Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Football War - A Teaser


Tegucigalpa 1969

The earth around Central America shook with rigor. In a usual scenario, it would be an earth quake causing it; however the summer of 69 had something more intense and resonating. The 1970 world cup qualifiers had reached the final summit. Honduras had to play El Salvador in a 3 match show down to decide who would get a ticket to Mexico. But the game was hardly a game.
Countries have been torn apart, bodies have been scattered, but sport has been a nurse. It has been a soothing balm to heal the wounds caused due to war between two nations, but the world would witness unprecedented scenes. Sport wasn’t the balm, it wasn’t the salt added to the wound. It would be the wound.


The football war is a story about 2 nations whose relations were terribly strained, El Salvador and Honduras and the events surrounding the grudge matches between them which eventually led to War between the 2 countries.

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