All Whites v Honduras, Sunday 12.30pm, SS3

New fred for the Sunday game.

 

Yours please.

He said he may try 4-4-2 later in the game but will stick with 3-4-3 at the beginning.

Apparently Ricki did say 4-4-2 was quite likely for this game but has changed his mind now:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/6991435/Kosta-Barbarouses-desperate-to-build-on-success/

"Herbert said he would assess players today before settling on the starting XI to play world No62 Honduras, but didn't forecast many changes. He had flirted with the idea of switching formation to 4-4-2 but was likely to wait for Winston Reid and Tony Lochhead to join the team in Honiara before making that move."

HONDURAS TEAM

Ranked 62 by FIFA but in fact probably better than El Salvador (49):

Honduras are current winners of the Central American (UNCAF) championship after beating El Salvador 2-0 in the semi and Costa Rica 2-1 in the final last year- El Salvador only finished  fourth.

CONCACAF Gold Cup (CONCACAF Federation championship) in the States last year: sole loss in group stage 1-0 to Jamaica; beat Costa Rica in the quarters, lost 2-0 to Mexico in the semis.  

Other major results over last year: drew away to El Salvador in friendly 2-2 on 29/05/11; Honduras 2 - Venezuela 0 10/08/11; beat Jamaica 2-1 11/10/11; beat Serbia 2-0 13/11/11

Only played twice so far this year: 2-0 loss away to Ecuador 29/02/11; 1 - 1 draw away to Costa Rica, friendly 11/04/12

Video highlights vs Costa Rica: (Good, quick attacking team- good Honduras goal 50 sec. in here):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTWft3oB5g&feature=related

vs Ecuador 29/02/12:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPY-DNebe0E

vs Serbia 13/11/11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W9VQzGQITE

vs El Salvador 29/05/11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWFtTd_oPeg

RESULTS: Full Results Over Last Year

Date/ Tournament/ Venue/ Result/   Hond. Scorers

 

 

 

                 May 29, 2011 Friendly Houston,
United States: El Salvador 2 – 2 Honduras Costly 44' Bengtson 50' (pen.) /  June 6, 2011                        2011 CONCACAFGoldCup Los Angeles:
  Honduras 0 – 0 Guatemala None /      June 10, 2011 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup Miami: Grenada 1 – 7 Honduras Bengtson 26', 37' Costly 28', 67', 71' W. Martínez 89' Mejía 90+3' /      June 13, 2011 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup New Jersey:
  Honduras 0 – 1 Jamaica None /      June 18, 2011 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup New York:
  Costa Rica 1 – 1 Honduras Bengtson 49' /     June 22, 2011 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup Houston:
  Honduras 0 – 2 Mexico None /                     August 10, 2011 Friendly Fort Lauderdale:
  Honduras 2 – 0 Venezuela Costly 57', 68' /                 September 3,   2011 Friendly New Jersey:
  Honduras 0 – 2 Colombia None /             September 6, 2011 Friendly San Pedro Sula,
Honduras: Honduras 0 – 3 Paraguay None /    October 8, 2011 Friendly Miami,
United States United States 1 – 0 Honduras None /   October 11, 2011 Friendly La Ceiba,
Honduras Honduras 2 – 1 Jamaica Bengtson 1', Martínez 54' /                November 13,  2011 Friendly Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano,
Honduras Honduras 2 – 0 Serbia Bengtson 2', 20' / February 29, 2012 Friendly Guayaquil,
Ecuador Ecuador 2 – 0 Honduras  /April 11 2012   Friendly   San Jose, Costa Rica: Costa Rica 1 - 1 Honduras 

PLAYERS:

Star players called up v All Whites include Figueroa (Wigan, Premier Lge), Palacios (Stoke City), Izaguerre (Celtic, Scotland), Bernardez (San Jose, MLS), Espinoza (Kansas City, MLS), Lozano (Alcoyano, Spain 2nd div.).

A much older, more experienced squad than El Salvador's with eleven players having more than 40 caps.

 

Current squad

The following players were selected for the friendly matches against New Zealand on May 2012.

