El Salvador national under-20 football team

El Salvador Under 20
Nickname(s)	La Selecta Sub 20
Association	Federación Salvadoreña; de Fútbol
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Ernesto Góchez
FIFA code	SLV
First colours	Second colours
First international
	Curaçao 1–19 El Salvador ; (Panama City, Panama; March 6, 1962)
Biggest win
	El Salvador 16–0 Nicaragua ; (Guatemala City, Guatemala; August 17, 1982)
Biggest defeat
	Mexico 12–0 El Salvador ; (Havana, Cuba; September 29, 1970); Records for competitive; matches only.

The El Salvador Under 20s football team, more commonly known as La Azulita, is controlled by Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol and represents El Salvador in international Under 20 or youth football competitions.

Their first U-20 World Cup was at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where they saw their first victory at a major FIFA tournament (outside of beach soccer) to Australia by 2–1, scored respectively by Diego Coca and José Peña.

Competitive record[]

FIFA U-20 World Cup Record[]

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1977	Did Not Qualify
1979
1981
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013	Group Stage	3	1	0	2	2	7
2015	Did Not Qualify
2017
2019
2021	To Be Determined
Total	1/23	3	1	0	2	2	7

UNCAF preliminary round[]

Year	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1995	1/2	2	2	0	0	8	1	Qualified
1998	2/2	2	1	0	1	4	5	Did not qualify
2001	3/3	2	0	1	1	1	2	Did not qualify
2003	2/5	4	2	1	1	7	4	Qualified
2005	3/5	4	2	0	2	9	6	Did not qualify
2007	2/3	2	1	0	1	6	7	Did not qualify
/ 2009	1/4	3	2	0	1	6	3	Qualified
/ 2011	2/3 Play-off	4	2	1	1	8	6	Disqualified¹
/ 2013	1/3	2	1	0	1	4	4	Qualified
2013	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Qualified
	9/9	25	13	3	9	53	38

¹The games were forbidden by Concacaf due to El Salvador using an ineligible player

CONCACAF Under-20 Championship[]

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1962	Round 1	3	0	2	1	2	3
1964	Champions	7	5	1	1	12	6
1970	Fourth Place	4	1	1	2	3	8
1973	Did not participate
1974	Did not participate
1976	Round 1	3	0	1	2	2	9
1978	Second Round	6	3	1	2	11	7
1980	Round 1	4	2	0	2	9	4
1982	Second Round	5	2	0	3	13	7
1984	Third Place	8	4	3	1	10	3
1986	Did not participate
1988	Did not participate
1990	Round 1	2	0	0	2	1	4
1992	Did not participate
1994	Fourth Place	8	5	1	2	22	10
1996	Round 1	3	0	1	2	3	6
1998	Did not qualify
2001	Did not qualify
2003	Round 1	3	0	0	3	1	5
2005	Did not qualify
2007	Did not qualify
2009	Round 1	3	0	1	2	3	6
2011	Disqualified
2013	Third Place	5	3	0	2	6	6
2015	Playoff Stage	6	2	2	2	9	10
2017	Classification stage	5	2	0	3	7	11
2018	Qualification stage	6	3	0	3	7	7
Total	1 Champions	79	30	13	33	110	103

Fixtures and results[]

Date:	Location:	Opponent:	Score*	Competition:	El Salvador scorers:
19 February	San Salvador, El Salvador	Luis Angel Firpo	2–3	F	José Villavicencio 9' Bryan Pérez 21'
12 March 2014	Santa Ana, El Salvador	FAS	1–2	F	Amilcar Gonzalez 70'
2 November 2018	IMG Soccer Complex Field #2, Florida, United States	Curaçao	2–1	CC	Gerson Sánchez 59' Christian Rosales 88'
4 November 2018	IMG Soccer Stadium, Florida, United States		3−1	CC	Jose Portillo 39' Jorge Cruz 41' Fernando Clavel 51'
6 November 2018	IMG Soccer Stadium, Florida, United States	Guatemala	2−1	CC	Siliazar Henríquez 32' 58'
10 November 2018	IMG Soccer Stadium, Florida, United States	Guyana	TBD –TBD	CC	TBD 83'

Key

F = Friendly
UF = Unofficial Friendly
U-20 CCQ = 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying
U-20 CC = U-20 Championship
U-20 WC = U-20 World Cup
GS = Group Stage
QF = Quarter-finals
SF = Semi-finals
Fi = Final
PSO = Penalty shootout
a.e.t. = After extra time
El Salvador's scores listed first

Players[]

Current squad[]

The following 20-man squad were called up for Under 20 World Cup qualifiers.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Rodrigo Artiga		Sonsonate reserves
2	2DF	Kevin Menjívar		Turín-FESA
3	2DF	Siliazar Henríquez		Turín-FESA
4	2DF	Jorge Cruz		Once Lobos
5	2DF	William Pinto		Atlético Marte
6	3MF	José Portillo		Alianza reserves
7	3MF	Ángel Callejas		Santa Tecla reserves
8	3MF	Rodrigo Santamaría		FAS reserves
9	4FW	Gerson Sánchez		Santa Tecla reserves
10	4FW	Josué Rivera		FAS
11	4FW	Alexis Cerritos		DC United Academy
12	3MF	Sebastien Rondeau	01/19/00	Sonsonate reserves
13	3MF	Eric García		Club America under 20
14	3MF	Oswaldo González		Turín-FESA
15	2DF	José García		Santa Tecla reserves
16	2DF	Gabriel Escobar		Vancouver Whitecaps Academy
17	3MF	Álvaro Arévalo		Santa Tecla reserves
18	1GK	Isaí Saravia		Washington
19	4FW	Cristian Rosales		Turín-FESA
20	3MF	Fernando Clavel		Metapan reserves

Recent call-ups[]

The following players have been called up in the current U-20 cycle.

