Qualifying Tournament (Central American Games)
NB: Juegos Centroamericanos;
for U-21 teams, in Ciudad de Guatemala
24-11-73 El Salvador 1-0 Costa Rica
25-11-73 Nicaragua 1-0 Guatemala
26-11-73 Panama 2-0 Costa Rica
26-11-73 Guatemala 3-0 El Salvador
28-11-73 Nicaragua 1-1 El Salvador
28-11-77 Panama 1-0 Guatemala
30-11-73 Panama 0-0 El Salvador
30-11-73 Nicaragua 3-2 Costa Rica
2-12-73 Panama 2-0 Nicaragua
2-12-73 Guatemala 1-1 Costa Rica
Table:
1.PANAMA 4 3 1 0 5- 0 7 Gold Medal
2.Nicaragua 4 2 1 1 5- 5 5 Silver Medal
3.El Salvador 4 1 2 1 2- 4 4 Bronze Medal
4.Guatemala 4 1 1 2 4- 3 3
5.Costa Rica 4 0 1 3 3- 7 1
NB: Panama and Nicaragua qualified for Central American and Caribbean Games
Topscorers:
3 Bayardo Barrera (Nicaragua), Jaime Hughes (Panama)
Final Tournament
Played Feb 28-Mar 12, 1974 in the Dominican Republic
First Stage
Group A
28- 2 Nicaragua 2-1 Puerto Rico [Santo Domingo]
[Manuel Cuadra 5, Víctor Manuel Granja 50; Luis Vega 47]
Cuba 2-0 Barbados [San Cristóbal]
[Dagoberto Lara 47, José Luis Elejalde 52]
2- 3 Barbados 2-0 Puerto Rico [Santo Domingo]
[Victor Clarke 30, George Prescott 69]
Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 Nicaragua [Santo Domingo]
[Noel Llewelyn 44, 66, Raymond Roberts 55]
4- 3 Cuba 8-0 Puerto Rico [Santo Domingo]
[Francisco Piedra 5, 48, 63, Andrés Roldán 18, 29, 69, Francisco Fariñas 56, 81]
Trinidad and Tobago 1-0 Barbados [Santo Domingo] [annulled]
[Noel Llewelyn 5]
6- 3 Barbados 1-0 Nicaragua [San Cristóbal]
[Victor Goddard 25]
Cuba 1-0 Trinidad and Tobago [Santo Domingo]
[Francisco Fariñas 33]
8- 3 Cuba 5-0 Nicaragua [Santo Domingo]
[Roberto Pereira 5, Luis Hernández 20, Francisco Piedra 40, 43, 70]
Trinidad and Tobago 4-0 Puerto Rico [Santo Domingo]
[Noel Llewelyn 18, 40, 69, Selwyn Murren 56]
1.CUBA 4 4 0 0 16- 0 8
2.TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 3 2 0 1 7- 1 4
3.Barbados 3 2 0 1 3- 2 4
4.Nicaragua 4 1 0 3 2-10 2
5.Puerto Rico 4 0 0 4 1-16 0
NB: Does not include the annulled result between Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados.
Trinidad and Tobago qualified on better goal difference.
Group B
28- 2 Dominican Republic 2-3 Bermuda [Santo Domingo]
[Dámaso García 38, Ramón Díaz 69; Ralph Bean 2, 89, Winston Trott 55]
Mexico - Panama [Santo Domingo] [postponed by storm]
2- 3 Bermuda 1-0 Panama [Santo Domingo]
[Ralph Bean 61]
Dominican Republic 2-0 Bahamas [San Cristóbal]
[Francisco Ramírez 70, Ramón Díaz 80]
3- 3 Mexico 1-0 Panama [Santo Domingo]
[Bardomiano Viveros 55pen]
4- 3 Bahamas 1-0 Panama [Santo Domingo]
[Luis Reynoso 70]
Mexico 1-1 Bermuda [San Cristóbal]
[Bardomiano Viveros 75; Ralph Bean 42]
6- 3 Dominican Republic 1-3 Panama [Santo Domingo]
[Francisco Ramírez 46; Simeón Escobar 45, 50, Rafael Torres 85pen]
Mexico 3-0 Bahamas [Santo Domingo]
[Víctor Rangel 10, Oscar Padilla 25, Daniel Báez 56]
8- 3 Bermuda 3-0 Bahamas [San Cristóbal]
[Ralph Bean 17, 65, 88]
Dominican Republic 0-1 Mexico [Santo Domingo]
[José Luis Caballero 86]
1.MEXICO 4 3 1 0 6- 1 7
2.BERMUDA 4 3 1 0 8- 3 7
3.Panama 4 1 0 3 3- 4 2
4.Dominican Republic 4 1 0 3 5- 7 2
5.Bahamas 4 0 1 3 1- 8 1
NB: Mexico won the group by lot.
Final Stage
Semifinals
10- 3 Cuba 2-0 Bermuda [Santo Domingo]
[Orestes Pérez 6, Francisco Piedra 28]
Mexico 1-2 Trinidad and Tobago [Santo Domingo]
[José Luis Caballero 87; Ulric Haynes 76, Godfrey Harris 85]
Third Place Match
12- 3 Mexico 0-3 Bermuda [Santo Domingo]
[Anthony Dill 11, Ralph Bean 85, 88]
Final
12- 3 Cuba 1-1 Trinidad and Tobago [aet; 3-0pen] [Santo Domingo]
[Regino Delgado 100; Peter Mitchell 107]
MEDALS:
GOLD : Cuba
SILVER: Trinidad and Tobago
BRONZE: Bermuda
Thanks to Neil Morrison, Aleks Priadko, Naufaldi Pratama, Nino Mangravita, Adán De Gracia, Mario Lara and Francisco Vrolijk
Prepared and maintained by Erik Garin, Erik Francisco Lugo and Eduardo Mendoza for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Authors: Erik Garin, Erik Francisco Lugo
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Last updated: 2 Jun 2022
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