El Salvador

The World Cup brings attention to otherwise obscure countries – El Salvador was the typical outsider, familiar from the past, but Honduras left very good impression. The obvious development of the ‘Third world’ leads to paying more attention: both El Salvador and Honduras had long football traditions, but the scale was small and local. No famous clubs, no famous players – nothing to compare with Mexico. But both countries were more football-oriented than most Central American and Caribbean nations. Still, almost nothing could be said of their national championships, save for raw statistics.

Atletico Marte (San Salvador) won the Salvadorian championship this year. The club was quite young – founded in 1950 – but already was popular and leading one.

Practically nothing can be said about the champions – certainly they had national team players and some local stars, but the real information can be summed up in this: Atletico Marte won their 7th title.