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2009 UNCAF Nations Cup

Copa Naciones de UNCAF Copa Naciones DIGICEL
Tournament details
Host country	Honduras
Dates	January 22 - February 1
Teams	7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Panama (1st title)
Runners-up	Costa Rica
Third place	Honduras
Fourth place	El Salvador
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	32 (2.29 per match)
Attendance	114,000 (8,143 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andy Furtado (3 goals)
Best player(s)	Keylor Navas
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The UNCAF Nations Cup 2009 was the tenth edition of the UNCAF Nations Cup, the biennial football (soccer) tournament for the CONCACAF-affiliated national teams of Central America. The first five places qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The event was going to take place in Panama City, Panama between January 22 and February 1, 2009, but the Panamanian FA announced that they would not host the event due to not having an adequate stadium available for the time period of the tournament. The alternative hosts were Honduras and Guatemala. Honduras submitted an official replacement bid on November 12, and after some consideration it was moved to Honduras. All games were played in Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Tegucigalpa. The tournament was sponsored by Digicel. On 1 February 2009 Panama won the tournament, the first UNCAF Nations Cup win in the country's history.

Participating nations

All seven UNCAF members participated in the tournament:

•  Belize
•  Costa Rica (Defending Champions)
•  El Salvador
•  Guatemala
•  Honduras (Hosts)
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama

Squads

Stadium

Tegucigalpa	Tegucigalpa
	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino
	Capacity: 35,000

First round

The group stage draw took place on December 9, 2008 in Guatemala City. The reigning champions, Costa Rica, and the hosts, Honduras, were automatically drawn as top seed in their respective groups. Costa Rica was paired with Panama and Guatemala, the first two runners-up from the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup. The remaining teams – El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Belize – were drawn into the same group as Honduras.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Honduras	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	El Salvador	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
3	Nicaragua	3	0	2	1	3	6	−3	2	Qualified to the Fifth place playoff
4	Belize	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

El Salvador	1–1	Nicaragua
Avilés 18' (o.g.)	Report	Medina 85'

Honduras	2–1	Belize
Guevara 32' Martínez 61'	Report	Castillo 86'

Belize	1–4	El Salvador
James 73'	Report	Pacheco 11' (pen.), 30' (pen.) Sánchez 75' Ayala 88'

Honduras	4–1	Nicaragua
Rodríguez 16' Solórzano 65' (o.g.) S. Martínez 73' W. Martínez 79'	Report	Reyes 30'

Nicaragua	1–1	Belize
Barrera 66'	Report	Usher 27'

Honduras	2–0	El Salvador
Pavón 34' (pen.) Chávez 73'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	2	2	0	0	6	1	+5	6	Qualified to the Semifinals
2	Panama	2	1	0	1	1	3	−2	3
3	Guatemala	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0	Qualified to the Fifth place playoff

Costa Rica	3–0	Panama
Furtado 10', 16' Sánchez 55'	Report

Guatemala	1–3	Costa Rica
López 51'	Report	Sánchez 34' Herrera 59' Segura 61'

Panama	1–0	Guatemala
Zapata 31'	Report

Final round

Fifth place

The winner of the fifth place match qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup as the fifth and final entrant from Central America.

Nicaragua	2–0	Guatemala
Wilson 39', 85'	Report

Semifinals

All four semifinalists qualified for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Costa Rica	3–0 Awarded	El Salvador
Furtado 18'	Report

• The game was called after sixty minutes of play when El Salvador was reduced to six players. Two El Salvador players, Alexander Escobar and Eliseo Quintanilla, were awarded red cards in the first half, and Deris Umanzor, Rodolfo Zelaya, and goalkeeper Juan José Gómez were injured and had to leave the game after El Salvador had already exhausted their three substitutions. The game was awarded 3–0 to Costa Rica

Honduras	0–1	Panama
	Report	Phillips 40'

Third place

Honduras	1–0	El Salvador
Espinoza 30'	Report

Final

Panama	0–0	Costa Rica
	Report
Penalties
Herrera Aguilar Phillips Jaramillo Henríquez	5–3	Furtado Núñez Jiménez Oviedo

