2012 El Salvador national football team season explained

Season:	2012
Manager:	Agustín Castillo
Captain:	Dennis Alas
Home Stadium:	Estadio Cuscatlán
Wins:	2
Losses:	4
Matches Played:	8
Total Goals:	9
Top Goalscorer:	Nelson Bonilla (2) Isidro Gutiérrez (2)
Most Caps:	Dennis Alas (8) Eliseo Quintanilla (8) Ramón Sánchez (8)
Players:	28
Goalscorers:	6
Debutants:	7
Biggest Home Win:	2–0 v Moldova (May 26, 2012)
Highest Scoring:	2–2 v New Zealand (May 23, 2012) 2–2 v Costa Rica (June 8, 2012)
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Prevseason:	2011
Nextseason:	2013

The 2012 season is the 91st season in El Salvador's history, their 74th in FIFA and 50th in CONCACAF. As of December 2012, the team was managed by Agustín Castillo. In mid-June, Rubén Israel quit due to financial problems between him and the Federation. FESFUT then hired a new coach 14 July 2012. The new DT, Juan de Dios Castillo, would coach until the end of the 2013 after the 2013 Copa Centroamericana and 2013 Gold Cup. Although, the elimination of La Selecta for the campaign for the 2014 World Cup led the FESFUT to fire him due to the poor result. By 18 December 2012, FESFUT had hired Agustín Castillo for the new DT. He became the first Peruvian to coach the national team.

Players

These players have been capped during the 2012 season (listed alphabetically):
name (games played)

Debutants

Eldel Figueroa – On February 29, started in a friendly math against Estonia
Alexander Méndoza – On February 29, came on as a substitute in a friendly match against Estonia
Nelson Bonilla – On May 23, started in a friendly match against New Zealand
Ricardo Ulloa – On May 23, came on as a substitute in a friendly match against New Zealand
Darwin Cerén – on May 23, came on as a substitute in a friendly match against New Zealand
Isidro Gutiérrez – on June 2, came on as a substitute in a friendly match against Honduras
Alexander Larín – on August 11, started in a friendly math against Guatemala

Player statistics

Goal scorers

Rank	Player	Goals
1	Nelson Bonilla	2
1	Isidro Gutiérrez	2
3	Rafael Burgos	1
	Jaime Alas	1
	Osael Romero	1
	Alfredo Pacheco	1

Goal assists

Rank	Player	Assists
1	Rafael Burgos	2
2	Alfredo Pacheco	1

Bookings

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1	Dennis Alas	3	0	0
2	Xavier García	2	0	0
2	Alfredo Pacheco	2	0	0
4	Víctor Turcios	1	0	0
	Steve Purdy	1	0	0
	Benji Villalobos	1	0	0
	Ramón Sánchez	1	0	0

Competitions

Overall

Competition	wiBAN=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20 style="border-right:3px solid gray;"	Started Round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
International Friendlies	6	2	1	3	5	9	-4	7	—	—	February 29, 2012	—
Unofficial Friendly	1	0	0	1	1	2	-1	0	—	—	July 27, 2012	—
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification	6	1	2	3	11	8	0	5	second round	third round	June 8, 2012	October 16, 2012

Results summary

2014 World Cup qualifiers

See main article: 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF third round and 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Third round

Ranking

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "2012 El Salvador national football team season".

Date	FIFA ranking position	Total Points	+/- Ranking	+/- Points
December 2012	103	348	-9	54
November 2012	94	402	-16	-39
October 2012	78	441	-11	-40
September 2012	67	481	-3	-8
August 2012	64	490	3	3
July 2012	67	487	-12	-63
June 2012	55	550	-6	-41
May 2012	49	591	0	2
April 2012	49	589	9	35
March 2012	58	554	-4	-22
February 2012	54	576	10	70
January 2012	64	506	5	43
December 2011	69	463	0	0