This thread will be for youth side competitions both men and women. I feel it would be easier condensing instead of having multiple threads, I will be doing the same with the senior thread. For the men a new coach has been announced. CONFIRMADO. El español Juan Cortés 🇪🇸 será el entrenador de la Selección Sub 20 de El Salvador. También tomará la Sub 15. No será el auxiliar de David Dóniga aunque eventualmente pueda colaborar con la Selecta mayor. pic.twitter.com/nXdCgNFGS9— Claudio Martínez (@martinezchino) January 5, 2024 @edcalvi @La Trucha please sticky this thread por favor.
We have our rivals for the U-20 UNCAF competition which will be prep for the qualifiers. Those rivals are Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua, the competition kicks off on January 19th. Meanwhile we are beginning to lose ground on potential players to recruit for the youth sides. Oficialmente se pierden dos prospectos para nuestra sub 20Gracias FESFUT, COMITE REGULARIZADOR Y LOS DTS MARGINADORES.😔 pic.twitter.com/uPAlwU4xIx— Fútbol Nacional 503 (@Asfutbol503) January 6, 2024
Final list for the competition. When your car’s crashing down and you’re trapped inside … https://t.co/tsbycQPw3O— Hurricane Helms (@ShaneHelmsCom) January 15, 2024
Lmao my apologies for posting the incorrect tweet. Well they didn’t win a game, the best result was a draw against Cuba and win in penalties. Results went as follows. Panama 3-0 El Salvador Honduras 4-2 El Salvador El Salvador 0-5 Nicaragua Cuba 2-2 El Salvador (3-4 PKs) The Nicaragua result on top of being embarrassing was a double whammy. Francis Castillo who also could have represented us and wanted to was tossed aside by Kiko so he went where they wanted him. He provided three assist and scored a goal in that thumping. The dinosaur thinking of our local coaches will be why we don’t advance.
The U17 girls CONCACAF tournament is underway, they are situated in group A. opponents are as follows Mexico Costa Rica Haiti They began against Mexico and lost 3-0, meanwhile Haiti defeated Costa Rica 2-1. Tomorrow they face off against Haiti and they need points to keep the dream of advancing alive. Here’s the rest of the schedule 2/3 El Salvador vs. Haiti 2/5 Costa Rica vs. El Salvador
The girls struggled and did not win one game. The last game they actually had the lead but coughed it up. El Salvador 3-5 Haiti Costa Rica 2-2 El Salvador Next up is the men U20 hopefully they fair better.
This is the squad chosen for the CONCACAF U20 tournament. Tournament is already under way. https://x.com/laselecta_slv/status/1759684444347146621?s=46&t=r414Qy4PbIcRqbUxJuE6mA The schedule is as follows ¡CALENDARIO OFICIAL! ✅🤩Así queda conformado el calendario de juegos para nuestra Selección Sub 20 en las Eliminatorias de la CONCACAF.#CulebritaMacheteada🐍 #LaSelectaSub20 pic.twitter.com/puYkvUSqvH— Culebrita Macheteada (@CulebritaM) February 23, 2024
They began the tournament with a 7-0 beatdown of Turks & Caicos. They followed that up with a 2-2 draw against Guyana they had the lead but gave up a PK in the 82nd. The had the lead despite being down a man since the 48th minute. Only the first place teams advances so they have to win out to make it.
Do or die for these last two games, specifically today vs Suriname as they seem to be the biggest fish in the pond tbh, drubbing Guyana 4-1 and beating ATG 3-2. Play in 15 min. picture is the starting 11 for us today.
ES won 3-0, another red card in this game as well in the 70’. (Red for both players, one for each team). Not sure if it’s a discipline issue or a concentration issue, but two in two games is kind of rough. Last game is on Saturday vs Second place Antigua & Barbuda. It’s another must win game, as while we’re ahead by 1 pt, Suriname play the weakest team in the group in Turks & Caicos. If Suriname win (which they surely will) they’ll have 9 points. Need the win to end with 10, if we tie we end with 8 and do not continue to the last round. Suriname vs T&C at 6:30 am, ES vs ATG at 1100. Saturday. Edit: goalscorers for this game for ES were: Christopher Argueta, Nestor Delgado, and Kiano Casamalhuapa. Red card was for Nestor Delgado. We get Daniel España back from his red card vs Guayana.
While Suriname got the (expected) win 7-2, El Salvador did what they had to do and won 1-0 off a dead ball (corner I believe). The next notes I am paraphrasing from Universo ES from youtube: ES has suffered this tournament, every game has essentially been close minus the first one vs Turks & Caicos. The GK is a big point, apparently being extremely unreliable. This pushes us to the defense, where we lacked leadership and someone with a good head, and caused problems in many situations (Guyana goals, and Antigua having many break away where ES would be up men 4-2, and we would foul them and give opportunities). Once we lose some attacking options, specifically Nestor Delgado, we apparently struggled. But did what we had to do and on to the final round, where hopefully we can get more reinforcements and have many friendlies to help them prepare correctly. If anyone is interested (@edcalvi certainly is) Guatemala and Nicaragua both play for their shot onto the next round vs Curacao and Cuba respectively, 5 pm PST. Nicaragua and Cuba are tied at 9 pts, Nica having a +4 GD so a tie gets them through. Guatemala has 9 pts to Curacao's 7, so a tie gets them through as well.
Not our update, but still: Nicaragua lost to Cuba 2-0, Guatemala beat curacao 1-0. The teams that had bye's were: USA, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Dominican Republic. The teams that join them for the final round are: Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, Haiti, and Jamaica. total of 12 teams, probably do three groups of four, top two pass with two third place teams and final four to World Cup.
So the youngsters had a camp and quite a couple of abroad names hopefully the trajectory for them keeps on upward because we’ve seen this story that they can’t break through in their perspective clubs. 📝| #LaSelectaSub20 Jugadores convocados para campamento que se realizará del 21 al 28 de abril del 2024#ElSalvador pic.twitter.com/X9SHtdLkHc— La Selecta (@LaSelecta_SLV) April 11, 2024 We also learned our opponents for the U20 Qualifiers. 🇸🇻| 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝟐𝟎Ya conocemos a nuestros rivales en el premundial que se realizará en México del 19 de julio al 4 de agosto🇭🇳🇩🇴🇸🇻🇨🇦 #ElSalvador #LaSelectaSub20 #Premundial #Concacaf pic.twitter.com/NAQw1rqfHi— La Selecta (@LaSelecta_SLV) April 11, 2024