La selección absoluta de España conservó el primer lugar en el ranking mundial divulgado hoy por la Federación Internacional de Fútbol.
Los ibéricos, vigentes monarcas del orbe y de Europa, continúan al frente de la clasificación con 1564 puntos, casi 200 por delante de su escolta Holanda, subcampeón en la Copa del Mundo Suráfrica-2010.

Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, foi realizado no dia 07/09/2011, na cidade de Managua-NIC, onde jogaram as seleções da Nicaragua (176º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Panamá (62º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
2002Panama City 21/05/2000 PAN4:0 (0:0)NCA Central American Round2002Diriamba 19/03/2000 NCA0:2 (0:1)PAN Central American Round
Copa Ouro
2009Phoenix 12/07/2009 PAN4:0 (1:0)NCA First stage1963San Salvador 29/03/1963 PAN5:0NCA First stage
Eliminatórias Continentais
2011Panama City 16/01/2011 PAN2:0 (1:0)NCA First stage2003Panama City 21/02/2003 PAN0:1 (0:0)NCA 2001Tegucigalpa 27/05/2001 PAN6:0 (3:0)NCA First round1995Diriamba 29/10/1995 NCA0:5 (0:1)PAN Preliminary round1995Panama City 22/10/1995 PAN2:0 (0:0)NCA Preliminary round1967Guatemala City 17/02/1967 PAN1:3NCA
Amistosos
1970Panama City 02/03/1970 PAN4:3NCA First stage1953San Jose (Crc) 14/03/1953 PAN0:2NCA 1951Panama City 04/03/1951 PAN6:2NCA 1951Panama City 28/02/1951 PAN4:0NCA 1946San Jose (Crc) 10/03/1946 PAN0:2NCA 1941San Jose (Crc) 18/05/1941 PAN5:2 (2:1)NCA
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Oscar Reyna-GUA
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Luis Tejada, aos 7 minutos do primeiro tempo.

Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, foi realizado no dia 02/09/2011, na cidade de Roseau-DMA, onde jogaram as seleções de Dominica (136º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Nicaragua (176º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções nunca haviam jogado.

Oro Plata Bronce Total 1 [USA] Estados Unidos 16 16 11 43 2 [BRA] Brasil 9 5 7 21 3 [MEX] México 6 5 8 19 4 [COL] Colombia 5 3 3 11 5 [ARG] Argentina 4 2 2 8 6 [CAN] Canadá 3 5 10 18 7 [DOM] República Dominicana 3 0 1 4 8 [VEN] Venezuela 2 4 4 10 9 [CUB] Cuba 1 4 5 10 10 [CHI] Chile 0 1 6 7 11 [GUA] Guatemala 0 1 1 2 12 [ESA] El Salvador 0 1 0 1 13 [PER] Perú 0 1 0 1 14 [TRI] Trinidad y Tobago 0 1 0 1 15 [GUY] Guyana 0 0 1 1 16 [CAY] Islas Caimán 0 0 1 1 17 [PAR] Paraguay 0 0 1 1 18 [ANT] Antigua y Barbuda 0 0 0 0 19 [AHO] Antillas Holandesas 0 0 0 0 20 [ARU] Aruba 0 0 0 0 21 [BAH] Bahamas 0 0 0 0 22 [BAR] Barbados 0 0 0 0 23 [BIZ] Belize 0 0 0 0 24 [BER] Bermudas 0 0 0 0 25 [BOL] Bolivia 0 0 0 0 26 [CRC] Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 27 [DMA] Dominica 0 0 0 0 28 [ECU] Ecuador 0 0 0 0 29 [GRN] Granada 0 0 0 0 30 [HAI] Haití 0 0 0 0 31 [HON] Honduras 0 0 0 0 32 [ISV] Islas Vírgenes 0 0 0 0 33 [IVB] Islas Vírgenes Britanicas 0 0 0 0 34 [JAM] Jamaica 0 0 0 0 35 [NCA] Nicaragua 0 0 0 0 36 [PAN] Panamá 0 0 0 0 37 [PUR] Puerto Rico 0 0 0 0 38 [SKN] San Cristóbal e Nevis 0 0 0 0 39 [VIN] San Vicente y Granadinas 0 0 0 0 40 [LCA] Santa Lucía 0 0 0 0 41 [SUR] Surinam 0 0 0 0 42 [URU] Uruguay 0 0 0 0 Actualizado 18 Octubre.

