Rebecca Henriquez
@RebeHenriquez
The national team will have a new friendly challenge, and this time, against the Honduran team on March 26, at the BMO stadium in Los Angeles, California, a match that will serve the blue and white team as a warm-up for the World Cup journey. which will begin in June of this year.
The international friendly between David Dóniga’s team and the H team will be another test for the Salvadoran team that will have to show character against one of its historical rivals, which has as a precedent a 0-1 victory in favor of the Hondurans in a friendly and a victory for the blue and white in the World Cup qualifiers in 2022.
La Selecta has already faced two friendly matches in 2024. We must remember the match against Inter Miami and the national team that was marked as one of the most important in the history of Salvadoran football, a match where both teams did not go beyond a goalless draw. in the Cuscatlán stadium, on January 19 and the last one was against Costa Rica, in the National stadium of the same country, where the team fell 2 to 0.
The last precedent of the story between the blue and white and the H team was the 0-1 in favor of the rivals, at the Banc of California Stadium on March 22, 2023, and the World Cup qualifying match. World on January 30, a match that ended in favor of El Salvador with goals from Nelson Bonilla and Darwin Cerén.
The national team learned a few days ago the path it will face in the second phase of the qualifiers towards the 2026 World Cup, and in which it will face Puerto Rico on Thursday, June 6 of this year, at home, and on the 9th. of the same month against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a visitor.
That phase will end with the match on June 7, 2025 as a visitor against the winner of qualifying 1, and on Tuesday, June 10 of the same year they will face Suriname at home.
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