Caps and goals current as of April 11, 2012 after match against Costa Rica.

  Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club # GK José Mendoza  (age 23) 0 0 Platense / # GK Noel Valladares  (age 35) 100 0 Olimpia /   # DF Maynor Figueroa (age 29) 85 2 Wigan Athletic / # DF Víctor Bernárdez (age 30) 52 2 San Jose Earthquakes / # DF Emilio Izaguirre (age 26) 46 1 Celtic / # DF Mauricio Sabillón (age 33) 44 0 Marathón / # DF Johnny Leverón (age 22) 19 3 Motagua /

#

DF Mario René Berríos (age 29) 14 0 Marathón / # DF Juan Carlos Garcia (age 24) 12 0 Olimpia / # DF Javier Arnaldo Portillo (age 31) 7 0 Olimpia / # DF Brayan Beckeles (age 26) 9 0 Olimpia / # DF Wilmer Crisanto (age 22) 3 0 Victoria / # DF Irving Guerrero (age 22) 1 0 Deportes Savio / # DF Rommel Murillo (age 28) 3 0 Marathón / # DF Daniel Tejada (age 22) 0 0 Real España /   # MF Wilson Palacios (age 27) 77 5 Stoke City / # MF Óscar García (age 27) 65 1 Olimpia / # MF Roger Espinoza (age 25) 24 3 Sporting Kansas City / # MF Alfredo Mejía (age 22) 14 1 Motagua / # MF Édder Delgado (age 25) 14 0 Real España / # MF Melvin Valladares (age 28) 16 1 Motagua / # MF Carlos Discua (age 27) 1 0 Motagua / # MF Hendry Cordoba (age 29) 0 0 Platense /   # FW David Suazo (age 32) 55 17 Unattached / # FW Carlo Costly (age 29) 50 20 Unattached / # FW Allan Lalín (age 31) 11 1 Real España / # FW Anthony Lozano (age 19) 2 0 Alcoyano / # FW Kervin Johnson (age 24) 1 0 Deportes Savio

 

Sorry if it's already been covered, but why don't we play the likes of Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico in their own countries?  If it comes to inter continental play off surely we would instead of the USA hosting the games?

 

God I'd love a win tomorrow..

Probably more money to be made playing them in the States, with the large ex-pat populations.

Why must I toileth upon the Sabbath, oh Lord?

Anyone know where to find a stream so I can watch at work?

On looking at the You Tube highlights of Honduras I posted links to above, they appear a better side  than El Salvador who could cause us a lot of problems with their pace up front.

In particular, their danger man in recent games looks to be the number 9 David Suazo who has spent most of his career in Italian Serie A, mostly notably with Inter Milan, and also had a spell with Benfica, most recently playing for Catania in Serie A. He's likely to start against NZ.

Suazo uses his pace and scores a great goal vs. Costa Rica in Honduras' last game last month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTWft3oB5g&feature=related

 

 

Clapham to start today

 

anyone knows the lineup?

 

Gonna have a look for some streams.

 

http://www.justin.tv/13078

http://www.justin.tv/golive_72

 

All I got so far, bottom link is not great quality...

Perfect day to stay inside and watch Football.  Go All whites!!!!!. 

 

Edit:  No Mossy in goal soooks.  Clapham Brockie starting. 

Ahhh...that would make sense

                     Paston

        Sigmund-Smith-Vicelich

 Brockie-Clapham-McGlinchy-Hogg

         Rojas-Smeltz-Barbarouses

all these links go to the stupid el salvadoor game

 

Lots of streams then if it is a continuation of the above:

http://www.hahasport.com/v-4/0/130/v-413042.html

http://futvpro01.blogspot.com/p/canal-futbol-01.html

This was showing build up but now hes switched to basketball

 

Upload to tinypic.com and post it from there.

From the stuff live blog:

12.52pm: Kick-off has been delayed due to the El Salvador-Moldova match preceding it running over time. No definite start time but hopefully we're not waiting too long

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/6996806/Live-blog-All-Whites-vs-Honduras-friendly

 

Marco, hand on heart = awesome!

 

How long was that anthem ??