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2007 Gold Cup Qualification: Five teams to progress from Central America

4.2.07 - The Copa de Naciones Digicel 2007 de UNCAF (Union Centroamericana de Fútbol), which will qualify five Central American teams to the CONCACAF Gold Cup?, is scheduled to run from 8-18 February at the Cuscatlán Stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador. COMPETE SCHEDULE

The ninth edition of the UNCAF tournament will consist of two groups for the first round, with Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the host, El Salvador in Group 1.

The defending UNCAF champion and five-time winner, Costa Rica is in Group 2 along side Honduras and Panama.

This is the first time since 1995 that El Salvador is staging the Copa de Naciones Digicel de UNCAF.

The five Central American qualifiers will join Caribbean representatives Cuba, Guadeloupe, Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago and the previous Gold Cup champions (Canada, Mexico, USA) in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup? from 6-24 June in six venues across the USA.

2007 CONCACAF GOLD CUP? QUALIFICATION

Central American Zone - Copa de Naciones Digicel de UNCAF

Rosters

BELIZE

GK: Shane Orio, Carlos Slusher, Woodrow West;

DF: Andrew Allen, Ian Gaynair, Cristobal Gilharry, Trevor Lennen, Bernard Linarez, Orland Lyons, Vallan Symms, Elroy Smith;

MD: Isidro Lara, Selvin De León, Mark Leslie, Robert Muschamp, Harrison Roches, Edon Rowley, Ryan Simpson, Harison Tasher;

AT: Lennox Castillo, Deon Flowers, Victor Morales, Dian McCauley, Marlon Mesa.

TD: Antonio Carlos VIEIRA

COSTA RICA

GK: Wardy Alfaro, Dexter Lewis, Jose Francisco Porras;

DF: Try Benneth, Víctor Cordero, Jervis Drummond, Freddy Fernández, Leonardo González, Michael Umaña, Harold Wallace, Roberto Wong;

MD: Michael Barrantes, Walter Centeno, Carlos Hernández, Feliz Montoya, Rodolfo Rodríguez;

AT: Kurt Bernard, Rolando Fonseca, Andy Furtado, Alonso Solís.

TD: Hernán MEDFORD

EL SALVADOR

GK: Juan José Gómez, José Manuel González, Dagoberto Portillo;

DF: Luis Alonso Anaya, Leonidas Arístides Guevara, Alfredo Alberto Pacheco, Manuel Alejandro Salazar, William Antonio Torres, José Rolando Torres, Víctor Manuel Velásquez;

MD: Dennis Jonathan Alas, Héctor Aníbal Ávalos, Víctor Hugo Merino, Gilberto Alfredo Murgas, José Eliseo Salamanca;

AT: Alex Amílcar, Juan Alberto Díaz, Josué Naún Galdámez, José Orlando Martínez, Eliseo Quintanilla.

TD: Carlos DE LOS COBOS

GUATEMALA

GK: Luis Pedro Molina, Paulo César Motta, Ricardo Trigueño;

DF: Gustavo Cabrera, Henry Medina, Leonel Noriega, Élmer Ponciano, Yonny Wilson;

MD: Claudio Albizuriz, José Manuel Contreras, Héctor Saúl De Mata, Fredy García, Nestor Fernando Martínez, Carlos Vinicio Quiñonez, Marvin Tomás, Fredy Thompson;

AT: César Alegría, Florencio Arturo Martínez, Gregory Lester Ruiz, Edwin Roberto Villatoro.

TD: Hernán Darío GÓMEZ

HONDURAS

GK: Víctor Coello, Donis Escober;

DF: Mario Roberto Beata, Víctor Salvador Bernárdez, Oscar Boniek, Maynor Figueroa, Yermi Hernández, Emilio Izaguirre, Junior Izaguirre, Erick Cecilio Vallecillo;

MD: Mauricio Fernando Castro, Jorge Aarón Claros, Dennis Ferrera, Sergio Giovany Mendoza, Wilson Palacios;

AT: Emil Martínez, Jairo Martínez, Saúl Martínez, Carlos Mejía, Wilmer Velasquez.

TD: José DE LA PAZ

NICARAGUA

GK: Dennis Espinoza, Marcos Landro;

DF: Silvio Avilés, Milton Busto, Hoogley Corrales, Carlos Alonso Gómez, Roger Mejía, Hevel Quintanilla, Jaime Ruiz, David Solórzano;

MD: Franklin López, Eustace Martín López, Miguel Ángel Masís, Armando Reyes, Remy Vanegas, Hamilton West;

AT: David Martínez, Emilio Palacios, Wilber Sánchez, Samuel Wilson.

TD: Carlos Alberto DE TORO

PANAMA

GK: Oscar McFarlane, Jaime Penedo;

DF: José Anthony, Felipe Baloy, Ubaldo Guardia, Amílcar Henriquez, Luis Henriquez, Carlos Rivera, Joel Solanilla, Román Torres;

MD: Reggie Arosemena, Alberto Blanco, Rolando Escobar, Víctor Herrera, Engin Mitre, Juan Perez, Ricardo Phillips;

AT: Anel Canales, Luis Tejada, Gabriel Torres.

TD: Alexandre GUIMARAES

COPA DE NACIONES UNCAF ALL-TIME WINNERS

YEAR - WINNER - VENUE - GOLD CUP QUALIFIERS

1991 ? Costa Rica ? Costa Rica ? (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras)

1993 ? Honduras ? Honduras ? (Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama)

1995 ? Honduras ? El Salvador ? (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras)

1997 ? Costa Rica ? Guatemala ? (Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador)

1999 ? Costa Rica ? Costa Rica ? (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras)

2001 ? Guatemala ? Honduras ? (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala)

2003 ? Costa Rica ? Panama ? (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras*)

2005 ? Costa Rica ? Guatemala ? (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama)