Monday 13 August 2007

First Impressions:- season starts

Welcome to my new blog, and my attempts to infiltrate one of the lesser Latin American leagues, El Salvador: I have now been in the country three days, and the season started this weekend, and sadly I failed to get to the game.

There are 10 teams in the top flight league here, two in the capital of San Salvador, where there are two big stadiums: Many of the other eight teams, spread around the country (about 300 kms by less than 100), have grounds which seem to be little more than fields. In the capital the stadiums are “Cuscatlan” which holds 39,000 and the 25,000 capacity Jorge “Magico” Gonzalez. As far as I can see FC Alianza and San Salvador FC both play at both these grounds.

I feel it is highly likely I will be following San Salvador – I should be at their game next week, and the other capital team, Alianza, seem to be the “big boys” whom I can rarely bring myself to follow.

Over the next few weeks I will post reports of matches I attend, and also some history and quirks of football in this country, which has the highest population density in the Americas. I will also endeavour to understand about each team, and the towns from where they hail.

I will also continue to comment on football around the world, especially relating to CONCACAF and their leader, Jack Warner “TSMCMiFIFA”.

The team that would be natural for me to follow would be “Once Municipal” from Ahuachapán, about 100 kms to the west: This travelling time will stop me from being a fan of the “Canaries”, who share with City the distinction of having a canary and a football on their badge. See the picture of their badge above and also their remarkable looking Estadio Simeón Magaña. Looks already like a great away trip!

For the record, here are the results of the first weekend’s matches:-

Vista Hermosa 2 Nejapa 1

Metapan 1 Once Municipal 0

Chalatenango 1 Agulia 0

FAS 1 San Salvador 1

Alianza 2 Firpo 1

One of the problems I have already encountered is that it seems while the dates of matches are published before the season, the kick off times do not seem available until match day! I am sure I will find out in time soon.

So join me, on a new footballing adventure for me, but a well trodden path for us Brits: - starting with the first footy game ever played here, between teams made up largely of British citizens, where Santa Ana beat San Salvador 2-0 on the 26th July 1899, in Santa Ana.

Cheers

DT

16 comments:

Richard said...

Interesting stuff Dave. Looking forward to hearing more and perhaps even making it to a game one of these days.

John Kelly said...

Super work Dave. I shall be keeping bang up to date with this blog.

BlackComyn said...

I am really looking forward to learning all about football in El Salvador and its environs.

I reckon an away trip to the Vista Hermosa game sounds nice for some reason.

DT said...

I worry about Vista Hermosa, if the vista really is that hermosa I may not be able to concentrate on the game....

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