USA - Ecuador is on ESPN 2 and Univision at 7pm. Euro 2012 qualifying on ESPN2: Germany - Belgium at 1pm. On ESPN Deportes: Spain - Scotland at 3pm, France - Bosnia at 5pm, and Denmark - Portugal at 7pm. Mexico plays Brazil on ESPN2 at 9:30pm. GolTV has Panama - Nicaragua at 8pm. All Times Eastern

Honduras booked a spot at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying finals with a 5-0 win against Nicaragua earlier this week. The 5-0 win gave Honduras the edge on goal differential against Costa Rica.
With the win, Honduras joins El Salvador, Canada, Mexico and the United States in next year's qualifying tournament.

Six countries are set for the final round of CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying, set to be held from Jan. 19-29 at BC Place in Vancouver, Canada.
The USA, Canada and Mexico get byes to the final tournament while Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba qualified through the Caribbean region.

Joined in progress, it's the second matchday of the second round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. Here we go: [Group B] Barbados 0-2 Trinidad & Tobago F [Group A] Dominican Republic 1-1 Suriname F [Group F] US Virgin Islands 1-8 Antigua & Barbuda F [Group E] Belize 1-2 Guatemala F [Group D] St. Lucia 2-4 St.

Today CONCACAF World Cup qualifying starts for 19 more national associations in the confederation, with matches going on from Toronto to Georgetown. (Or is Paramaribo further south?) This post will be updated throughout the day with results and events as they come in, but I'll be working so it will be more of a semi-live blog.

With the group stage kicking off tonight, it seemed like a good time to total things up by country. The surprises so far:
MLS Goes Five-for-Five: All four US teams made it through to the group stage. Additionally Toronto FC made it to the group stage and propelled Canada to the top of the list thus far.

In this post game video blog I celebrate Toronto FC's away victory Tuesday night in Nicaragua that secured passage into the group stages of the CONCACAF Champions League.
Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Toronto FC advanced to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League with a 2-1 win on Tuesday night (4-2 on aggregate) at the Independencia in Nicaragua. Ryan Johnson was the hero for Toronto, scoring on either side of an Esteli penalty. Johnson's opener came in the 37th minute when he took a chance on a long shot that paid off.

Toronto FC has made headlines for its troubling season and numerous player moves, but the club can earn some acclaim by booking a place in the CONCACAF Champions League group stage with a favorable result in Nicaragua against Real Esteli FC in the second leg of their preliminary round tie (10 p.

Why I strongly feel that in spite of hardships and adversity facing them, Toronto FC will qualify for the group stages of the CONCACAF Champions League and will emerge as a stronger club from the experience in Nicaragua.
Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

FIFA conducted the World Cup qualification draw in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
Under the CONCACAF Qualifying system, there will now be a 2nd Round group stage that the United States will not be involved in. The USA enters in Round 3, where they will face fellow seeded team Jamaica along with the winners of Round 2's Groups E and F.

Below are the results by country for the first three full years of the Champions League. Once the 2011-12 tourney is done, I'll update this post.
As you can see, not every country competes in the tournament every year. The 2011-12 tournament will see two new countries added to the list: Guyana and Haiti.

Toronto FC won their third consecutive Canadian title on Saturday

Toronto FC secured their third consecutive Nutrilite Canadian Championship title on Saturday. With the first leg tied at 1-1, the champions had to come from behind in their second leg 2-1 victory over Vancouver Whitecaps in order to win the Voyageur's Cup yet again.

First of all, I was one of those hundreds of people who had to line up and wait to hand in tickets to exchange for new tickets because my printed tickets were destroyed on that stormy night in May. Perhaps I was foolish to think that if I arrived with my original tickets that all would be ok. I missed 40 minutes of the first half because I had to stand in line and prove to TFC/BMO gate staff that I was legit.

