Puerto Rican national soccer team

Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Nickname (s)

El Huracan Azul

Association

Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol

confederacy

CONCACAF

Head coach

Elgy Morales (since 2019)

captain

Marco Velez

Record scorer

Hector Ramos (13)

Record player

Alexis Rivera Curet (27)

Home stadium

Estadio Juan Ramón
Loubriel

FIFA code

PURE

FIFA rank

178. (941 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)

First jersey

Second jersey

statistics

First international match Cuba 1-1 Puerto Rico ( Cuba ; November 12, 1940 )

Biggest win Puerto Rico 9-0 Saint-Martin ( Port-au-Prince , Haiti ; September 9, 2012 )

Biggest defeat Netherlands Antilles 15-0 Puerto Rico ( Caracas , Venezuela ; January 7, 1959 )

(As of October 27, 2012)

The Puerto Rican national soccer team is the national soccer team of the US-American suburb of Puerto Rico . The team belongs to the sporty middle class of the continental association CONCACAF . So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup or the World Cup.

The US national soccer player Chris Armas , who has completed more than 50 internationals for the USA, originally already played five internationals for Puerto Rico. However, since these were not official internationals, he was still eligible to play for the USA.

In Germany, the team gained attention when it became known that the association wanted to hire Felix Magath as a coach or consultant. Magath's father was born in Puerto Rico.

Tournaments

World Championship

1930 to 1970 - did not participate
1974 - In qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany , they met Haiti in group 5 in the first round and were eliminated with 0: 7 and 0: 5.
1978 and 1982 - did not participate
1986 - In qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , they met El Salvador in the first round in Group 1 and were eliminated with 0: 5 and 0: 3.
1990 - In qualifying for the 1990 World Cup in Italy , they met Jamaica in the first round and were eliminated after two defeats with 0: 1 and 1: 2.
1994 - In the qualification for the 1994 World Cup in the United States to put in the Caribbean Zone 2 of the first round first with 2: 1 and 1: 1 against the Dominican Republic through, but then retired with 1: 2 and 0: 1 against Jamaica from .
1998 - In qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in France , they met the team from St. Vincent in Caribbean zone 3 of the preliminary round . After two defeats they were eliminated 1: 2 and 0: 7.
2002 - In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , they were drawn in Caribbean zone 1 in the 1st round against Aruba and were eliminated 2: 2 and 2: 4.
2006 - did not participate
2010 - As part of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , the team met the Dominican Republic national team in the first round of the CONCACAF zone . The game in Bayamón (Puerto Rico), which took place on March 26, 2008, could be won 1-0. Next Puerto Rico had to play against the national team of Honduras . The first leg on June 4, 2008 in San Pedro Sula ( Honduras ) ended 0: 4. The second leg took place in Bayamon on June 14 and ended 2-2. With this result Puerto Rico was eliminated.

2014 - In the qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil they met in the second round in Group D in Canada , St. Kitts and Nevis , and St. Lucia . After two wins, three draws and only one defeat, the group finished second behind Canada and was eliminated.

2018 - In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , the team met the team from Grenada in the second round in June 2015 and were eliminated 1-0 and 0-2.