Honduras is a small country in the Caribbean region of Central America, which was colonized by Spain for 200 years before becoming independent in 1821.
The territory of Honduras is 110,000 square kilometers and the population is about 10 million. In 2022, the national GDP will be about 30 billion US dollars, the per capita is about 3,000 US dollars, and about 200 countries in the world he ranks more than 130, proper developing countries, how to look at the sense of existence is infinitely close to zero, otherwise it will not become the so-called "diplomatic relations" in Taiwan.
But in the eyes of football fans, Honduras is also a strange flower, at least Honduras in the football world is much more prominent than in the real world, because their fanaticism for football has reached the point where they can copy guys into battle.
In June 1969, the 1970 World Cup qualifiers were in full swing, with Honduras and neighboring El Salvador meeting in a two-legged match.
A narrow 1-0 victory in the first match played at home in Honduras on June 8, when there was already a fight between fans of the two countries. A week later, on the 15th, El Salvador returned to the home game to win 3-0 in the second leg, but there was more violence after the match among fans in both countries.
The World Cup organizing committee is also the head iron, seeing two consecutive fan brawls without any alert reaction, continue to die: since the two teams each win a game, let's play the play-offs.
On June 27, 1969, the play-offs were played in Mexico City, and Salvador won 3–2 after extra time.
That is, on the same day, El Salvador, who won the ball, actually "flagrantly" broke off diplomatic relations with Honduras!
The Salvadoran government said more than 10,000 Salvadorans had been forced to flee Honduras in the ten days following the match since the second leg. It also accused Honduras of "not taking any measures to prevent murder, oppression, rape, plundering and mass deportation of Salvadorans" and that maintaining relations was meaningless. After a series of verbal cannons, El Salvador summed up Honduras in four words: genocide!
This move has too much stamina, and it directly killed the sky. Since you can't talk about it, then fight. On July 14, El Salvador and Honduras officially went to war.
El Salvador took the lead in attacking, the army and air force cooperated, and 30,000 troops entered Honduras itself, and Honduras fought back, using obsolete weapons from World War II decades ago.
Honduras is a small country, but its old neighbor, El Salvador, is half the size of Honduras. It is also interesting to say that these two countries even look like their own brothers in their national flags. In any case, after three or four days of fighting, neither side could fight anymore. The League of American States intervened to mediate, blowing the final whistle, and the two sides truceded.
From the afternoon of the 14th to the 18th, this football war lasted about a hundred hours. But casualties on both sides continued to be heavy, with 900 dead in El Salvador and more than 2,000 in Honduras, mostly civilians.
Added to this is hundreds of thousands of displaced and fleeing the country.
Back in that damn World Cup, El Salvador won Honduras and played in the World Cup, but lost three consecutive games and conceded nine goals without scoring a goal, so he went home.
So, what's the picture?