Luis Anaya and Victor Merino scored for the hosts, El Salvador in the 2:0 victory over Honduras at the Estadio Cuscatlan in San Salvador. The win was the first for the cuscatlecos over the catrachos since a 1:0 triumph on 15 February 2003 in Colon, Honduras.
Elsewhere, goals by Alberto Blanco and Victor Herrera led Panama to a 2:1 win against visiting Guatemala at the Estadio Rommel Fernández in Ciudad de Panamá. The victory ended the canaleros three-game winless streak.
Meanwhile, Olivier Occean's goal gave Canada a 1:1 tie against the hosts, Iceland at the Laugardalsvollur in Reykjavik on Wednesday, while Oscar Rojas scored for Costa Rica in the 1:1 draw against visiting Peru at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in San José.
In other friendlies on Wednesday, Colombia defeated Mexico by a score of 1:0 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado USA, while Sweden topped visiting USA 1:0 at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg.
Friendlies
22.08.2007: San José, COSTA RICA; Estadio Ricardo Saprissa
COSTA RICA - PERU 1:1 (1:0)
Oscar ROJAS 7' - Pedro GARCIA 57'
CRC: Wardy Alfaro - Freddy Fernández, Pablo Chinchilla, Michael Umaña, Roy Myrie (53: Marvin Angulo), Esteban Sirias (53: Pablo Herrera), Danny Fonseca (61: Willy Eras), Walter Centeno, óscar Rojas (70: Allan Alemán), Rónald Gómez (70: Alonso Solís), álvaro Saborío (61: Víctor Núñez).
TD: Hernán MEDFORD
PER: Leao Butrón - Amilton Prado, Miguel Villalta, Walter Vilches, Wenceslao Fernández (69: Edgar Villamarín), Rayner Torres, Juan José Jayo (65: Ernesto Anakaki), Pedro García (87: Gian Franco), Martín Hidalgo (59: Damián Ismodes), Juan Diego González (65: Roberto Jiménez), Johan Fano (55: William Chiroque).
TD: José DEL SOLAR
R: Vinicio MENA (CRC)
22.08.2007: Reykjavik, ICELAND; Laugardalsvollur (A: 5000)
ICELAND - CANADA 1:1 (0:0)
Ragnar SIGUROSSON 62' - Olivier OCCEAN 75'
CAN: Pat Onstad - Mike Klukowski, Daniel Imhof, Andre Hainault, Paul Stalteri, Julian De Guzman, Patrice Bernier, Iain Hume (60: Olivier Occean), Tomasz Radzinski (72: Nik Ledgerwood), Issey Nakajima-Farran, Ali Gerba. Booked: Bernier 63', DeGuzman 90'+
TD: Dale MITCHELL
ISL: Daoi Larusson (46: Fjalar Porgeirsson) - Gretar Rafn Steinsson, Hermann Hreioarsson (63: Hjalmar Jonsson), Ivar Ingimarsson (85: Kristjan Orn Sigurosson), Ragnar Sigurosson, Kari Arnason, Brynjar Bjorn Gunnarsson (67: Helgi Sigurosson), Johannes Karl Guojonsson, Baldur Aoalsteinsson, Emil Hallfreosson (85: Veigar Pall Gunnarsson), Gunnar Heioar Porvaldsson (79: Davio Por Vioarsson). Booked: Porgeirsson 89'
TD: Eyjolfur SVERRISSON
R: Tony ASUMAA (FIN)
22.08.2007: San Salvador, EL SALVADOR; Estadio Cuscatlan
EL SALVADOR - HONDURAS 2:0 (2:0)
Luis ANAYA 26'; Victor MERINO 40'
SLV: D. Salinas - L. Anaya, M. Dubón, A. Escobar, A. Pacheco, V. Merino, R. Sánchez, D. Alas, E. Quintanilla (63: F. Medrano), C. Calderón, R. Cerritos.
