Nicaragua national football team

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Nicaragua

Nickname

La Azul y Blanco
Los Pinoleros

Association

Federación Nicaragüense
de Fútbol

Confederation

CONCACAF (North America)

Head coach

Carlos Alberto de Toro

Home stadium

Estadio Cacique Diriangén

FIFA code

NCA

FIFA ranking

156

Highest FIFA ranking

150 (August 1993)

Lowest FIFA ranking

193 (May 2001)

Elo ranking

181





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 Squad Members 2006
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 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] Gold Cup record

1991 to 2005 - 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 - 5th 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] Squad Members 2006

Head Coach: Carlos Alberto de Toro

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Club
00	GK	Lester Melendez	May 18, 1981	3	Harrow Borough
1	GK	Denis Espinoza	August 25, 1983	4	Diriangén
	GK	Marcos Landeros		0	Scorpión FC
	GK	Emerson Salinas		0	Villa Austria
	GK	Harwin León Figueroa		0	América
	DF	Javier Solórzano		0	Real Estelí
13	DF	Carlos Alonso	August 25, 1979	19	Diriangén
10	DF	Milton Bustos		4	Diriangén
5	DF	Silvio Avilés	August 11, 1980	9	Diriangén
	DF	Hoogly Corrales		0	Diriangén
	DF	Jorge Isaac Sevilla		0	Deportivo Jalapa
	DF	Josué Zarate		0	América
4	DF	Juan Carlos Vílchez	April 18, 1980	5	CD Masatepe
	MF	José Carballo		0	Diriangén
8	MF	Eustace Martín	December 21, 1983	1	Diriangén
	MF	David Solórzano		17	CD Masatepe
	MF	Solón Eugarrios		0	América
	MF	Ismael Reyes		1	Diriangén
16	MF	Franklin López	August 16, 1982	6	Diriangén
	MF	Gerardo Arce		0	América
	MF	Samuel Wilson		2	Real Estelí
	FW	David Martínez		2	Real Estelí
	FW	Wilber Sánchez		4	San Salvador
14	FW	Rudel Calero	December 20, 1982	15	Real Estelí
	FW	Erick Palma		0	Real San Luis
	FW	Mario Estrada		0	Scorpión FC
	FW	Emilio Palacios			Independiente Nacional 1906