El Salvador, Honduras and a historic match decisive
Match flipped to war (100 hour war)
Historical background: Many of the citizens of El Salvador emigrated to Honduras neighboring their country
and due to the problems of unemployment in Honduras, expatriates were expelled from El Salvador
and relations between the two countries were strained with the development of hatred between them through the flags of the two countries
and the export of external problems to distract peoples from internal problems.
Event: 1970 World Cup Qualifiers in Mexico
Match comes out of the qualified World Cup
Match Go events June 8, 1969
The Salvadoran team traveled to Honduras
On the night of the match, the Honduran fans gathered around the hotel to disturb the El Salvador team all night
Honduras won 1-0
Honduran fans assaulted El Salvador fans, and the strongest of them. The Honduran fans assaulted the neighborhoods
where El Salvador citizens live in Honduras, and a large number of El Salvador citizens fled to their country.
(In this period, a girl committed suicide from El Salvador because of the events she witnessed on television,
and she performed a funeral procession for her from the masses, and at the forefront was the President of the Republic of El Salvador)
- The events of Match, June 15, 1969
The Honduran team traveled to El Salvador, and the same treatment took place at night, with the increase in rough treatment,
insulting the flag and the national anthem of Honduras.
El Salvador won 3-0
Match break between them was held on June 26, 1969 in Mexico, and El Salvador won 3-2 in overtime
El Salvador goals in the break
El Salvador qualified for the World Cup and war broke out between the two countries
(Throughout this period, there was an assault on the communities of the two countries, stealing, looting, killing, torturing, burning shops and riots ........ etc.)
- A video in which El Salvador won, qualified, and deployed forces on the borders of the two countries
On July 3, a plane from Honduras penetrated the borders of El Salvador, and on July 14, the issue was repeated, but with a number of warplanes.
The forces were deployed on the borders of the two countries, and the war began on July 14, 1969,
with a land and air attack by El Salvador on the borders of Honduras.
And occupied parts of it
Honduras responded and tried to destroy the air force of El Salvador and hit bombs on cities in El Salvador, including the capital, San Salvador.
And the war ended after American pressure.
The death toll reached nearly 2,000 and 12,000 injured
The diplomatic ties between the two countries were severed and returned after 11 years with a peace agreement in 1980.