Soccer World Cup 2010 / Honduras

This article covers the Honduran national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified via the CONCACAF qualifying games for the World Cup in South Africa .

Because of a bye for the first round, the team only took part from the second qualifying round, where it clearly prevailed with a 4-0 win and a 2-2 draw from a round trip against Puerto Rico .

In the third round, the team under national coach Reinaldo Rueda met Mexico , Jamaica and Canada . In the rather strong group, Honduras ranked first after four wins and two defeats from six games and thus reached the fourth qualifying round.

There, the national team of Honduras met the USA , Mexico , Costa Rica , El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago .

Second round

June 4, 2008 : Honduras - Puerto Rico 4: 0 (1: 0)

June 14, 2008 : Puerto Rico – Honduras 2: 2 (2: 1)

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Honduras	9: 5	12
2	Mexico	9: 6	10
3	Jamaica	6: 6	10
4th	Canada	6:13	2

August 20, 2008 : Mexico 2-1 Honduras (0-1)

September 6, 2008 : Canada 1-2 Honduras (1-0)

September 10, 2008 : Honduras - Jamaica 2-0 (0-0)

October 11, 2008 : Honduras - Canada 3: 1 (1: 0)

October 15, 2008 : Jamaica - Honduras 1-0 (1-0)

November 19, 2008 : Honduras 1-0 Mexico (0-0)

Fourth round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	19:13	20th
2	Mexico	16:10	19th
3	Honduras	17:11	16
4th	Costa Rica	15:15	16
5	El Salvador	9:15	8th
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	10:22	6th

February 11, 2009 : Costa Rica - Honduras 2-0 (0-0)

March 28, 2009 : Trinidad and Tobago - Honduras 1: 1 (0: 0)

April 1, 2009 : Honduras 3-1 Mexico (2-0)

June 6, 2009 : USA - Honduras 2: 1 (1: 1)

June 10, 2009 : Honduras - El Salvador 1: 0 (1: 0)

August 12, 2009 : Honduras - Costa Rica 4: 0 (1: 0)

September 5, 2009 : Honduras - Trinidad and Tobago 4: 1 (2: 0)

September 9, 2009 : Mexico - Honduras 1-0 (0-0)

October 10, 2009 : Honduras - USA 2: 3 (0: 0)

October 14, 2009 : El Salvador - Honduras 0: 1 (0: 0)

Honduran contingent

National coach Reinaldo Rueda nominated his final World Cup squad on May 11, 2010, one month before the registration deadline. In addition to the 23 players for the World Cup, Rueda also nominated seven reserve players ( Kevin Hernández , Melvin Valladares (both Real España), Carlo Costly (FC Vaslui / Romania), Mariano Acevedo , Erick Norales (both Marathón), Jerry Palacios (Hangzhou Nabel Greentown / China), Johnny Leverón (Motagua)) to compensate for any injury-related losses. Shortly before the opening game, Julio César de León had to leave injured and was replaced by Jerry Palacios. This means that for the first time in World Cup history, Jerry, Johnny and Wilson Palacios are three brothers in one team at the same time.

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ricardo Canales	CD Motagua	05/30/1982	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Noel Valladares	CD Olimpia	05/03/1977	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Donis Escober	CD Olimpia	02/03/1981	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Osman Chavez	CD Platense	07/29/1984	3	0	1	0	0
3	Maynor Figueroa	Wigan Athletic	05/02/1983	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Johnny Palacios	CD Olimpia	December 20, 1986	0	0	0	0	0
5	Víctor Bernárdez	RSC Anderlecht	05/24/1982	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Boniek García	CD Olimpia	09/04/1984	0	0	0	0	0
16	Mauricio Sabillón	Hangzhou Greentown	11/11/1978	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Emilio Izaguirre	CD Motagua	05/10/1986	2	0	1	0	0
23	Sergio Mendoza	CD Motagua	05/23/1981	2	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Hendry Thomas	Wigan Athletic	02/23/1985	2	0	1	0	0
7th	Ramón Nuñez	CD Olimpia	11/14/1985	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Wilson Palacios	Tottenham Hotspur	07/29/1984	3	0	2	0	0
10	Jerry Palacios	Hangzhou Greentown	05/13/1982	2	0	0	0	0
13	Róger Espinoza	Sporting Kansas City	10/25/1986	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Edgar Álvarez	AS Bari	01/08/1980	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Danilo Turcios	CD Olimpia	05/08/1978	2	0	1	0	0
20th	Amado Guevara	CD Motagua	05/02/1976	2	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Carlos Pavón	Real España	10/09/1973	1	0	0	0	0
11	David Suazo	CFC genoa	05/11/1979	2	0	1	0	0
12	Georgie Welcome	CD Motagua	03/09/1985	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Walter Julián Martínez	CD Marathon	March 24, 1982	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Reinaldo Rueda		04/16/1957

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Spain	4: 2	6th
2	Chile	3: 2	6th
3	Switzerland	1: 1	4th
4th	Honduras	0: 3	1

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Honduran national team met in Group H against Spain , Switzerland and Chile . In the three games Honduras failed to score and so they were eliminated with two defeats and one draw as bottom of the table.

• Wednesday June 16, 2010; 1:30 p.m. in Nelspruit Honduras - Chile 0: 1 (0: 1)
  

• Monday June 21, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Johannesburg Spain - Honduras 2: 0 (1: 0)
  

• Friday June 25, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Mangaung / Bloemfontein Switzerland - Honduras 0: 0
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honduras: Palacios brothers set world championship record. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . June 16, 2010, accessed February 24, 2016 .