El Salvador soccer team

The El Salvador soccer team has many nicknames. The team was invariably called Selección Cuscatleca, La Azul, La Selecta and Cuscatlecos. The head coach of the team is Carlos de los Cobos and the team captain is Afredo Pacheco. The player who garnered the most games is Luis Guevara Mora and the team’s top scorer is Jorge “Mágico” Gonzales. His playing field is the Cuscatlán Stadium. They ranked 50th in FIFA in 1992 (their highest FIFA ranking) and in 2006, they fell to 169th, their lowest FIFA rankings.

His first international match occurred in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on September 14, 1921 against Costa Rica. The Costa Ricans dominated the game with the score of 7-0. The biggest victory they had achieved is their match against Anguilla in which they trampled their opponent which resulted in a score of 12-0. The match was recently held in their own country on February 6, 2008. However, they savored a great defeat when they met the Hungarian national team. That was in 1982 where they had managed to sink just one goal against Hungary’s 10.

El Salvador’s soccer team appeared at the World Cup twice, the first in 1970 when it won the qualifying match against Honduras that resulted in the infamous Soccer War, and its second World Cup concert occurred in 1982. There they were able to score their first goal in the World Cup. made by Luiz Baltazar Ramirez Zapata. They had also managed to secure a spot in the CONCACAF Gold Cup five times.

The proper name of the El Salvador soccer team is El Salvador National Soccer Team, which is under the direct control of the Salvadoran Soccer Federation. Many soccer stars came from this team, including Pablo Huezo, Santiago Barrachina and Carlos Escobar. The team was officially born in 1921.