Honduras national football team
The Honduran national football team (nicknamed Los Catrachos ) is compiled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras selection team of the Central American Republic of Honduras.
The biggest successes reached the Honduran footballer with the qualifications for the Football World Cup 1982 in Spain, the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa and the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil. At the World Championships in Spain would retire by two draws ( 1-1 against hosts Spain and a 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland) and a 0-1 defeat against Yugoslavia in the first round of.
Another success was the third place at the 2001 Copa America, where you among other things the Brazilian selection 2-0 defeated.
Tournaments
Olympic games
After 1988, the national team has not participated in the Olympics and the qualifying matches to do so. The difference Olympic Team in 2000 and 2008 in the preliminaries of.
London 2012 abolished the Olympic team again the qualification and reached by two draw against Morocco and Japan, and a 1-0 win against Spain the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Brazil with 2:3.
World cup
Championship CONCACAF
CONCACAF Nation 's Cup
In the years before World Championships, the tournament served as a World Cup qualifier.
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Central America Championship
Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup
Central American Cup
- 2011 - Winner
- 2013 - 2nd place
Copa América
Honduras took previously once ( 2001) as a visiting team as a replacement for Argentina in the Copa América in part and took it to third place. It was defeated in the quarterfinals of Brazil 2-0, the. Till now the only victory against Brazil
Cadre of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013
Source: Final Rosters (PDF, 2.0 MB) and Team Honduras
Known player
- Edgar Anthony Reyes Alvarez
- Samuel Caballero
- Maynor Figueroa
- Iván Guerrero
- Amado Guevara - most capped player
- Emilio Izaguirre
- Wilson Palacios
- Carlos Pavón - Top scorer
- Maynor René Suazo
- David Suazo
- Julio Suazo
- López Ufarte - scorer of the first World Cup goal
- Noel Valladares
- Wilmer Velásquez
Coach
International matches against German -speaking national football teams
So far, there were no games against Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein.