Guatemala national football team
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Guatemala national football team

National Football Team
NameGuatemala
NicknameLa Azul y Blanco
Los Chapines
La Bicolor"
AssociationFederación Nacional de Fútbol
ConfederationCONCACAF (North America)
Head coachÉver Hugo Almeida
CaptainGuillermo Ramírez
Most capsVictor Hugo Monzon (103) 
Top scorerCarlos Ruíz (41)
Home stadiumEstadio Nacional Mateo Flores
FIFA codeGUA
FIFA ranking114
Highest FIFA ranking50 (August 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking163 (November 1995)
Elo ranking74
World Cup Statistics
First internationalGuatemala Guatemala 10 - 1 Honduras
(Guatemala City, Guatemala; Sept. 14 , 1921)
Biggest winGuatemala Guatemala 10 - 1 Honduras
(Guatemala City, Guatemala; Sept. 14 , 1921)
Biggest defeatCosta Rica 9 - 1 Guatemala Guatemala
(San José, Costa Rica; July 24, 1955)
Regional cup statistics
CONCACAF Championship
& Gold Cup
Appearances14
First apps.1965
Best resultWinners, 1967

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The Guatemala national football team is the association football team representing the country of Guatemala and is controlled by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala. Founded in 1919, it affiliated to FIFA in 1946, and it is a member of CONCACAF.

The team has made three Olympic tournament appearances, competing at the 1968, 1976, and 1988 Olympic Games. It has never qualified for a finals tournament of the World Cup.

Guatemala has won the 3rd CONCACAF Championship in 1967 and the UNCAF Nations Cup in 2001. The team's best performance in a CONCACAF Gold Cup was at the 1996 edition, where it finished fourth. Guatemala obtained the silver medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela.

The country has not organized any major international football competitions, but it did organize the 2000 FIFA Futsal World Championship.

Guatemala is a country that participates in World Cup Qualifiers for the area of CONCACAF but they have fail to reach a World Cup of any category. But they have reached the final round 4 times.

The team was nicknamed "los azules y blancos (the blue and white). After a few years more teams were founded and the national team began to play in 1921, they played their first game against Honduras winning 10-1. Guatemala started playing in World Cup Qualifiers for the frist time in 1958.

Guatemala did not play very well in their first few years, but they started to show some progress as the years went on, although they cannot be compared to countries like USA or Mexico.

In 1967, they showed some major progress by classifying to the Olympic Games of Mexico City 1968. While in the Olympic games they won 1:0 to Czechoslovakia, also winning 4:1 to Thailand, and losing to Bulgaria 2:1. They went on the next round where they lost to future champion Hungary 1:0. By the end of the Olympics they were the 6th best team in the world.

After that performance they began to have more important victories added to their resume. They have been the Copa UNCAF champions once, the other times they finished second or third, which meant they sealed their ticket to the Gold Cup. In 1993 the team did not participate in the UNCAF tournament.

In the World Cup Qualifiers to Germany 2006, they went all the way to the last round, where they beat Surinam 4:2 in the second round, and then finished in second place behind Costa Rica in group B, while the other two teams were Honduras and Canada. In the third round they had wins against Canada, Costa Rica and then tied against Honduras and then lost to Costa Rica and then won 1:0 to Honduras, which was when they sealed their pass to the last round and last lost to Canada.

In the last round, they finished in 5th place, they needed a Mexico win or tie against Trinidad and Tobago to advance to the FIFA World Cup.

They tried to classify to South Africa 2010, but due to bad results both at home and away, they failed to reach a World Cup again.

One of the most talented players in Guatemala history is Carlos Ruiz, who plays for Puebla in Mexico.

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: CONCACAF Championships record
Year Round GP W D L GS GA
El Salvador 1963 Round 1 4 1 2 1 7 6
Guatemala 1965 Runner-up 5 3 1 1 11 5
Honduras 1967 Champions 5 4 1 0 7 1
Costa Rica 1969 Runner-up 5 3 2 0 10 2
Trinidad and Tobago 1971 Did not qualify
Haiti 1973 Fifth Place 5 0 3 2 4 6
Mexico 1977 Fifth Place 5 1 1 3 8 10
Honduras 1981 Did not qualify
1985 Round 1 4 2 1 1 7 3
1989 Fourth Place 6 1 1 4 4 7
United States 1991 Round 1 3 1 0 2 1 5
United StatesMexico 1993 Did not enter
United States 1996 Fourth Place 4 1 0 3 3 5
United States 1998 Round 1 3 0 2 1 3 4
United States 2000 Round 1 2 0 1 1 3 5
United States 2002 Round 1 2 0 0 2 1 4
Mexico 2003 Round 1 2 0 1 1 1 3
United States 2005 Round 1 3 0 1 2 4 9
United States 2007 Quarter Finals 4 1 1 2 2 5
United States 2009 Did not qualify
Total 1 Title 62 18 18 26 76 80

: UNCAF Nations Cup record
Year Round GP W D L GS GA
Costa Rica 1991 Third Place 3 0 2 1 0 1
Honduras 1993 Did not enter
El Salvador 1995 Runner-up 4 2 0 2 2 5
Guatemala 1997 Runner-up 5 3 2 0 10 3
Costa Rica 1999 Runner-up 5 3 1 1 5 2
Honduras 2001 Champions 5 2 3 0 9 5
Panama 2003 Runner-up 5 3 1 1 10 4
Guatemala 2005 Third Place 5 3 1 1 10 5
El Salvador 2007 Third Place 5 3 1 1 3 2
Honduras 2009 Round 1 3 0 0 3 1 6
Total 1 Title 40 19 11 10 50 33

Current squadCaps by May 28th, 2010.      >Recent Call Ups      >Player history   * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

Most capped players

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Last 3 Games and upcoming fixtures :
Category Home Team Result Away Team Date Venue Scorers
Friendly Mexico 0 � 0 GT Guatemala June 28, 2009 Qualcomm Stadium
Friendly GuatemalaGuatemala 2-1 El Salvador March 3, 2010 Los Angeles
Friendly South Africa 5-0 Guatemala May 31, 2010 Johannesburg, South Africa

Most capped players :
# Name Career Caps
1 Victor Hugo Monzón 1979-1992 103
2 Guillermo Ramírez* 1997-present 91
3 Juan Carlos Plata 1996-2006 86
4 Carlos Ruiz* 1998-present 83
5 Allan Wellman ?-1989 82
Julio Girón 1992-2006 82
6 Edgar Estrada 1995-2003 80
Gustavo Cabrera* 2001-present 80
8 Fredy Thompson* 2001-present 78
9 Julio Gómez 74
10 Gonzalo Romero* 2000-present 73
11 Erick Miranda 1991-2001 69
Fredy García* 2000-present 69
13 Juan Manuel Funes 1985-2000 66

Top goalscorers :
# Name Career Goals
1 Carlos Ruiz* 1998-present 41
2 Juan Carlos Plata 1996-2006 35
3 Carlos Toledo 25
4 Mario Camposeco 1943-1951 23
5 Fredy García* 2000-present 20
6 Óscar Sánchez 19
7 Edwin Westphal 1985-1998 16
8 Juan Manuel Funes 1985-2000 16
9 Hugo Peña 1960-1969 13
10 Byron Pérez ?-1992 11
Dwight Pezzarossi* 2000-present 11
Guillermo Ramírez* 1997-present 11

Top goalscorers :
Name Period Matches Wins Draws Losses Winning % Honours
AR Alfredo Cuevas 1955 - 1957
AR José Alberto Cevasco 1960 - 1961
IT AR Afro Geronazzo 1961
AR César Viccino 1965
UY Rubén Amorín 1967 Winner of the 1967 NORCECA Championship
AR César Viccino 1968 - 1969
ES Lorenzo Ausina Tur 1969
AR Carmelo Faraone 1971
IT AR Afro Geronazzo 1971 - 1972
UY Rubén Amorín 1972
CL Néstor Valdez Moraga 1972
UY Rubén Amorín 1976
AR Carlos Cavagnaro 1976
GT Carlos Wellman 1976
GT José Ernesto Romero 1979
UY Rubén Amorín 1980
AR Carlos Cavagnaro 1983
YUG Dragoslav Šekularac 1984 - 1985
UY Julio César Cortés 1987
GT Jorge Roldán 1988
UY Rubén Amorín 1989 - 1990
GT Haroldo Cordón 1991
AR Miguel Angel Brindisi 1992
GT Jorge Roldán 1995 Runner up of the 1995 UNCAF Nations Cup
AR Juan Ramón Verón 1996 11 6 1 4 54.6%
AR Horacio Cordero 1996 9 5 0 4 55.6%
AR Miguel Angel Brindisi 1997 - 1998 23 9 11 3 39.1% Runner up of the 1997 UNCAF Nations Cup
AR Carlos Bilardo
AR Eduardo Luján Manera
1998 8 2 3 3 25.0%
GT Benjamín Monterroso 1999 11 4 2 5 36.4% Runner up of the 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup
UY Carlos Miloc 2000 5 0 3 2 0.0%
UY Julio César Cortés 2000 - 2003 Winner of the 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup
Runner up of the 2003 UNCAF Nations Cup
MX Víctor Manuel Aguado 2003
HN Ramón Maradiaga 2004 - 2005 42 17 9 16 40.5%
CO Hernán Darío Gómez 2006 - 2008 21 5 4 12 23.8%
HN Ramón Maradiaga 2008 5 2 1 2 50.0%
GT Benjamín Monterroso 2008 - 2009 5 1 0 4 20.0%


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No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club

International association football

AsiaAFCAsian Cup
AfricaCAFAfrica Cup of Nations
North, Central America and CaribbeanCONCACAFGold Cup
South AmericaCONMEBOL � Copa América
OceaniaOFCNations Cup
EuropeUEFAEuropean Championship
Non-FIFAN.F.-BoardViva World Cup

National association football teams of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana* , Grenada, Guadeloupe*, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique* , Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Martin*, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten* , Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States

CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup winners

8 titles
Mexico (1965, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003 , 2009)
4 titles
United States (1991, 2002, 2005, 2007)
3 titles
Costa Rica (1963, 1969, 1989)
2 titles
Canada (1985, 2000)
1 title



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