From your country, what player(s) past or present have really stood out and succeeded or "made it" in the national team or abroad? Please limit your answer to no more than three players. My goal here is to create a Central American "super team". Would this all-star team have a decent (or strong!) chance against a similar team from another geographical area. Here are my three from Panama: both Dely brothers, Rommel Fernandez
Geez, judging from the lack of responses, there are very few great central american players out there. Disappointing...
i hope u guys don't mind.....i just saw that it was central america....... I remember El Magico Gonzalez whe he played in Spain......he was awesome....
Cuauhtemoc is my favorite right now...the guy has so much talent......wht sucks is that his attitude kept him from being world class
Dont worry for posting your mexican idols here, anyway nobody besides LN-rab and me posted here...jeje Question for you america and jared. Do you guys consider cuau a better idol than Hugo? In my opinion cuau is nothing compared to hugo
not really. right now mexico's best idol is rafa marquez. 2nd is oswaldo sanchez. 3rd is a toss up between cua and pardo. pardo is the most capped player on the team and cuau well... cuau is cuau
This reminds me of a question I've had for a while. On the 2002 World Cup site they listed former great players for each team, and Costa Rica's were Juan Ulloa and Javier Astua. I was wondering if anyone could tell me more about these players. All I've found on google is that Ulloa was top scorer in Costa Rica a few times in the 1960's and Astua was top scorer a few times in the early 90's. However, judging from the roster I've seen Astua wasn't on Costa Rica's 1990 world cup team. Is anyone able to provide more info about these guys? Thanks.
Javier Astua> he was an important forward in the early 90's, he played for Puntarenas and alajuela, he probably also played for 1-2 other minor teams, he won the top-scorer award a couple of times, he got several injuries in his last pro-seasons He also played for the nat'l team in some games, but he was defently not a star, who ever consider astua as a star has to consider Medford or C.Jara as Gods, thay were much better than him. I'll post some inf about Ulloa as soon a I find it, i wasnt born in the early 80's, never see him playing.
coneja Sanchez,Jerez,Ricardo clark,Pepino Toledo,Byron Perez just to name a few, I think most could have played in Europe but dint get the chance, Byron played in mexico for a while, and others tried South America.
Hello fav players from my country uhmm let´s see-... 1-. El Loco ( Mario Rodriguez) 2- El pescadito ( Carlos Ruiz ) 3. Juan Carlos Plata 4. Guillermo (Pando) Ramirez 5. Gonsalo ( CHalito )Romero 5. Gustavo Cabrera
my fav players from my country: Carlos"el pescadito"Ruiz Guillermo"el pando"Ramirez Juan Carlos Plata Mario"el loco"Rodriguez Gustavo Cabrera Mario Acevedo Pablo Melgar theres more but these are only some
Hugo Sanchez Marquez edit ** ******** just realized this is in the central america forum .... my bad , i just saw the link under concacaf on the boards overview.
not the best, but personal favorites of our current national selection: Wanchope Tuma Pupi Centeno - when he's on Pollo Brenes - should be on the national selection
Best one that i have ever seen life MEDFORD, 2WC, 1YC, played in europe and mexico "Yo calle al Azteca" -Hernan medford Journalist- "So, hernan, you are going back to Costa Rica, what team are you gonna play for?" Medford - "what team?, Saprissa obviosuly, who else?"
After Medford scored that offsides goal against Mexico in qualifying, I remember him talking bad about the Mexicans. It just seemed unfair because they treated him so well with teams that he played for like Leon. Well, may three or four all-time best from Guatemala are: Guillermo "el Pando" Ramirez- personally, the most complete player all-time. Oscar "el Conejo" Sanchez- Pure goalscorer and player "La escopeta" Recinos Byron Perez
FYI>>Medford talked more before that game than after, I dont remember that goal was offside, Medford es un grande Why no Ruiz in your list, i though he was like a hero for you guates?
Oh, sorry...yes, Medford es grande. En mi opinion, uno de los mejores de todos los tiempos de Costa Rica. Ruiz is an excellent player and maybe I should have included him but his personality on the field, in that he falls down to much, is just dumb and puts everything else second.