One of this week's most fascinating WC qualifiers is the Honduras/El Salvador clash on Thursday.
It's almost 40 years to the month (July 1969) since tensions between the two countries, exacberated by El Salvador's defeat of Honduras in the 1970 WC qualifiers, erupted into a four day war that claimed around 2,000 lives and displaced many times that number. Here's the link to the Wikipedia article on the conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War
There might be a few more newspaper articles that highlight this anniversary in a day or two, but for now the only one I could find was this one from the South African Times:
www.thetimes.co.za/Sport/Article.aspx?id=1015011
Aside from the anniversary of the 'Soccer War', the article highlights an intriguing moral dilemma: should South Korea assist North Korea in their efforts to qualify for the WC?
Ok, so we're always told that sport and politics shouldn't mix. But where's the fun in that?
It's almost 40 years to the month (July 1969) since tensions between the two countries, exacberated by El Salvador's defeat of Honduras in the 1970 WC qualifiers, erupted into a four day war that claimed around 2,000 lives and displaced many times that number. Here's the link to the Wikipedia article on the conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War
There might be a few more newspaper articles that highlight this anniversary in a day or two, but for now the only one I could find was this one from the South African Times:
www.thetimes.co.za/Sport/Article.aspx?id=1015011
Aside from the anniversary of the 'Soccer War', the article highlights an intriguing moral dilemma: should South Korea assist North Korea in their efforts to qualify for the WC?
Ok, so we're always told that sport and politics shouldn't mix. But where's the fun in that?
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