CONCACAF conducted their draw for the Preliminary Round and Group Stage of next season's CONCACAF Champions League. The Preliminary Round pairings are below the fold: PR1: Motagua (Honduras) v Municipal (Guatemala) PR2: Mexican Clausura Finalist v Caribbean 2 PR3: Isidro Metapán (El Salvador) v Caribbean 1 PR4: Santos Laguna (Mexico) v Olimpia (Honduras) PR5: Alianza (El Salvador) v FC Dallas (USA) PR6: Canada champion v Nicaragua champion PR7: San Francisco (Panama) v Seattle Sounders (USA) PR8: Herediano (Costa Rica) v Caribbean 3 Some interesting matchups, and a chance for the Caribbean to place as many as two teams in the.

Major League Soccer's two Canadian teams, the Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC, go head-to-head in the first leg of the Canadian championship at Empire Field in their first meeting since the opening game of the MLS season (10 p.m., Rogers Sportsnet in Canada; Sportsnet stream).

A decisão do 5º colocado na Uncaf 2011, foi realizado no dia 21/01/2011, na cidade do Panamá-PAN, no Estadio Rommel Fernández, onde jogaram as seleções da Nicarágua (157º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Guatemala (117º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
1998Guatemala City 10/05/1996 GUA2:1 (0:0)NCA Central American zone1998Diriamba 05/05/1996 NCA0:1 (0:1)GUA Central American zone
Copa Ouro
1967Tegucigalpa 19/03/1967 GUA2:0NCA 1963San Salvador 27/03/1963 GUA3:1NCA First stage
Eliminatórias Continentais
Tegucigalpa 29/01/2009 NCA2:0 (1:0)GUA Second stage2007San Salvador 08/02/2007 GUA1:0 (1:0)NCA First stage2005Guatemala City 21/02/2005 GUA4:0 (2:0)NCA 2003Panama City 18/02/2003 GUA5:0 (2:0)NCA 1999San Jose (Crc) 17/03/1999 GUA1:0NCA Group matches1997Guatemala City 20/04/1997 GUA6:1 (3:1)NCA Group matches1967Guatemala City 15/02/1967 GUA3:1NCA
Amistosos
Fort Lauderdale 04/09/2010 GUA5:0 (3:0)NCA 1992Unknown 07/06/1992 GUA7:1NCA 1953San Jose (Crc) 19/03/1953 GUA1:0NCA 1946San Jose (Crc) 07/03/1946 GUA7:0NCA 1943San Salvador 19/12/1943 GUA5:1NCA 1943San Salvador 09/12/1943 GUA6:2NCA
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Roberto Garcia Orozco-MEX
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Felix Rodriguez, aos 22 minutos do primeiro tempo, ele que é jogador da Nicaragua.

From Nicaragua comes the welcome news that stadium improvements at Real Estelí's Estadio Independencia have been completed. (The article was in Pinolero Sports, but it appears to be a verbatim copy of a Real Estelí press release.) The most important improvement has been the upgrades to the stadium lighting, which now have a brightness of 1200 lux which is in line with CONCACAF regulations.

From Nicaragua comes the welcome news that stadium improvements at Real Estelí's Estadio Independencia have been completed. (The article was in Pinolero Sports, but it appears to be a verbatim copy of a Real Estelí press release.) The most important improvement has been the upgrades to the stadium lighting, which now have a brightness of 1200 lux which is in line with CONCACAF regulations.

Today, in the Copa Centroamericana (one of approximately 80 international tournaments currently in progress around the world), the 5th place match was won by Guatemala over Nicaragua. Why, you may ask, should those outside of one of those two countries pay any mind at all to that fact? The answer is that 5th place in that particular Copa came with a bonus the final invite to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Guatemala avenged its shocking loss to Nicaragua two years ago with a 2-1victory to advance to the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Nicaragua took the lead midway through the first half, but Guatemala coach Ever Almeida made a change by bringing on Gregory Ruíz a couple of minutes after the Nicaraguan goal. It proved to be inspired as Ruíz scored the equalizer less then five minutes later, and then another round of substitutions in the second half led to the winner, scored by Manuel León halfway through the second half.

GolTV has the Copa Centroamericana: Nicaragua - Guatemala at 4pm, Honduras - El Salvador at 6:30pm, and Panama - Costa Rica at 9pm. The Nicaragua - Guatemala 5th-place game is the one to watch, since it will determine the final Gold Cup qualifier. All of the other remaining teams have qualified. All Times Eastern

The group stage in the Copa Centroamericana has concluded with the top six countries now doing battle either for the title or for the chance to gain a place in the CONCACAF Gold Cup which takes place later this year.

