By Catracha Hondurena on June 7, 2010
bi color, los catrachos, world cup 2010, World Cup South Africa
Sports in Honduras
The Honduras midfielder Wilson Palacios will be fit for the World Cup despite a leg muscle injury scare at the weekend. Palacios was carried off during a 3-0 warm-up defeat by Romania in Austria on Saturday and taken to hospital for checks on his groin. “I supposedly had a pulled abductor but I feel a […]
By Catracha Hondurena on May 27, 2010
honduras, La Selección, soccer, world cup 2010, World Cup South Africa
Honduras Soccer, Sports in Honduras
Honduras is a much better bet than Belarus on paper in terms of team history. Belarus is ranked more than 40 places below Honduras (who is ranked 38th in the world). However, so far, Honduras has lost two of their only three friendly match encounters in 2010. On March 3rd, Los Catrachos were outplayed 2-0 […]
By Catracha Hondurena on May 25, 2010
La Selección, soccer, world cup 2010, World Cup South Africa
Honduras Soccer, Sports in Honduras
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 […]
By Catracha Hondurena on May 19, 2010
honduras national team, La Selección, soccer, world cup 2010, World Cup South Africa
Sports in Honduras
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 […]
By Catracha Hondurena on May 14, 2010
honduras, La Selección, olimpia, soccer, world cup 2010
Honduras Soccer, Sports in Honduras
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 […]