Nicaragua national football team

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Nicaragua

Nickname(s)

La Azul y Blanco
Los Pinoleros

Association

Federación Nicaragüense
de Fútbol

Confederation

CONCACAF (North America)

Head coach

Mauricio Cruz

Home stadium

Estadio Cacique Diriangén

FIFA code

NCA

FIFA ranking

186

Highest FIFA ranking

150 (August 1993)

Lowest FIFA ranking

193 (May 2001)

Elo ranking

182





First kit





Second kit

First international

El Salvador 9 - 0 Nicaragua

(El Salvador; May 1, 1929)

Biggest win

Nicaragua 3 - 1 Guatemala

(Panama; February 17, 1967)

Nicaragua 4 - 2 Belize

(San Salvador, El Salvador; February 12, 2007)

Biggest defeat

Brazil 14 - 0 Nicaragua

(Mexico; October 17, 1975)

The Nicaragua national football team is the national team of Nicaragua and is controlled by the Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol. It is among the weakest teams of Central America and has never qualified for a major international tournament.

1 Records
2 Records versus other nations
3 Current Squad
4 Links and Sources

[edit] Records

The Nicaraguan national football has never qualified for the World Cup.Their last attempt was in 2005 when Nicaragua lost in the qualifying round to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4-1 after a 2-2 draw at home a week earlier.

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
1994 to 2010 - Did not qualify

[edit] Gold Cup record

1991 to 2007 - Did not qualify

[edit] UNCAF Nations Cup record

1991 - Preliminary round
1993 - Preliminary round
1995 - Preliminary round
1997 - First round
1999 - First round
2001 - First round
2003 - 6th Place
2005 - 5th Place
2007 - 6th Place

[edit] Records versus other nations

Nicaragua has a negative record with all the eighteen national teams it has played against except for Bermuda (2-0-2), Cayman Islands (1-0-0), Puerto Rico (1-0-0) and Venezuela (0-1-0).

The only two CONMEBOL teams Nicaragua has played against are Venezuela (1-1) and Brazil (0-14, 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico [1] - worst defeat in Nicaragua's history http://archivo.elnuevodiario.com.ni/1999/mayo/07-mayo-1999/deportes/deportes1.html).

Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Points
Barbados	1	0	0	1	0	1	-1	0
Belize	4	1	0	3	3	11	-8	3
Bermuda	4	2	0	2	5	5	0	6
Brazil	1	0	0	1	0	14	-14	0
Cayman Islands	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	3
Costa Rica	13	0	0	13	10	63	-53	0
Cuba	3	0	0	3	1	13	-12	0
El Salvador	21	1	1	19	16	99	-83	4
Guatemala	13	0	1	12	7	46	-41	1
Haiti	5	0	2	3	5	18	-13	2
Honduras	12	0	1	11	5	46	-41	1
Mexico	3	0	0	3	1	14	-13	0
Netherlands Antilles	5	0	0	5	3	31	-28	0
Panama	15	4	0	11	13	45	-32	12
Puerto Rico	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	3
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2	0	1	1	3	6	-3	1
Trinidad and Tobago	2	0	0	2	1	6	-5	0
Venezuela	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
Totals	107	10	7	90	77	420	-343	37

[edit] Current Squad

The following players were called for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying against Netherlands Antilles on February 6, 2008.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
1	GK	Denis Espinoza	August 25, 1983	Diriangén
2	DF	Silvio Avilés	August 11, 1980	Diriangén
2	DF	Hoogly Corrales	October 30, 1978	Diriangén
4	DF	Mario Gaston	December 26, 1974	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
5	DF	Jaime Ruiz	August 24, 1981	Real Estelí
6	MF	Miguel Masis	September 11, 1983	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
7	MF	Quesler Rizo		Diriangén
8	MF	Franklin López	August 16, 1982	Diriangén
9	FW	David Martínez	August 10, 1983	Real Estelí
10	FW	Wilber Sanchez	August 24, 1979	América Managua
11	FW	Ricardo Vega		Real Estelí
12	GK	Carlos Mendieta	November 3, 1979	Real Estelí
13	FW	Samuel Wilson	April 4, 1983	Real Estelí
14	MF	Eustace Martín	December 21, 1983	Deportivo Walter Ferretti
15	DF	Milton Bustos	April 19, 1982	Diriangén
16	MF	Armando Collado		Nejapa FC
17		Carlos Gonzales
18	MF	David Solórzano	November 5, 1980	Deportivo Masatepe