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1989 CONCACAF Championship Qualification
A total of 16 CONCACAF teams entered the competition, but FIFA rejected the entry of Belize due to outstanding debt. There would be two rounds of play: *First Round: Canada, Honduras, El Salvador, United States and Mexico, the five best ranked teams according to FIFA, received byes and advanced to the Second Round directly. The remaining 10 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Second Round. *Second Round: The 10 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the tournament. Entrants * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CONCACAF first round Summary Matches Trinidad and Tobago ''advanced to the Second Round, 5–0 on aggregate score.'' ---- Guatemala ''advanced to the Second Round, 2–1 on aggregate score.'' ---- Jamaica ''advanced to the Second Round, 3–1 on aggregate score.'' ---- Netherlands Antilles ''advanced to the Second Round, 4&ndas ...
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CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football. Its 41 member associations represent countries and territories mainly in North America, including the Caribbean and Central America, and, for geopolitics, geopolitical reasons, 3 nations from the Guianas Subregion#South America, subregion of South America-Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (an overseas department and region, overseas region of French Fifth Republic, France). The CONCACAF's primary functions are to organize competitions for national teams and clubs, and to conduct the FIFA World Cup, World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup, Women's World Cup qualifying tournaments. The CONCACAF was founded in its current form on 18 September 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico, with the merger of the North American Football Confederation, NAFC and the Con ...
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San Fernando, Trinidad And Tobago
San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando, is the most populous city and second most populous municipality in Trinidad and Tobago, after Chaguanas. Sando, as it is known to many local Trinidadians, occupies 19 km2 and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad. It is bounded to the north by the Guaracara River, the south by the Oropouche River, the east by the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, and the west by the Gulf of Paria. The former borough was elevated to the status of a city corporation on 18 November 1988. The motto of San Fernando is: ''"Sanitas Fortis"'' - ''In a Healthy Environment We Will Find Strength''. San Fernando is called Trinidad and Tobago's "industrial capital" because of its proximity to the Pointe-à-Pierre oil refinery and many other petrochemical, LNG, iron and steel and aluminium smelters in places such as Point Lisas in Couva, Point Fortin, and La Brea. Geography Of Trinidad and Tobago San Fernando is a coastal city. I ...
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras. The territory of modern Guatemala hosted the core of the Maya civilization, which extended across Mesoamerica; in the 16th century, most of this was Spanish conquest of Guatemala, conquered by the Spanish and claimed as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence from Spain and Mexico in 1821. From 1823 to 1841, it was part of the Federal Republic of Central America. For the latter half of the 19th century, Guatemala suffered instability and civil strife. From the early 20th century, it was ruled by a series of dictators backed by the United States. In 1944, authoritarian leader Jorge Ubico was overthrown by a pro-democratic m ...
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San Marcos, Guatemala
San Marcos is a city and municipality in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of San Marcos. The municipality has a population of 47,063 (2018 census). History 1897 Quetzaltenango Revolt In September 1897, after the failure of both the interoceanic railroad and the Central American Expo and the deep economic crisis that Guatemala was facing after the plummeting international prices of both coffee and silver, the people of Quetzaltenango raised in arms against the decision of president José María Reina Barrios to extend his presidential term until 1902. A group of rebels, among them a former Secretary of Reina Barrios's cabinet - Próspero Morales-, began to combat on 7 September 1897 attacking San Marcos; after several battles and some gains in Ocos, Coatepeque and Colomba the rebels were definitely defeated on 4 October 1897. As a result, on 23 October 1897, San Pedro Sacatepéquez became the capital of San Marcos Department. 20th century In 1903 the ...
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Estadio Marquesa De La Ensenada
Estadio Marquesa de la Ensenada is a football stadium in San Marcos, Guatemala. It is home to Liga Nacional club Marquense and has an 11,000-seat capacity. History Opened on 22 April 1963, it was named after the nobiliary title of Maria Barrios Aparicio, Marquesa viuda de la Ensenada, a native of San Lorenzo, San Marcos, who donated the land and funds for construction of the stadium and other projects. The stadium's construction cost was Q 186,000. On 15 May 1988 the stadium hosted a World Cup qualification match, in which Guatemala drew 1-1 against Cuba in the second leg of a home-and-away elimination series in front of 18,000 people. It was the first time that the Guatemala national team played an official match in San Marcos. The second leg of the final of the 2007 ''Clausura'' tournament was played between the local team Marquense and Xelajú MC Quetzaltenango (, also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela ) is a municipality and namesake department in western Guate ...
