Friday, January 1, 2010

Guatemala Soccer Team Overview

Football Association is the official name of the football team to Guatemala in international matches and it falls under the direct command of the Federación Nacional de Futbol de Guatemala. Football Association was founded in 1919 became a member of CONCACAF, and she became an employee of FIFA in 1946.

Even if the team failed to qualify once for the World Cup, she has three Olympic Games, bringing back symptoms. They were able to participate in 1968Olympic Games 1976 and then led the Olympics in 1988.

Their best performance to date is the UNCAF Nations Cup, where she became world champion in 2001. The Guatemala won the 1967 3. CONCACAF championship. They came as the fourth placer in the Gold Cup in 1996 and was considered the team performance higher. Another good team performance that brought a silver medal in 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela.

Athe most important events in the football world, the country hosted the FIFA Futsal World Cup in 2000. It is the only international football, means that the country was able to host and nothing more.

The current line-up of the national football team are the Guatemala goalkeeper Luis Pedro Molina and Luis Trigueño Foster directs Edwin Villatoro, Selvin Motta, Dwight Pezzarossi and Mario Rodriguez, a center fielderts Marvin Avila, Leonel Noriega, Freddy Thompson,Rigoberto Gomez and Jose Manuel Contreras and defensive players, including Jaime Vides, Christian Noriega, Pablo Melgar, Gustavo Cabrera and Yony Flores.

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