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Raúl Leguías
Raúl Moisés Leguías Ávila (born 9 October 1981) is a football forward who plays for AD Santa Rosa. Club career A much-travelled striker or attacking midfielder, Leguías has spent most of his playing career in Panama and Nicaragua but he has also played club football in Guatemala, El Salvador, Angola and Uruguay. He made his debut with Guatemalan second division side San Pedro in February 2009 only to return to Nicaragua to play for Managua and Real Estelí. In summer 2012 he joined Angolan outfit Onze Bravos, where he scored on his debut and signed for Diriangén a year later. In January 2014 he arrived in Uruguay to play for Cerro Largo. Leguías and compatriot Luis Fernando Copete joined Costa Rican side AS Puma for the 2015 Verano season. Leguias with 107 Goals Scored in 14 Seasons with 8 different teams occupies the 8th position among the top scorers in the history of the Short Tournaments (as of the 2003–04 season) in the Liga Primera de Nicaragua. Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colón, Panama
Colón () is a city and Port#Seaport, seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was located entirely on Manzanillo Island, surrounded by Limon Bay, Panama, Limon Bay, Manzanillo Bay, and the Folks River, Panama, Folks River; however, since the disestablishment of the Panama Canal Zone, the city's limits have been redefined to include Fort Gulick, a former United States Army, U.S. Army base, as well as the former Panama Canal Zone towns of Cristóbal, Colón, Cristobal, Margarita, Panama, Margarita, and Coco Solo. History The city was founded in 1850 as the Atlantic terminal of the Panama Canal Railway, Panama Railroad, then underwent construction to meet the demand during the California Gold Rush for a fast route to California. For a number of years early in its history, the sizable United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Walter Ferretti
Club Deportivo Walter Ferretti is a Nicaraguan association football, football team who play in the Primera División de Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Premier Division. They are based in Managua. History The club was founded in 1984 on the initiative of Walter Ferretti Fonseca. Its intention was to serve as the sporting wing of the Sandinista Police, and it initially competed in an institutional league for government ministries. Later, the team moved into the Nicaraguan league system. At that time, they competed under the name of DGPS (''Dirección General de La Polícia Sandinista''). DGPS stormed through the lower levels of the Nicaraguan league system, winning the Second Division in 1985 with an undefeated record. That lifted them to the top flight of the country, where they have competed ever since. Late in 1988, Ferretti died in a car accident on the road to León, Nicaragua, Leon. In 1991, the club was renamed to C.D. Walter Ferretti in his honor. The 1997–98 season saw F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Pedro Marrero
Estadio Nacional de Fútbol Pedro Marrero is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. Built as a baseball stadium, it is now used primarily for football matches, and is the former home of CF Ciudad de La Habana. The stadium holds 30,000 and was built in 1929. Originally named Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical (or familiarly, La Tropical), it hosted the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games, the 1937 Bacardi Bowl and many Cuban League baseball games. After the revolution, it was renamed for Pedro Marrero, a young man who died in the attack on the Moncada Barracks. History During the golden age of Cuban baseball, La Tropical was the home of the Cuban League from the early 1930s to 1946. It also hosted major international events, including five Amateur World Series tournaments from 1939 to 1943. However, it was displaced as the temple of Cuban baseball after the construction of the nearby Estadio El Cerro (the modern Estadio Latinoamericano) in 1946. After 1946, La Tropica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Copa Centroamericana
The 2013 Copa Centroamericana was the 12th Copa Centroamericana, the regional championship for men's national association football teams in Central America. It was organized by the ''Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol'' or UNCAF, and took place in Costa Rica from 18 January to 27 January 2013. The top five teams go on to participate in the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The tournament consisted of two stages. In the group stage of the tournament finals, the seven teams competed for points in two round-robin groups, one of four teams and the other of three, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These four teams advanced to the semi-final stage, with the winners advancing to the final, while the losers contested a third-place match. The fifth-place match was played between the third-ranked teams from the group stage. In the final, Costa Rica defeated defending champions Honduras 1–0, with Giancarlo González's goal in the 38th minute giving Costa Rica their seventh Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA World Cup Qualification
The FIFA World Cup qualification is a set of competitive matches that a national association football team plays in order to qualify for one of the available berths at the final tournament of the men's FIFA World Cup. Qualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones, each organized by their respective confederations: AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe). For each World Cup, FIFA decides the number of places in the finals allocated to each of the zones, based on the numbers and relative strengths of the confederations' teams. As a courtesy, the host receives an automatic berth selection, as has happened with the immediate past tournament winner during much of the competition's history. All other finalists are determined on a standalone qualifying round achievement without regard to previous achievements. History The berths for the inaugural 1930 tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama National Football Team
The Panama national football team () represents Panama in men's international Association football, football and is governed by the Panamanian Football Federation, Federación Panameña de Fútbol (). The team represents all three FIFA, CONCACAF and the regional Central American Football Union, UNCAF. Panama qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018 tournament in Russia and scored their first goal of the World Cup against England national football team, England, although they lost the match 6–1. They finished bottom of their group. Panama finished as runners-up at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2005, 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2013 and 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2023, losing to the United States men's national soccer team, United States on the former two occasions and to Mexico national football team, Mexico in the latter. Panama has also competed in the sub-regional Copa Centroamericana which they won in 2009 UNCAF Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
