More often than not, football can turn into banter with your friends, but a lot of times, it’s just a harmless banter...nothing more, nothing less, but that wasn’t the case in June 1969, when Honduras played against El Salvador.
This wasn’t just ANY football match. This was a game that was being played at the backdrop of SEVERE political tensions between the 2 countries, and it didn’t help that the winner would qualify to the World Cup
That being said, this football game was the last straw between the 2 nations to start a war.
But the question is...Why did this football match start a war between El Salvador and Honduras? What was going on at the time?
Well...stick around to find out how a football match started a war between El Salvador and Honduras, in what history will remember as "The Football War".
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