Chile manager Marcelo Bielsa cut Toluca striker Hector Mancilla from his preliminary World Cup squad, leaving just one more player to be dropped before his final roster has to be submitted. Mancilla won the Mexican Clausura title with Toluca on Sunday, but was trimmed from the Chilean squad one day later by Bielsa. Mancilla has […]
Honduras’ National Soccer Team arrived late today in Austria, where it will hold its pre-World Cup training camp. The Honduran players, led by coach Reinaldo Rueda, arrived after more than a four hour delay from another training camp in Heidelberg, Germany. Earlier plans to stay in the resort town of Bad Bleiberg had to be […]
This is Honduras’s second ever appearance in a World Cup after they previously qualified for the 1982 tournament where coincidentally they were also grouped with Spain as they are this time. In a group with Chile, Spain and Switzerland the Hondurans are going to find it very difficult to get out of this group, as […]
With his four-wheel drive BMW in the car park, his four-bedroom house nearby, fashionable training shoes and clothes, Hendry Thomas has come a long way from a childhood where money, if not food, was in short supply. It is clear, from spending a few moments in his company, that his background was a long, long […]
Honduras’ Midfielder Danilo Elvis Turcios, who has 80 Honduras caps, sustained a left knee injury on Saturday, which may have ended his 2010 World Cup dream. “We suspect it could be a medial collateral ligament, that there could be a pull or even a rupture…This would mean surgery, which would leave him out of the […]