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Carlos González (Cuban Footballer)
Carlos González may refer to: Politics *Carlos González (American politician), American politician from Massachusetts * Carlos González Cepeda (1949–2025), Spanish businessman and politician * Carlos Hank González (1927–2001), Mexican politician and businessman * Carlos Joaquín González (born 1965), Mexican politician * Carlos Zatarain González (born 1961), Mexican politician Sports Football * Carlos Gonzales (born 1989), Peruvian football forward *Carlos González (footballer, born 1935), Mexican football forward * Carlos González (footballer, born 1960), Chilean football manager and former player * Carlos González (footballer, born 1963), Argentine football midfielder * Carlos González (footballer, born 1973), Mexican football midfielder * Carlos González (footballer, born 1976), Paraguayan football midfielder * Carlos González (footballer, born 1977), Mexican football defender and manager * Carlos González (footballer, born 1986), Paraguayan football striker * ...
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Byron Pérez
Byron Romeo Pérez Solórzano (born 18 March 1959) is a Guatemalan football coach and former player who spent most of his career with local club Comunicaciones, and was also a member of the Guatemala national team for over a decade, playing in three World Cup qualifying campaigns and at the Olympic Games. Club career Nicknamed "''El Duende''" ("the elf") due to his short height (he is 1.64 m tall), Pérez was a talented forward who played primarily on the left wing. He began his professional career with Comunicaciones in the late 1970s, and would go on to become one of the symbols of that club. He helped Comunicaciones win the 1978 CONCACAF title as he scored a goal against CD Once Municipal in the 3-1 victory in the first leg of the first round of the tournament. He also had stints with Municipal, Galcasa, Suchitepéquez, Once Lobos of El Salvador, Aurora F.C., and Deportivo Jalapa. In 1988 his services were required by the then Mexican top-flight club Leones Negros de la ...
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Federación Nacional Autónoma De Fútbol De Honduras
The Honduras Football Federation (), known as FFH, is the official football governing body in Honduras and is in charge of the Honduras national team. FFH was founded in 1951 and joined FIFA the same year. It joined CONCACAF in 1961. As of April 11, 2024, the federation officially rebranded from the National Autonomous Football Federation of Honduras (FENAFUTH) to Football Federation of Honduras (FFH), changing name, logo and colours. Association staff See also * Sport in Honduras ** Football in Honduras *** Women's football in Honduras * Honduras national football team * Honduras women's national football team References External links FENAFUTH official websiteat FIFA.com Honduras Football in Honduras Hon Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... ...
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ...
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Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba
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It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ...
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Estadio Pedro Marrero
Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. Built as a baseball stadium, it is now used primarily for football matches, and is the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana. The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929. Originally named Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical (or familiarly, La Tropical), it hosted the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games, the 1937 Bacardi Bowl and many Cuban League baseball games. After the revolution, it was renamed for Pedro Marrero, a young man who died in the attack on the Moncada Barracks. History During the golden age of Cuban baseball, La Tropical was the home of the Cuban League from the early 1930s to 1946. It also hosted major international events, including five Amateur World Series tournaments from 1939 to 1943. However, it was displaced as the temple of Cuban baseball after the construction of the nearby Estadio El Cerro (the modern Estadio Latinoamericano) in 1946. After 1946, La Tropica ...
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Juan Manuel López (Guatemalan Footballer)
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish language, Spanish and Manx language, Manx versions of ''John (given name), John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippines, and also in the Isle of Man (pronounced differently). The name is becoming popular around the world and can be pronounced differently according that region. In Spanish language, Spanish, the diminutive form (equivalent to ''Johnny'') is , with feminine form (comparable to ''Jane'', ''Joan'', or ''Joanna'') , and feminine diminutive (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc.). Chinese terms * ( or 娟, 隽) 'beautiful, graceful' is a common given name for Chinese women. * () The Chinese character :wiktionary:卷, 卷, which in Mandarin is almost homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be tran ...
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