Better to watch football in the country where "football war" once happened ....

Soccer WarWhat was the war broke out in 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras as a result of the football game. When I watched football in Honduras, a nationally active country in football, in a situation where the stadium finally wrapped up in flames and smoke ... ....

Hello.World newspaperIt is Matsuzaki Atsushi of. I am in the circle around the world, now I am in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. Central America also left Costa Rica and Panama only. It is South America from February!

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Well this time I talked about watching soccer in Honduras. What was the football fever of the country where the football war was once? Considering that, even though I stayed, I did not stand, I hurried to the stadium.

Soccer War (1969)
Alias: 100 Hours of War, El Salvador / Honduras War

【Progress】

June 8
Honduras vs. El Salvador's qualifying round 1 will be held in the capital city of Honduras · Tegucigalpa over the competition of the FIFA World Cup · Mexico tournament. The result is 1-0 and Honduras wins. At this time, El Salvadoran woman (18 years old) who was enthusiastic football fan will make a pistol suicide. At her funeral, El Salvador's representative and president and others will rush in and so on, it will become a big event.

June 15
The second round was held in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. El Salvador wins 3-0 and connects hope to the final game.

June 27
In the third game, El Salvador won 3-2 after the extension. Just before the game, El Salvador scoffed diplomatic relations and threatened Honduras, but Honduras, who lost the game, responded with disconnection and the relationship between the two countries was in the worst state.

July 14
El Salvador's Air Force invaded Honduras. Bombed over a dozen places of Honduras' main airports and military facilities.

July 15
Four Honduran Air Force aircraft invaded the territory of El Salvador. Bomb airfield and others. After that, bombing by both military continued. The El Salvador army invaded the Honduras territory with an army infantry unit (about 12,000 people).

July 29
The El Salvador army completed withdrawal, a ceasefire was established. There were thousands of deaths on both sides.

that's all,"Soccer War - WikipediaQuoted from ".

We will face the National Stadium in the suburbs of the capital city of Tegucigalpa. It seems there is an international match between local popular team · Olympia and Costa Rica team this day.


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Three hours before the start of the game awesome people


Congestion is occurring


Almost all Olympia supporters


Cheer team


Olympia team color red and blue


Aunt Supporter


A young man in a Duffy shop also supporters


Let's buy a ticket without losing it


I got it safely. In the seat which will be the cheapest on the back stand side, 90 lenpilla (about 360 yen).


I will enter the stadium.


Well. Still entering is parting.


Backstand with my seat


Numbers are given, but everyone ignores me sitting


Main stand. There is a chair properly here.


A cheering team gathered under the light bulletin board, and it is raising the mind as soon as possible


A man who seems to be a leader


There were also many boys supporters


Confetti in the hands of supporters. Later this will invite a terrible situation ... ....


What a barbed wire is also.


A considerable number is climbing


We also climb onto the fence


Well, shall we eat rice before the game?


Juju


Grilled meat set meal, with tortilla (approx. 320 yen)


The meat is hard and it is a masuin, but the sauce that the spice has worked tightly covers it


Oh, the game seems to start


Beginning game! Black is Olympia.


Everyone seems to devour themselves. Everyone except the cheering party is well behaved


The game itself does not hit so hard, it is quite Yuri.


Still, the venue shook the moment of the goal


Cheering team spread big flag


Flag will be collected


In the meantime, about 5 seconds early technique


To half time. Everyone is drinking beer from daytime.


Because it is a friendly game, I do not feel like being enthusiastic about that. Even the cheering team has been raising songs and clapping hands all the time, but it seems not to be pretty lucky. Well, it was the calm before the storm ... ....

Olympia reached the lead in the latter part of the second half, Olympia to some of the players who seem to retire this match at the end. I am surrounded by the cheers of the day.


At that moment, the cheering group began to burn a smoke cylinder.


I will post it.


A ring of smoke pipe spreads


Supporters sending out players to retire by cooking smoking cylinders in Honduras - YouTube


Very fantastic sight. The cheering group keep singing singing players' singing.


When I thought that the smoking tube was over, the cheering group began launching fireworks


Don


The venue is no longer a festival


The lighting of the venue falls for some reason at the same time as the game ends. As if to signal it, the audience invaded the pitch!


Goals like this too


Everybody wanted to go near by a little retired player.


At the end the police entered, the flush was completed


But the festival is not over yet. How a cheering party has smoke from a corner ... ....


I do not know anything, but I am on fire!


It seems that someone set fire on the confetti on the floor


Everyone is happily running around in the fire


It has burned considerably ... ....


As I left the stadium and saw it from the outside, smoke was rising


Eventually the fire engines will be dispatched ... ....


Awesome, Honduras football. The soccer war country is not Date.

(Sentence / picture: World Newspaper / Atsushi Matsuzaki
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