FIFA World Cup History Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ 1982 FIFA World Cup History Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Belgium-El Salvador on June 3, 1970 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Mexico-El Salvador on June 7, 1970 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Soviet Union-El Salvador on June 10, 1970 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ Did You Know? table Stating that Hungary broke the record for most lopsided victory against El Salvador. Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Hungary-El Salvador on June 15, 1982 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Belgium-El Salvador on June 19, 1982 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ FIFA Match Report for Argentina-El Salvador on June 23, 1982 Accessed 12 April 2006.
- ^ 1982 FIFA World Cup Preliminary History Overview which mentions that Mexico was eliminated by El Salvador and Honduras during the final qualifying stage. Accessed 21 July 2006.
[edit] External links
- Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol Official Site (Spanish)
- El Salvador national football team (Non-Official Site) (Spanish)
- National Football Teams site
