This is the thread for all Honduran Sub-20 and Sub-17 team news going into 2013 Youth World Cups. Sub-20: Sub-17:
List of Sub-20 Call-ups for Micro-Ciclo en Tegucigalpa running from next Monday to Thursday: 1.Tulio Cruz - Motagua 2. Joshua Matamoros - Motagua 3. Ramón Amador - Motagua 4. David Carranza - Motagua 5. Santos Crisanto - Motagua 6. Arnold Melendez - Motagua 7. Carlos Valentín - Olimpia 8. Jonathan Tejada - Olimpia 9. José Escalante - Olimpia 10. Allan Torres - Olimpia 11. Roberto Díaz - Real España 12. Jefry Flores - Real España 13. Eder Velásquez - Real España 14. Kelvin Núñez - Real España 15. Oscar Roque - Real España 16. Bryan Róchez - Real España 17. Julio Moncada - Platense 18. Nixon Duarte - Platense 19. Claudio Viera - Olimpia Liga Mayor 20. Arnaldo Alvarado - Necaxa 21. José Barralaga - Real Sociedad (Liga de Ascenso) 22. Omar Toro - Parrillas One (Liga de Ascenso) 23. Gerson Cárcamo - Marathón 24. Tony Cerrato - Valencia (Liga de Ascenso) 25. Manuel Mejía - Sula (Liga de Ascenso) I only heard of a select few like Bryan Rochez of Real Espana, Carlos Valentin of Olimpia, and Julio Moncada of Platense. the rest I've never heard of.
http://www.latribunadeportiva.hn/2012/02/09/sub-20-igualo-1-1-con-motagua/ Honduras Sub-20 tied with C.D. Motagua 1-1 this morning.
Sub-20 Microciclo: Jugador Equipo Luis López - Real España Kelvin Caballero - Real España Ángel Contreras - Marathón Ángel Calix - Marathón Drogby Benítez - Motagua Ángel Jiménez - Motagua Wilmerton Lalín - Motagua René Chamorro - Motagua David Gutiérrez - Olimpia Germán Mejía - Olimpia Marvin Melgar - Platense Mathew Rivera Toledo - Platense Scott Crisanto - Atlético Choloma Josué Figueroa - Atlético Municipal Tito Emmanuel - Atlético Municipal Harold Smith - Las Mercedes Edgar Romero - Las Mercedes Jonathan Colón - Parrillas One Elvis Ramos - Platense Freddy Matute - San Isidro Elías Lanza - Necaxa Gustavo Herrera - Motagua Orlin Hernandez - Sula Christopher Urmeneta - Necaxa Only player I can pinpoint is Urmeneta of Necaxa. He's already playing for the senior squad and has already scored a goal in La Clausura. I hear a lot of raving reviews about this kid, iirc he's 17 yrs of age.
The Schedule for the CONCACAF U-20 and U-17 Tournaments have been released: CONCACAF/UNCAF Preliminares Sub-20 Host: Honduras Date: July 17th-21st Group A: Honduras, Nicaragua, y Costa Rica CONCACAF/UNCAF Preliminares Sub-20 Host: Guatemala Date: July 25th-29th Group B: El Salvador, Panama, y Guatemala Top 2 from Group A&B automatically qualify for the Final CONCACAF Sub-20 Qualification Round. CONCACAF/UNCAF Preliminares Sub-17 Host: Guatemala Date: December 3rd-16th Pentagonal: Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, y El Salvador Top 3 teams automatically qualify for the Final CONCACAF Sub-20 Qualification Round.
DT Padilla going to the US in search of young Honduran talent. Najar's brothers will surely be in the Youth Honduran teams I assume, if this DC United kid, Austin Salmeron is going to be on the Youth team since they all play together in DC United's reserve teams.
U-20 news, El Salvador couldn't get their U-20 ready in time, which means Honduras will only play a series of friendlies with Los Chapines:
Looks like a new Honduran U-20 trialist from the US has showed up. His name is Erick Bryan Haylock Ruiz, and he's a goalkeeper for the West Ham Academy in the U.S.. He's the second American-Honduran to try-out for a U-20 spot. The first was New York RedBull Academy's midfielder, Roger Cabrera Girón, who didn't make the team due to the fact that they already have his spot well covered with deep talent.:
Honduras U-20 losing 2-1 to Guatemala: They have a lot of work to do.. I also question his player selection. Tejada for Olimpia, Jeffrey Flores for Real Espana, Mishek Avila y Barrios for Motagua are all eligible to play for the U-20 team and have already found minutes within the senior squad of their respective clubs.
U-17 Honduran side record their first win in the Copa Saprissa after beating Panamanian club, Chorrillo F.C., after losing their first game to hosts Costa Rica U-17 and then drawing with the US U-17 side:
This current batch of U-20 Hondurans are the worst batch of U-20 players I have ever seen as a Honduran ever!!!! Honduras are not only eliminated from U-20 WCQ, but eliminated as HOSTS to NICARAGUA!!!.. Ni pueden ganar ah Los Pinoleros!! K VERGUENZA!!!! I fear for our generation after our current U-23 team.. Its not looking too bright if we can't even beat our baseballing neighbor Nicaragua. Padilla.. smh, I hope he never coaches a youth team again.
I just looked at the list of 12 CONCACAF U-20 qualifiers and was surprised Honduras didn't qualify. I see in this topic that their qualification attempt ended months ago. The distribution of 12 countries for U-20 is 4 from UNCAF and 5 from CFU and it's the other way around for the Gold Cup so it's a little harder for an UNCAF country to make the U-20.
They didn't deserve to make it if they couldn't beat Nicaragua. Terrible defending. Players were running on the field like headless chickens, no idea, nothing. Individually they're really good, Jonathan Tejada, Marvin "Ricky" Barrios, Espinal, Castellanos, Nieto, Cristofer Urmunenta, Nissi Sauceda, Walter Martinez.. they're all cold, but as a collective unit they were done.
http://www.latribunadeportiva.hn/2012/12/03/sub-17-viajo-por-la-clasificacion/ Honduras travelled to Guatemala to participate in UNCAF U-17 WCQ. First game is this Friday against neighbors El Salvador. I fully expect our ticket to the next round unlike our U-20 counter-parts
Honduran U-17 team rolls over El Salvador 5-2 in the opening game of the Central American Zone U-17 WCQ: