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VIDEO: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Former Honduras national team manager Juan de Dios Castillo will take over as the coach of El Salvador's national side, the Salvadoran federation announced Saturday.
The 61-year-old Mexican, who has coached nearly a dozen club sides, was to arrive from Monterrey, Mexico, next week to replace Ruben Israel, who resigned this past week, the federation said in a release on its website.
"El Cuate" has coached Real Espana and Olimpia in Honduras, and led "Los Catrachos" on an interim basis in 2011, winning the Copa Centroamericana before yielding to Luis Fernando Suarez in March of that year.
Israel resigned on Monday amid a dispute with the Instituto Nacional de Deportes de El Salvador - or INDES, which provides funding to the federation -- and its president, former player and coach Jaime Rodriguez.
After winning all six of its matches in the second round of World Cup qualifying, El Salvador has only one draw in two games in the semifinal round and is in third place in Group B behind Mexico and Costa Rica. Only two teams will advance to the final round of qualifying.
El Salvador will play friendlies against Guatemala on August 11 in Los Angeles and Jamaica four days later in Washington before facing Guyana in its next qualifying September 7 in San Salvador.
