UNCAF Copa de Naciones (R)

[sidspaceman]

Guatemala scored an early goal and held on to defeat a scrappy Honduras side 2:1 to capture the third and final Central Zone qualifying berth to the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup on the last day of matches at the UNCAF Copa de Naciones at Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panamá.
The victory puts Guatemala on 10 points, tying them with Costa Rica (who play the hosts in the afternoon’s second match) and one point ahead of El Salvador. Honduras drop to fourth place pending the result of the nightcap, important because the fourth-placed team enters a play-off with two to-be-determined Caribbean teams for the final spot in this summer’s Confederation Championship for national teams.

http://concacaf.com/news/article.page/1228

[desertfox2]

Costa Rica has won 1:0 over Panama winning the UNCAF tournament while knocking the hosts out of the Gold Cup at the same time. With this result, both Panama and Honduras have 4 points and a -1 goal differential. Next tie-breaker is goals for which Honduras leads by one goal. A real shame for Panama. I really thought they were better especially playing at home. Now Honduras will play the 2 runners-up in the two Caribbean groups. Should be interesting.

[Sachin]

So what does the table look like?

Sachin

[Eliezar]

Costa Rica 13pts 4W 0L 1T
Guatemala 10pts 3W 1L 1T
El Salvador 9pts 3W 2L 0T
Honduras 4pts 1W 3L 1T
Panama 4pts 1W 3L 1T
Nicaragua 3pts 1W 4L 0T

Something like that

[Red Harvest]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030223/capt.1046048588uncaf_costa_rica_pan110.jpg

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030223/capt.1046048415uncaf_costa_rica_pan109.jpg

[efernandez9]

number 8 the only one allowed at the podium did NOT look too happy!

now Honduras - by a flip of a coin that beat the overall tie to panama- will battle Haiti and superCUBA in april (no venue decided yet) to see the gold Cup games.