The Rise of Veteran Football Leagues in Honduras: San Pedro Sula Veterans League Dominates with Chupacabras

The Rise of Veteran Football Leagues in Honduras: San Pedro Sula Veterans League Dominates with Chupacabras

2024-04-24 00:12:00

2024-04-23

The veteran leagues in Honduras have become an attraction for football lovers who enjoy every weekend the confrontation between these teams in different parts of the country.

On the national stage, these leagues have become quite popular, and there are businessmen who pay for the salaries of former players National League to compete for the trophy, even if there are others who take it for fun.

One of the new animators San Pedro Sula Veterans League That’s the unique team Chupacabraswhich previously had the presence of the Honduran World Cup player Carlo Costly.

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Now this cast, which is led by the radio host Gabriel ‘Flash’ Pintowill have on his team two great former Central American professional players such as Mario Berriosmultimaster with Marathon and the two-time world champion with Costa Rica, Michael Umaña.

The signing of Umaña is solely due to the friendship that the defender has with him Robert Carlosexporter of Marathon y Royal Spain who lives in the USA and who is a close friend and goalkeeper of the club, so the loft is the bomb Sampedrana Major League of veteran football for the 2024 season.

“The team is sustained by contributions from managers, sponsors and contributions from the players game by game, it’s not like everyone thinks it’s a team with money,” he says. Gabriel Pinto.

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“It is a very competitive league and Chupacabra has been fighting since entering the league. In two and a half years we have 3 finals, 2 cups and a league, we won a cup tournament. This year we participated in LINAVE, the National Veterans League , like ligatoes,” mentions the popular ‘Flash’ with great pride.

And the club has only been registered in the tournament for a couple of seasons and it won’t be until this season that they get recognized players in their ranks. “They had been representing San Pedro Sula for more than 15 years, until now the mighty Chupacabras appeared,” he says, laughing.

And he admits, “right now we have recognized players, but in previous tournaments we only played tough forwards.” The Chucapabras will thus have in their ranks Michael Umanaremembered by all following scoring the decisive penalty that qualified Costa Rica to the quarter-finals in brazil world cup 2016, eliminate Greece.

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