Honduras national football team
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| Nickname | Los Catrachos La Bicolor Garra Catracha |
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| Association | Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras |
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| Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Reynaldo Rueda |
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| Captain | David Suazo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Amado Guevara (92) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Carlos Pavón (40) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | HON | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 20 (September 2001) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 95 (November 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest Elo ranking | 23 ({{{Elo max date}}}) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international Guatemala 10 - 1 Honduras  (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 14 Sept, 1921) |
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Biggest win Honduras 10 - 0 Nicaragua  (San José, Costa Rica; 13 March 1946) |
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| Biggest defeat Guatemala 10 - 1 Honduras (Guatemala City, Guatemala; 14 Sept, 1921) |
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| Appearances | 1 (First in 1982) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 1, 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CONCACAF Gold Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 8 (First in 1991) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Second place, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Honduras national football team, nicknamed La Garra Catracha, is the national team of Honduras and is controlled by the Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras. They are a rising power in CONCACAF, an ascent that started with their third place finish in the 2001 Copa América, where they were a late invitee, because Argentina dropped out one day before kickoff.
Honduras made the World Cup finals once, in 1982, getting draws against host Spain and Northern Ireland. Their best finish in the CONCACAF Gold Cup was second in 1991. Honduras won the UNCAF Nations Cup twice, in 1993 and 1995.
The Football War started after a qualifying game for the 1970 World Cup against El Salvador. After massive rioting between the fans, on 14 July 1969, the Salvadorian army launched an attack against Honduras. A cease fire was put in effect six days later.
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[edit] Records
[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1958 - Did not enter
- 1962 to 1974 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Withdrew
- 1982 - Round 1
- 1986 to 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] Gold Cup record
- 1991 - Second place
- 1993 - Round 1
- 1996 - Round 1
- 1998 - Round 1
- 2000 - Quarterfinals
- 2002 - Did not qualify
- 2003 - Round 1
- 2005 - Semifinals
- 2007 - Qualified
[edit] Copa América record
Starting from 1993, CONMEBOL has invited teams from other confederations to participate in their confederation championship, Copa América. Honduras has taken part as one of the invited teams once (2001), it was a last minute replacement because Argentina dropped out one day before kickoff, the team with barely enough players arrived after the tournament started and just few hours before its first game, in quarter-finals round on Monday July 23, 2001 Honduras defeated (2-0) and eliminated the favorite Brazil. Before the game, the TV and many newspapers around the world showed some members of Brazil national team making fun and jokes by saying 'Where in the map is Honduras?'.
[edit] UNCAF Cup
- 1991 - Runner-up
- 1993 - Champions
- 1995 - Champions
- 1997 - 4th place
- 1999 - 3rd place
- 2001 - Round 1
- 2003 - 4th place
- 2005 - Runner-up
- 2007 - 5th place
[edit] Olympic Games record
- 1896 to 1924 - Did not enter
- 1928 to 1996 - Did not qualify
- 2000 - Round 1
- 2004 to 2008 - Did not qualify
[edit] U-20 World Cup record
- 1977 - Round 1
- 1979 to 1993 - Did not qualify
- 1995 - Round 1
- 1997 - Did not qualify
- 1999 - Round 1
- 2001 to 2003 - Did not qualify
- 2005 - Round 1
- 2007 - Did not qualify
[edit] U-17 World Cup record
[edit] Squad Members 2007
These are the following players that Rueda chose for the match against El Salvador March 24 and 27.
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[edit] Records versus other nations
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