The Football War

The Football War

El Salvador and Honduras are 2 countries in America near Mexico Honduras size were massive compared to El Salvador, however, El Salvador was much more populated mostly by farmers. A lot of these farmers immigrated to Honduras. One thing they have in common is that they both were fanatic about football. It's 1933 and Oswaldo Lopez Arellano staged a military coup to stop the rise of communism he later held an election and one after rigging it to make him the legitimate president of the country. The other party stated he had rigged the election and after some of his actions, their economy was destroyed so like many other dictators he blamed something for there problems. He blamed the El Salvador immigrants causing the Hondurans to attack the El Salvadorians causing some of them to flee the land they had lived in for a long time. Tensions were high at this point but then football happened and they both had to vs each other in 3 matches.

The first game was in Honduras the Hondurans made sure to make a lot of noise outside the El Salvadorians hotel causing them to have a sleepless night. Because of this, they lost with a 0-1 game. The next game was in El Salvador and this time the Hondurans had a sleepless night. When the game began instead of the Honduran flag they raised a dirty rag. El Salvador won with a 0-3 game. Many people were fighting in the stands and the Hondourans left in a bulletproof van with the coach saying it was good they lost while rocks were thrown at them. Because of this, the Hondurans began to attack the El Salvadorians, even more, some people burned down their houses and threw them off their land. The last game was in Mexico and it was close but El Salvador just won a 3-2 game, a massive fight ensued with both citizens fighting each other. The attacks got worse on the El Salvadorians with a refugee crisis on their hand and their people under attack they declared war on Honduras.

Day 1

El Salvador began with air raids over key Honduras air fields resulting in the destruction of many of the Honduras air force and preventing them from getting into the air. The El Salvadorians then began a land campaign through two major roads connecting the two countries complete with light infantry and tanks.

Day 2
El Salvador made rapid progress towards the capital because of this the organization of American states met in a panic about the current war. They agreed that the war was bad and it should be stopped. They then asked El Salvador to stop the war but they refused as the war was still in there favour. The bombing of Honduras still continued and they barely had gotten any of there air force in the air because of the bombings.

Day 3
Honduras was given supply from the neighbouring country Nicaragua and with this help, they managed to get their air force into the air and then bombed many coastal facilities in El Salvador a lot of smoke was seen. This stopped the Salvadorian advance completely just before reaching the capital.

Day 4
The war was no longer in El Salvador's favour so when the organisation of American states met with El Salvador again they agreed to peace. They were then asked to no longer occupy captured bits of Honduras they continually refused until the Organisation threatened to sanction them. They then accepted with the guaranteed safety of there people. The war left both countries in economic ruin and no one gained anything from it. The massive amount of El Salvadorians resulted in a civil war leaving El Salvador in ruin. Much of Honduras infrastructure was also damaged resulting in there economic crisis developing even more. In the end, El Salvador lost all of their football games so no one gained a single thing.