Panama

Costa Rica

PANAMA: GK 1 Jaime Penedo DF 2 Carlos Rivera DF 4 José Torres (C) DF 6 Amílcar Henríquez DF 13 Adolfo Machado DF 14 Armando Gun MF 5 Manuel Torres  81' MF 10 Nelson Barahona  81' MF 15 Ricardo Phillips FW 8 Gabriel Torres  63'  69' FW 9 Orlando Rodríguez  62' Substitutions: FW 7 Edwin Aguilar  62' MF 11 Víctor Herrera  69' MF 20 Luis Jaramillo  81' Manager: Gary Stempel

COSTA RICA: GK 23 Ricardo González DF 3 Freddy Fernández (C) DF 4 Michael Umaña DF 12 Leonardo González  37' DF 17 Pablo Herrera  72' DF 19 Carlos Johnson MF 5 Cristian Oviedo  75' MF 15 Jorge Davis MF 22 Álvaro Sánchez  46' FW 7 Alejandro Alpízar  6' FW 11 Andy Furtado Substitutions: FW 21 Víctor Núñez  46' MF 16 Pablo Brenes  58' MF 14 Paolo Jiménez  72' Manager: Rodrigo Kenton

Results

2009 UNCAF Nations Cup champions
Panama First title

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final status
1	Panama	4	2	1	1	2	3	−1	7	Champions
2	Costa Rica	4	3	1	0	9	1	+8	10	Runner-up
3	Honduras	5	4	0	1	9	3	+6	12	Third place winner
4	El Salvador	5	1	1	3	5	8	−3	4	Third place loser
5	Nicaragua	4	1	2	1	5	6	−1	5	Fifth place winner
6	Guatemala	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0	Fifth place loser
7	Belize	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1	Eliminated in Group stage

• Top 5 qualified to the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Scorers

3 goals

• Andy Furtado

2 goals

• Alfredo Pacheco
• Samuel Wilson
• Walter Martínez

1 goal

• Alberto Zapata
• Ricardo Phillips
• Lisbey Castillo
• Jerome James
• Harrison Róchez
• William Sunsing
• Roberto Segura
• Álvaro Sánchez
• Pablo Herrera
• Marlon Medina
• Armando Reyes
• Juan Barrera
• Marvin Chávez
• Mario Rodríguez
• Saúl Martínez
• Carlos Pavón
• Emil Martínez
• Amado Guevara
• Roger Espinoza
• Minor López
• Ramón Sánchez
• Carlos Ayala

1 goal (Own Goal)

• Silvio Avilés (for El Salvador)
• David Solorzano (for Honduras)

See also

• UNCAF Nations Cup
• 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup
• Central American Football Union

References

1. ^ "Six-time champ Costa Rica drawn with Panama, Guatemala in Central American Nations Cup". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 9 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
2. "Panamá organizará la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). Tanto Fútbol. 28 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
3. ^ "Central American Nations Cup moved from Panama to Honduras". Guatemala City: CONCACAF. 17 November 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
4. "Panamá descarta organizar la Uncaf". La Nación (in Spanish). Panama. 2 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
5. Estrada, Campo Elías (22 February 2008). "Copa de Naciones está más allá que acá". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 February 2008.
6. "Se confirma Honduras como sede de la Copa de Naciones de la UNCAF del 2009" (in Spanish). UNCAF. 16 November 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
7. ^ "Digicel, UNCAF launch 2009 Nations Cup". The Nassau Guardian. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
8. WASHINGTONPOST.com – Monday Kickaround – 2 February 2009

External links

• 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup at CONCACAF.com

• 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup
• 2009 in Central American football
• Copa Centroamericana
• International association football competitions hosted by Honduras
• 2008–09 in Salvadoran football
• 2008–09 in Costa Rican football
• 2008–09 in Honduran football
• 2008–09 in Guatemalan football
• 2008–09 in Nicaraguan football
• 2008–09 in Panamanian football
• 2008–09 in Belizean football