My guess is he (allegedly?) bought El Salvador off so that they wouldn't put up resistance in Honduras's final match. Given everything that's been revealed about the Salvadoran national team since then, it doesn't sound too farfetched.
I see you're a fan of Porto Alegre. Are you from there? I'm going there for six days and two games during the World Cup. Any tips/sites to see? Can't find many fellow Americans heading down there...
We could have easily lost that match. After the goal, we defended for our lives. Look at the highlights, El Salvador could have won that match. And Pavon's goal wasn't some 'gimme' either.
Again, look at the highlights of the match, and tell me it was fixed. That looked very far from fixed.
I didn't know where else to post this, but this is kinda fun (and slightly depressing) if you had not messed with it yet http://games.espn.go.com/world-cup-bracket-predictor/2014/en/entry
Someone needs to look at that USA vs Panama game in 2013. There is something very fishy about that result.