Puerto Rico national football team

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Puerto Rico
Nickname(s)	El Huracán Azul-
Association	Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Colin Clarke
Captain	Marco Velez
Home stadium	Estadio Juan Ramón Loubriel
FIFA code	PUR
FIFA ranking	149
Highest FIFA ranking	97 (March 1994)
Lowest FIFA ranking	202 (November 2004)
Elo ranking	168
First kit 　 Second kit
First international
Cuba 1 - 1 Puerto Rico (Cuba; November 12, 1940)
Biggest win
Puerto Rico 4 - 0 Cayman Islands (Georgetown, Guyana; March 14, 1993)
Biggest defeat
Netherlands Antilles 15 - 0 Puerto Rico (Venezuela; January 15, 1959)

The Puerto Rico national football team is the national team of Puerto Rico and is controlled by Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol. Puerto Rico's national football team entered the qualification for the 2010 World Cup, advancing to the second round by defeating the Dominican Republic.

Contents 1 History 2 World Cup record 3 Gold Cup record 4 Pan American Games record 5 Fixtures and Results 5.1 Upcoming fixtures 6 Current squad 7 2010 World Cup Qualifier Squad 8 References 9 External links

[edit] History

Puerto Rico has not played a FIFA-sanctioned international fixture since November 2004 when they lost against Grenada 2-5 during Caribbean Cup qualification. In October 2005, they lost to non-FIFA members Guadeloupe 1-3 in a friendly. Some of the Puerto Rican national team's players also play for the Puerto Rico Islanders of the USL First Division.

Chris Armas played for Puerto Rico in the 1993 Shell Caribbean Cup. The competition was not then recognised by FIFA and so his five matches were classed as friendlies. He was therefore later allowed to switch his allegiance to the USA,^[1] for whom he has since been capped over fifty times.

After a very long absence, the Puerto Rican national team re-emerged on Jan. 16, 2008, with a 2-0 victory in a friendly against Bermuda. This friendly was played in preparation for a World Cup Qualifier against the Dominican Republic scheduled for the 26th of March, 2008. Until this two-game sweep against the Bermuda national team, Puerto Rico's most recent victory was 1-0 against Barbados in 1994. The second game of this friendly series was won by Puerto Rico, with a score of 1-0. Following this the team paticipated in the last preparatory game before participating in a CONCACAF qualificatory. This game was against Trinidad and Tobago, a team that had participted in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The final outcome was a 2-2 draw, Puerto Rico scored the first two goals in the game's first half, and on the second half Trinidad and Tobago tied the game with a goal in the closing minutes of the period.^[2]

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Did not enter
• 1986 to 2002 Did not qualify
• 2006 - Did not enter

[edit] Gold Cup record

• 1991 to 1993 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Did not enter
• 2000 to 2003 - Did not qualify
• 2005 - Did not qualify
• 2007 - Did not enter

[edit] Pan American Games record

• 1951 to 1975 - Did not compete
• 1979 - Round 2
• 1983 to 2007 - Did not compete

[edit] Fixtures and Results

Date	Tournament	Location	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Scorers
June 4, 2008	2010 World Cup Qualifier	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	4:0	Puerto Rico
26 March 2008	2010 World Cup Qualifier	Bayamon	Puerto Rico	1:0 (aet)	Dominican Republic	P. Villegas 96'(pen)
26 January 2008	Friendly	Bayamon	Puerto Rico	2:2	Trinidad and Tobago	K. Low 20' C. Megaloudis 33'
18 January 2008	Friendly	Hamilton	Bermuda	0:1	Puerto Rico	N. Delgado
16 January 2008	Friendly	Hamilton	Bermuda	0:2	Puerto Rico	T. Graham 47' A. Cabrero

[edit] Upcoming fixtures

Date	Tournament	Location	Home Team	Away Team
June 14, 2008	2010 World Cup Qualifier	Bayamon	Puerto Rico	Honduras

[edit] Current squad

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Michael Behonick 3-Jan-81(27) Puerto Rico Islanders GK Javier Moya University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras GK Alessandro Salvatore Lynn University GK Josh Saunders 2-Mar-81(27) 2 0 Miami FC GK Terry Boss Charlotte Eagles DF Taylor Graham 3-Jun-80(28) 3 1 Seattle Sounders DF Richard Martinez 4 Hofstra University DF Alexis Rivera Curet 29-Oct-82(25) Puerto Rico Islanders DF Marco Vélez 26-Jun-80(27) 4 0 Toronto FC DF Christopher Gores 23-Sep-77(29) Team Wellington DF Jason Hernández 26-Aug-83(24) 1 0 San Jose Earthquakes DF Orlando Pérez 12-Jul-77(30) Unattached DF Rafael Ortiz Huertas Puerto Rico Islanders MF Petter Villegas 15-Nov-75(32) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders MF Noah Delgado 30-Dec-79(28) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders MF Antonio Pacheco Robert Morris College MF Andrés Cabrero 4-Jan-89(19) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders FW Kupono Low 27-Dec-78(29) 3 1 Carolina RailHawks FW Gadiel Figueroa Stony Brook University FW José García Yakima Reds FW Chris Megaloudis 4-May-84(23) 4 1 New York Red Bulls FW Roger Espinoza 25-Oct-86 (21) Kansas City Wizards FW Joshua Villalobos Atlanta Silverbacks FW Carlos Astondoa Fraigcomar FW Eloy Matos 10-Apr-85(22) Colorado Rapids Reserve Team FW Dimitris Colon SV Fellbach

GK Luis Robles Kaiserslautern (Germany)

MF Miguel Guante Portland Timbers USL (USA)

[edit] 2010 World Cup Qualifier Squad

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Terry Boss 1 0 Charlotte Eagles 7 MF Danny Irizarry Ohio State University 15 DF Anthony Vazquez St. Johns University 18 GK Gabriel E. Gonzalez 30-Dec-86(21) Salem State College 3 DF Christopher Gores 23-Sep-77(29) 4 Team Wellington 6 DF Alexis Rivera Curet 29-October-82(25) 4 Puerto Rico Islanders 4 DF Marco Vélez 26-Jun-80(27) 4 Toronto FC 8 DF Rafael Ortiz Huertas 30-November-75(32) Puerto Rico Islanders 2 MF Kevin Muller Stony Brook University 16 MF Richard Martinez 4 Hofstra University 14 MF Carlos Torres Puerto Rico Islanders 10 MF Petter Villegas 15-November-75(32) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders 5 MF Noah Delgado 30-December-79(28) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders 19 MF Gadiel Figueroa 1 Stony Brook University 17 MF Andrés Cabrero 4-January-89(19) 4 1 Puerto Rico Islanders 11 FW Eloy Matos 10-Apr-85(22) Colorado Rapids Reserve Team 12 FW Carlos Astondoa Fraigcomar 9 FW Chris Megaloudis 4-May-84(23) 4 1 New York Red Bulls GK Luis Robles MF Miguel Guante 4 1 Portland Timbers DF Jason Hernandez San Jose Earthquakes

[edit] References

1. ^ Lewis, Michael. "Now You See Him", Soccer Digest, February 2001. Retrieved on 2007-12-10. 
2. ^ Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol

[edit] External links

• Puerto Rican FA
• Puerto Rico - List of International Matches
• - Puerto Rico FIFA

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