The 2001
UNCAF Nations Cup
The Copa Centroamericana () was an association football competition organized by UNCAF as its top regional tournament for men's senior national teams from Central America. The tournament was held from 1991 to 2017, every two years in the years be ...
was played in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
.
Participating teams
Squads
Venues
First round
Group 1
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Group 2
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Final round
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Champions
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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 b ...
,
Costa Rica
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
and
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
qualified automatically for
2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the sixth edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF).
The tournament was once again held in the United States, in Miami and Pasadena. The forma ...
.
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
enters a playoff for qualification against
Cuba
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Goalscorers
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* Jorge Dely Valdés
Jorge Luis Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian former footballer who played as a forward. He is a twin brother of Julio Dely Valdés and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés.
Club career
Born in Colon, Dely Valdés began ...
;3 goals
* Rolando Fonseca
Rolando Fonseca Jiménez (born 6 June 1974) is a Costa Rican former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward.
Nicknamed ''El Principito'' (The little prince)''La Nación (San José), ...
* Freddy García
Freddy Antonio García (born October 6, 1976) is a Venezuelans, Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. He is best known for his many seasons with seven Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises, including the Seattle Mariners, Chicago Whi ...
* Milton Núñez
Milton Omar Núñez García (born 30 October 1972) is a retired Honduran footballer.
Nuñez played a few seasons in Honduras before moving abroad to play for Comunicaciones in Guatemala and for Nacional in Uruguay. He then briefly appeared fo ...
* Carlos Pavón
Carlos Alberto Pavón Plummer (born 9 October 1973) is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best Honduran footballers in history, and by most as the nation's greatest player ever.
Mos ...
* Julio Dely Valdés
Julio César Dely Valdés (born March 12, 1967) is a Panamanian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a twin brother of Jorge Dely Valdés and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés.
Club career
Born in Colón, Dely ...
;2 goals
* Dion Frazer
* Walter Centeno
Wálter Centeno Corea (born 6 October 1974) is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and current manager of Santos de Guapiles.
He was a regular member of the Costa Rica national team and holds th ...
* Jorge Rodríguez
* Mario Acevedo
Mario Giovany Acevedo Méndez (born February 15, 1969) is a Guatemalan football forward. He played for many local clubs, most famously CSD Municipal in the Guatemala's top division.
Club career
Nicknamed ''El Coyote'', Acevedo played the majo ...
* Dwight Pezzarossi
Dwight Anthony Pezzarossi García (born 4 September 1979) is a Guatemalan former professional football forward and manager. On 18 September 2014, Pezzarossi was named Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala.
Target man Pezzarossi, nickname ...
* Jairo Martínez
Jairo Manfredo Martínez Puerto (born 14 May 1978) is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Nicknamed ''el Kiki'', Martínez started his professional career at F.C. Motagua with whom he would spend the ...
* Alfredo Anderson
Alfredo Anderson Salazar (born October 31, 1978) is a Panamanian former football player.
Club career
He played in the Argentinos Juniors youth teams and for Plaza Amador before a spell with United Soccer League side Charleston Battery. In summe ...
;1 goal
* Mark Leslie
* Rónald Gómez
Rónald Gómez Gómez (born 24 January 1975) is a Costa Rican former football forward and manager. He is the current manager for Liga Nacional club Achuapa.
An important player on the Costa Rica national football team during the 1990s and ...
* Luis Marín
* Andrés Núñez
* Héctor Canjura
Héctor Aarón Canjura Astorga (born 15 July 1976) is a retired football player from El Salvador.
Club career
Canjura started his professional career at ADET, but then joined Luis Ángel Firpo for a long spell. He ended his career at Nejapa in ...
* Rudis Corrales
Rudis Alberto Corrales Rivera (born November 6, 1979) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.
Club career
Corrales' professional career began in 1997, when he signed a contract with Municipal Limeño. He officially made his debut that same year o ...
* Josué Galdámez
Josué Nahúm Galdámez Domínguez (born December 18, 1982, in Usulután, El Salvador) is a former Salvadoran professional footballe Club career
He started his professional career at Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño, Second Division s ...
* Fredy González
Freddy Excelino González Martínez (born 18 June 1975 in La Ceja (Colombia), La Ceja, Colombia), also known as Fredy González, is a Colombian people, Colombian road racing cyclist. He is a two-time winner of the Mountains classification in th ...
* Francisco Ramírez
* Deris Umanzor
Deris Ariel Umanzor Guevara (born 7 January 1980) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.
Club career
Deris Umanzor began his career in the youth system of Municipal Limeño and eventually moved up to the first team in 1998.
After s ...
* Denis Chen
Denis Geovani Chen Fernández (born 9 August 1977) is a Guatemalan former football defender who last played for local club Cobán Imperial in Guatemala's second division. His last name Chen in Chinese is 陈. Denis' family toured internatio ...
* Walter Estrada
Walter Estrada (born May 6, 1976 in Canalete) is a Colombian professional boxer and is the former WBA Fedecaribe Featherweight Champion.
Professional career
WBO Featherweight Championship
In his first World title fight Estrada lost to WBO Feathe ...
* Iván Guerrero
Mario Iván Guerrero Ramírez (born 30 November 1977) is a Honduran former footballer.
Career
Club
Guerrero began his career with F.C. Motagua in Honduras, playing with the team from 1996 until transferring overseas in 2000. He moved to th ...
* Jaime Rosales
Jaime Heliberto Rosales Chirinos (born 8 June 1978) is a Honduran former football defender who last played for Platense.
Club career
Rosales started his professional career at Marathón and played for several clubs in the Honduran league. A ...
* Danilo Turcios
Danilo Elvis Turcios Funez (born 8 May 1978) is a Honduran former professional football player and manager.
He was a member of the national squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
C ...
* José María Bermúdez
* Víctor Webster
Víctor Roberto Webster Flashy (born 10 January 1981) is a retired Nicaraguan footballer.
Club career
Born in Nicaragua but raised in Costa Rica, Webster played for the AD Limonense youths before making his senior debut with Pérez Zeledón. ...
* Juan Carlos Cubillas
Juan Carlos Cubillas (born 20 October 1971) is a retired Panamanian football midfielder. He is currently the manager of Panama U-17.
Club career
Cubillas spent the majority of his career with local side Tauro. In summer 2005, he went to play a ...
;1 own goal
* David Solórzano ()
References
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2001 in Central American football
2001
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2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
2000–01 in Salvadoran football
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