HON: O. Vallecillo (45: J. Bodden) - S. Mendoza (45: B. Lozano), V. Bernárdez, E. Vallecillo, M. Figueroa, E. Izaguirre, J. Claros (37: D. Turcios), M. Rodríguez, E. Martínez, C. Mejía, O. García.
R: Elmer BONILLA (SLV)
22.08.2007: Ciudad de Panamá, PANAMA; Estadio Rommel Fernández
PANAMA - GUATEMALA 2:1 (1:1)
Alberto BLANCO 31'; Victor HERRERA 52' pen - Transito MONTEPEQUE 23'
PAN: Jaime Penedo (46: J. Calderón) - Felipe Baloy, Luis Moreno (78: E. Vásquez), Víctor Herrera (73: M. Castillo), Carlos Rivera, Román Torres, Rolando Escobar (78: C. Barahona), Alberto Blanco, Gabriel Torres, Juan Pérez, Edwin Aguilar (83: Quintero).
TD: Alexandre GUIMARAES
GUA: Paulo César Motta - Néstor Martínez, Gustavo Cabrera, Henry Medina, Claudio Albizuris, Leonel Noriega (56: C. Quiñónez), Freddy Thompson (85: E. Villatoro), Marvin ávila (60: H. Sandoval), Gonzalo Romero (58: J. Contreras), T. Montepeque (66: C. Figueroa), Carlos Ruiz. TD: Hernán Darío GOMEZ
R: Edgar RODRIGUEZ (CRC)
22.08.2007: Commerce City, Colorado USA; Dick's Sporting Goods Park
MEXICO - COLOMBIA 0:1 (0:0)
Jaime CASTRILLON 52'
MEX: Guillermo Ochoa - Omar Esparza, Adrían Aldrete, Jonny Magallón, Julio Cesar Domínguez, Gerardo Torrado, Emmanuel Cerda (46: Cesar Villaluz), Patricio Araujo (57: Jorge Hernández), Omar Bravo (76: Santiago Fernández), Luis ángel Landín (65: Enrique Esqueda), Carlos Gerardo Rodríguez (65: Edgar Castillo). Booked: none
TD: Hugo SANCHEZ
COL: Agustín Julio - Walter Moreno, Aquivaldo Mosquera, Steven Vélez (77: Alexis Enriquez), Gerardo Vallejo, José Amaya, Yulián Anchico, Hugo Rodallega (80: Freddy Montero), Carmelo Valencia (46: Falcao García), Jaime Castrillón (70: Danilson Cordoba), McNelly Torres (61: Javier Araujo). Booked: Amaya 42', Moreno 82', Cordoba 89'
TD: Jorge Luis PINTO
R: Kevin STOTT (USA)
22.08.2007: Gothenburg, SWEDEN; Ullevi Stadium (A: 20648)
SWEDEN - USA 0:1 (0:1)
Kim KALLSTROM 56'
USA: Tim Howard - Steve Cherundolo, Oguchi Onyewu, Carlos Bocanegra (76: Jay Demerit), Jonathan Bornstein (64: Jonathan Spector,), Benny Feilhaber, Michael Bradley, Pablo Mastroeni (46: Bobby Convey), DaMarcus Beasley (76: Sal Zizzo), Landon Donovan (64: Kamani Hill), Clint Dempsey (85: Charlie Davies). Booked: Bocanegra 44'
TD: Bob BRADLEY
SWE: Rami Shaaban - Mikael Nilsson (46: Matías Concha), Olof Mellberg, Petter Hansson (46: Daniel Majstorovic), Erik Edman, Daniel Andersson, Kennedy Bakircioglü, Kim Källström, Christian Wilhelmsson (46: Niclas Alexandersson), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (66: Markus Rosenberg), Johan Elmander (76: Dusan Djuric). Booked: Källström 31'
TD: Lars LAGERBACK
R: Kevin BLOM (NED)
Photo #1 - El Salvador vs. Honduras, from laprensa.hn.com
Photo #2 - Panama vs. Guatemala, by Arnulfo Franco/AP
