"It is a great achievement for Curacao, but El Salvador must be amazed that they didn't qualify, as they could have afforded a narrow defeat to Honduras and still qualified, and they hadn't conceded a goal in the entire tournament until late in the game against the Catrachos and then they conceded four!<br/><br/>A very knowledgeable friend - not Robbie - has told me that the name Catrachos comes from a garbling of the name Xatruch, which was the name of two brothers who were the Honduran generals fighting the American filibuster William Walker. Strange these things you learn in bars."<br/><br/>OOC Actually on a football forum, but good, obscure information, I thought.