Five minute search on Wikipedia tells me this: Belize professional league founded in 1991. Guatemala professional league founded in 1942. El Salvador professional league founded in 1926 (League began in 1924, although it was limited to teams from the capital. National wide league began in 1926) Honduras professional league founded in 1964. Nicaragua professional league founded in 1933. Costa Rica professional league founded in 1921. Panama professional league founded in 1988. It is Wikipedia, so take it for what it's worth. At best they could be taken as estimates, unless a second source can confirm all the information listed for each league.
Well try and read through Wikipedia and you might find it useful. I assume you've used Wikipedia before right? If that's not enough for you, then you might have to check the official league websites and have a read through. Good luck.
Try click in on the links....CLICK ON THE PICTURE THAT SAYS 1901-1919. Than click on 1920 - 1929 etc etc C'mon dude put a little effort into your own research.
Exactly! Why dont you just take 30 minutes to look it up yourself. It's really not that hard. Either that, or wait a few days until someone actually decides to help you and respond to your post. But then, they might not give you the infomation your looking for so your best bet would be to look it up yourself. Good luck
he is asking for professional leagues, not for amateur leagues, so the question is, when do the centroamerican leagues become professional? and i would say that the CRn league became professional after the 1990 WC
Yeah i'm well aware of what the question is, and although you'd know more about Costa Rican football then i would, i can safely say that atleast the Salvadoran league has been professional since atleast the 1940's. I can't guarentee that players were getting paid back in 1926, but i don't think it's unrealistic to say they very well might have been.
eg... Nicaragua had professional league in 1933..? I don't think so.... & do you think Belize have professional league?
Aguila has 50 years of being a profesinal club, fas i think is about 70 years old. Dragon, Platense, and Im not sure who else are the old ones. Dragon is still in third division I think, they have been around forever, my uncle played for them under Cariota. Quequeisque or something like that was the fist national champ I think, they were from San Miguel too, in the earliest 20s, Im not sure though, this what my grandpa told me. You will have to go online and research better. The cool thing is that the first national champ was Migueleno, esque somos talegudos, la mera v.. en salsa Se viene el carnaval mejor y mas grande de centro america hijosdelmaiz, el carnaval de san mike
about Costa Rica.... past great players like Alexandre Guimaraes were foreign born... he was part-time player during 1980s in Deportivo Saprissa ?
The Belizian league is still semi-pro, and so are a few of Nicaragua's teams, and none of those leagues were fully professional until long after they started. In Costa Rica, several of them existed before the twenties( Alajuelense founded 1919, Herediano founded 1918, Cartago founded 1906,) and the league was more or less pro before WWII. Our best ever player came out of Alajuelense in the 1920s, Alejandro Morera, he started for Alajuelense when he was 16, toured Mexico and South America with them, and was picked up by Barcelona, where he went on to become MVP/top scorer, and won the title with them. Saprissa didn't even exist then and weren't in the first division until almost the 1950s. Full time And he was raised(and learned more of most of his footie) in Costa Rica.
Yeah, all of the stats on other countries was taken from wikipedia, so it's not a reliable source. It does list when the league's were founded, but does not state when they turned professional. The only league i can comment on with some knowledge, is the Salvadoran one. And as i listed before, it has been pro since atleast 1940, and although i can't say 100% it was pro before then, it's not to far outside the realms of possibility to say that it was.
so would you say that in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s all the players from ES were only soccer players, meaning that they didnt work in something else?, do u think they all made enough for living from soccer?
Our leagues(Costa Rica's and El Salvador's) are CONCACAF's oldest with their longest-standing traditions. And I didn't know Saprissa was founded by a Salvadorian Learned something new. Most likely just the major clubs, just like in the CRL. About three or four of the clubs currently in the Primera Division have only been around for five years(like Brujas and Santacrucena,) while some of the clubs that existed 70 years ago aren't there anymore(like Sociedad Gimnastica Espanola.) Clubs like Aguila and Luis Angel Firpo have probably been pro for a long time, considering they've been around since the 20s.
Theres no doubt that ES and CRC have the oldest leagues, it's no surprise brah. And yes Ricardo Saprissa was a guanaco.
Even thouh I will have to look more into it, teams like La Constancia (now Alianza) and Dragon they talked of competing vrs Penarol and south american super powers back then, Aguila had a brazilian player who used to play for the brazilian national team Yeah Im assuming they were semipro teams for a very short period of time, Salvadorenos are just too competitive to fool around with something... i know i know we have suck lately but in El Salvador, most of the pro players now start making money when they are about 17 years old, some of them when they are 15. When it comes to the big clubs like Aguila, they are provided with houses and stuff like that bc they are from the big cities where the money is. Aguila, Fas, Firpo, Alianza, they all build teams going after the championship every year so they i dont think they were "semipro" for too long. We have an Aguilucho frase that says. " Aguila not tuvo infancia, desde que naciamos fuimos grandes." It means that the first year we went into Liga Mayor we bought all the good players from Dragon, including Cariota Barraza and we won the league... thats how dominant Aguila was after winning second division. Another interesting story about Aguila is that it was Basketball team first, then bc of the Nicaraguense migration to San Miguel, the team started with baseball, then it became a soccer team and we have been the best of El Salvador since then. Our older brother is Dragon though and Quequeisque was our first representative in the national league.