Soccer World Cup 1982 / El Salvador

This article covers the El Salvador national soccer team at the 1982 World Cup .

qualification

Central American Zone

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Honduras	15: 5	12
2	El Salvador	12: 5	12
3	Guatemala	10: 2	9
4th	Costa Rica	6:10	6th
5	Panama	3:24	1

Panama	-	El Salvador	1: 3
El Salvador	-	Panama	4: 1
El Salvador	-	Costa Rica	2-0
Guatemala	-	El Salvador	0-0
El Salvador	-	Honduras	2: 1
Honduras	-	El Salvador	2-0
Costa Rica	-	El Salvador	0-0
El Salvador	-	Guatemala	1-0

Final round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Honduras	8: 1	8th
2	El Salvador	2: 1	6th
3	Mexico	6: 3	5
4th	Canada	6: 6	5
5	Cuba	4: 8	4th
6th	Haiti	2: 9	2

Canada	-	El Salvador	1-0
Mexico	-	El Salvador	0: 1
El Salvador	-	Cuba	0-0
Honduras	-	El Salvador	0-0
Haiti	-	El Salvador	0: 1

Salvadoran contingent

number	Surname	Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
1	Luis Guevara Mora	CD Platense Municipal	09/02/1961
19th	Eduardo Hernández	CD Santiagueño	01/31/1958
20th	José Luis Munguía	CD FAS	10/28/1959
Defense
2	Mario Castillo	CD Santiagueño	10/30/1951
3	José Francisco Jovel	CD Águila	05/26/1951
4th	Carlos Recinos	CD FAS	06/30/1950
5	Ramón Fagoaga	Atlético Marte	01/12/1952
12	Francisco Osorto	CD Santiagueño	03/20/1957
15th	Jaime Rodríguez	Bayer Uerdingen	January 17, 1959
18th	Miguel Angel Díaz	Atlético Marte	01/27/1957
midfield
6th	Joaquín Ventura	CD Santiagueño	10/27/1956
7th	Silvio Aquino	FC Alianza	06/30/1949
8th	José Luis Rugamas	Atlético Marte	06/05/1953
10	Norberto Huezo	Atlético Marte	06/06/1956
16	Mauricio Alfaro	CD Platense Municipal	02/13/1956
attack
9	Ever Francisco Hernández	CD Santiagueño	December 11, 1958
11	Mágico González	CD FAS	03/13/1958
13	José María Rivas	FC Alianza	05/12/1958
14th	Luis Ramírez	Atlético Marte	01/06/1954
17th	Guillermo Ragazzone	Atlético Marte	05/01/1956
Trainer
	Mauricio Rodríguez		09/12/1945

Games of the Salvadoran team

First round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	05: 10
2.	Argentina	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	04: 20
3.	Hungary	3	1	1	1	012: 600	+6	03: 30
4th	El Salvador	3	0	0	3	001:130	−12	00: 60

• Hungary - El Salvador 10: 1 (3: 0)

Stadium: Nuevo Estadio ( Elche )

Spectators: 23,000

Referee: Ibrahim Al-Doy ( Bahrain )

Goals: 1: 0 Nyilasi (4th), 2: 0 Pölöskei (11th), 3: 0 Fazekas (23rd), 4: 0 Toth (50th), 5: 0 Fazekas (54th), 5: 1 Ramírez (64th), 6: 1 Kiss (69th), 7: 1 Kiss (72nd), 8: 1 Szentes (72nd), 9: 1 Kiss (76th), 10: 1 Nyilasi (83th)

• Belgium - El Salvador 1: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Nuevo Estadio ( Elche )

Spectators: 15,000

Referee: Malcolm Moffat ( Northern Ireland )

Goals: 1-0 Coeck (19.)

• Argentina - El Salvador 2-0 (1-0)

Stadium: Estadio José Rico Pérez ( Alicante )

Spectators: 32,500

Referee: Luis Barrancos ( Bolivia )

Goals: 1-0 Passarella (22nd, penalty ), 2-0 Bertoni (52nd)

It was El Salvador's second participation in a World Cup. Against Hungary, the blatant outsider El Salvador suffered the highest World Cup defeat of all time (Yugoslavia defeated Zaire on June 18, 1974 in Gelsenkirchen 9-0 and Hungary and South Korea on June 17, 1954 in Zurich also 9-0, so that both one had the same goal difference). Against World Champion Argentina and Vice-European Champion Belgium the defeats were much smaller.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in RP-Online