Pos.	Player	Caps
1GK	Rodrigo Alexis Perez	Santa Tecla

2DF	TBD	TBD

3MF	Herbert Marcelo Diaz	TBD
3MF	Lisandro Rafael Mejia	TBD
3MF	Milton Quintanilla	TBD
3MF	Diego Barahona	Los Angeles FC Academy

4FW	Josue Rivas	TBD
4FW	Cristian Benjamin Martinez	Turín-FESA
4FW	Jose Edin Mendez	Sonsonate Reserva

Former squads[]

2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup squad[]

Head coach: Mauricio Alfaro ^[1]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK		(1994-03-01)1 March 1994 (aged 19)	Turín-FESA
2	2DF		(1994-01-04)4 January 1994 (aged 19)	León
3	3MF	Tomás Granitto	(1993-06-12)12 June 1993 (aged 20)	Florida Gulf Coast University
4	2DF		(1994-09-27)27 September 1994 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
5	3MF	Romilio Hernández	(1995-06-06)6 June 1995 (aged 18)	Baltimore Bays
6	2DF	Marvin Baumgartner	(1993-01-13)13 January 1993 (aged 20)	Zürich
7	3MF	Jairo Henríquez	(1993-08-31)31 August 1993 (aged 19)	Turín-FESA
8	3MF		(1995-01-24)24 January 1995 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
9	4FW	José Peña	(1994-12-10)10 December 1994 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
10	3MF	Diego Coca	(1994-08-26)26 August 1994 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
11	4FW	Maikon Orellana	(1993-11-12)12 November 1993 (aged 19)	Brøndby
12	2DF		(1994-10-01)1 October 1994 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
13	2DF	Miguel Lemus	(1993-10-26)26 October 1993 (aged 19)	Turín-FESA
14	3MF		(1995-04-16)16 April 1995 (aged 18)	Atlético San José
15	3MF	René Gómez	(1993-01-08)8 January 1993 (aged 20)	Turín-FESA
16	3MF		(1993-05-08)8 May 1993 (aged 20)	University of the District of Columbia
17	2DF		(1994-07-15)15 July 1994 (aged 18)	Turín-FESA
18	1GK		(1993-07-03)3 July 1993 (aged 19)	FAS
19	3MF		(1995-12-09)9 December 1995 (aged 17)	D.C. United
20	4FW		(1993-03-25)25 March 1993 (aged 20)	Santa Tecla
21	1GK		(1994-09-09)9 September 1994 (aged 18)	Longwood University

Personnel[]

Current staff[]

Info may be outdated

Head Coach	Ernesto Gochez
Assistant Coach
GK Coach	Raúl Antonio García
Physical Coordinator
Medical Trainer
Kinesiologist
Equipment Manager

Manager History[]

Conrado Miranda (1964, 1979)
Raul Magana (1985,1994)
Carlos Recinos (2000–2001)
(2002–2003)
Cesar Acevedo (2004–2005)
José Luis Rugamas (2006–2007)
Norberto Huezo (2008–2009)
Mauricio Alfaro (2009–2015)
Eduardo Lara (2016–2017)
(2017–2018)
Ernesto Gochez (2018)

Record versus other nations[]

Records for competitive matches only. As of 01-22-15

Nat	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Antigua and Barbuda	1	1	0	0	5	0	+5
Australia	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Belize	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4
Bermuda	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3
Canada	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4
Colombia	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3
Costa Rica	8	1	2	5	6	13	−7
Cuba	4	3	0	1	5	2	+3
Curaçao	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4
	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Guatemala	12	3	3	6	13	20	−7
Guyana	1	1	0	5	5	0	+5
Haiti	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3
Honduras	7	2	2	4	10	16	−6
Jamaica	3	1	1	1	4	2	+2
Mexico	8	0	0	8	3	25	−12
Nicaragua	6	5	1	0	26	5	+21
Panama	7	4	0	3	13	13	0
Suriname	1	0	0	1	1	6	−5
Trinidad and Tobago	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1
Turkey	1	0	0	1	0	3	−3
United States	7	3	1	3	11	9	+2

Honours[]

CONCACAF U-20 Championship
- Winners (1): 1964
- Third Place (2): 1984, 2013

References[]

^ "Completa la nómina de la Selección Sub-20 para Copa del Mundo Turquía 2013" (in Spanish). www.culebritamacheteada.sv. 2013-05-23. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.

External links[]

Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol Official Site (Spanish)
El Salvador national football team (Non-Official Site) (Spanish)

[1] "Completa la nómina de la Selección Sub-20 para Copa del Mundo Turquía 2013" (in Spanish). www.culebritamacheteada.sv. 2013-05-23. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.

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v t National under-20 association football teams of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
North America	Canada Mexico United States
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Caribbean	Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bermuda¹ ³ Cuba Curaçao Dominica ^{2 3} ³ Guyana² Haiti Jamaica ³ Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis ³ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten³ Suriname² Trinidad and Tobago U.S. Virgin Islands
Defunct	Netherlands Antilles
1: Inside the North American zone, but CFU member. 2: South American country, but affiliated to CONCACAF and CFU. 3: Full CONCACAF member, but non-FIFA member.