Tournament hosts and defending champions Panama ended the group stage with a 100% record following three wins against opponents El Salvador, Nicaragua and Belize.

Honduras clinched their spot in this summer's CONCACAF Gold Cup by defeating Guatemala 3-1. Motagua's Jorge Claros scored the winner in the closing stages of the first half, and the insurance goal in the final minute of the match. Guatemala will face Nicaragua, who drew 1-1 with Belize to clinch third place in Group A on goal difference.

Victory and poverty are relative. For most of America, Nicaragua is looked down upon as the ugly stepchild. The Ticos complain about Nicas despite giving them visas by the thousands, and everyone else forgets that a certain Mr. Dario, the father of literary postmodernism in Spanish literature, came from this cuna.

There are entirely too many international tournaments going on at once right now. Between the club seasons and all of these tournaments, fans have an embarrassment of riches at the moment. We have the Asian Cup, the South American U-20s, and in Central America, the old UNCAF Nations Cup (now called the Copa Centroamericana) is also in full swing.

FA Cup Third Round replay on Fox Soccer Channel: Manchester City - Leicester City at 2:30pm. Coppa Italia on GolTV: Napoli - Bologna at 3pm. ESPN Deportes has Jozy Altidore's Villarreal hosting Sevilla in the Copa del Rey at 4pm. Copa Centroamericana on GolTV: Nicaragua - Belize at 5pm, Honduras - Guatemala at 7pm, and Panama - El Salvador at 9pm.

By FRANCO PANIZO

The 2011 Gold Cup is five months away, and all but two nations set to participate are known as three more qualified on Sunday.

Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama reached the Gold Cup with wins that assured them of playing in the semifinals of the Copa Centroamericana, the seven-team tournament that names a Central American champion and decides which five nations from the region reach CONCACAF's biggest stage.

El Salvador, Panama, and Costa Rica have confirmed their places at this summer's Gold Cup. El Salvador and Panama won comfortable victories against the minnows of Central America -- the Salvadorans beat Belize 5-2 in the opening match, and Panama defeated Nicaragua 2-0. The local papers criticized Panama for not converting their superiority into more goals, which was the same problem that they had against Belize.

Cuando corría el minuto 69 y el gol no llegaba, los usuarios de redes sociales empezaron a impacientarse con la Selecta. Pensaban que no podría ganarle a Nicaragua y se lamentaban. Descubrieron un clon de Rudis Corrales entre los nicas, el número 11, y también otro en la Selecta, Rafa Burgos, a quien hostigaron duro [.

La Selección de Honduras conquistó por tercera vez la Copa Centroamericana, el torneo de selecciones antes conocido como Copa de Naciones de UNCAF, organizado por la Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol y cuya edición 2011 se disputó íntegramente en la ciudad de Panamá.
Todos los partidos se llevaron a cabo en el remodelado Estadio Rommel Fernández.

La Selecta es mejor que Nicaragua, pero no puede demostrarlo en el marcador. Van 0-0 al finalziar el primer tiempo.

Very distressing news from Nicaragua as the national federation there has banned Armando Collado from all soccer-related activities indefinitely due to allegations of match-fixing. The 25-year-old defender, who spent some time with Real Estelí and currently plays for Alianza in El Salvador, has been charged with helping to throw matches by ensuring that an exact score was achieved.

Very distressing news from Nicaragua as the national federation there has banned Armando Collado from all soccer-related activities indefinitely due to allegations of match-fixing. The 25-year-old defender, who spent some time with Real Estelí and currently plays for Alianza in El Salvador, has been charged with helping to throw matches by ensuring that an exact score was achieved.

The 2011 Copa Centroamericana starts tomorrow in Panama, as the seven teams of UNCAF battle for the five Central American berths to the CONCACAF Gold Cup this summer. Two groups -- one four teams (Panama, El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua) and the other three (Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica) -- staging three tripleheaders over four days in one stadium.

Eso es lo que espera todo el país. La Selecta debuta en la Copa Centroamericana contra Nicaragua. Con ganar tendría casi asegurado el boleto a la Copa de Oro. En la edición 2009, El Salvador apenas empató 1-1 con los nicaraguenses. Ahora se espera mucho más y aunque ellos vienen de hacer varios fogueos en [.