Football war

 Honduras and El Salvador went to war because of soccer or football.

If you look at the counties, Honduras is bigger than El Salvador, but El Salvador had 3,7million people compared to Honduras's 2.6million.

But El Salvadoran farmers had not enough land to work on and went from El Salvador to Honduras for more land, by the 1960s 300,000 immigrants went to Honduras.

In Honduras in 1963 and Oswaldo Lopez Arellano did a military coup to prevent the rise of communism, and is now the military leader of Honduras, once Oswaldo got the job of president he began harassing the farmers and other less rich groups, but he that his leadership was not legitimate enough so he did an election and won, then the opposing party says that it was faked and also their economy was in ruins.

Oswaldo blamed the Salvadorans for stealing land and ruining Honduras, and the Honduran government started evicting Salvadoran immigrants.

And Salvador could not take the immigrants coming back to El Salvador, as the tension started rising then FOOTBALL happened.

The 1970 World Cup Qualifiers and both countries finished top of their brackets.

It was time to play against each other in qualifying matches, 1. 8th June 1969 2. 15th June 1969

3. 26th June 1969.

The first match was in Honduras and the night before the game Honduras citizens went in front of the Salvadoran hotel that the football team was staying at and made loud noises to keep the Salvadoran players up. and Honduras won the match against the sleep and tired Salvadoran players, after the match a young Salvadoran fan named Amela Bolanos could not cope with the fact that her country lost in football and shot herself. The Salvadoran government glorified Amelia and made her a National Hero.

The next match was in El Salvador, the Hondurans had a sleepless night at the hotel because they played the UNO REVERSE CARD and made a ruckus, instead of the Honduran flag they hoised a white cloth sheet. Team Honduras lost and went home in a bulletproof bus with rocks being thrown at them.

Since the defeat Hondurans have terrorized the El Salvadoran players because the Salvadorans won 0 - 3.

The final game in Mexico would decide who would go to the world cup, it was 2 - 2 until El Salvador won the Mexico game 2 - 3. 

Attacks on Salvadoran immigrants increased.

El Salvador had enough and declared war.

The football or soccer war is also known as the 100 hours war because that's how long it lasted one of the shortest (thankfully) wars in history.

El Salvador started by carrying out air raids on specific places in Honduras, like the Toncotin International airport so that Honduras would not take planes, then El Salvador took their higher population the military on two roads with light tanks and infantry, El Salvador almost go the capital and that's when the US said. "hey can you stop fighting" then El Salvador said "unless they stop being jerks" so the war went on.

Honduras finally got into the sky and with aid from Nicaragua, they carried out air raids on Salvadoran ports and air bases.

They were in a stalemate when the US said "ok we will help you get the immigrants back to El Salvador safely then the US said "withdraw your troops" El Salvador  "said no", the US said "do it or we will sanction you (and we know what happens if that happens) then El Salvador said "ok".

Both Economies were destroyed, and El Salvador lost every match in the world cup so and no one won.