While El Salvador’s men’s national soccer team continue to produce poor results on the field and make poor decisions off it, the women’s program has quietly become the best team in the country. So the LMC speaks with Nelson Rauda, the editor for El Faro, about the continued growth challenges, and development of women’s futbol in El Salvador.
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June 23rd, 2023: El Salvador’s Match Fixing Scandal
Ten years after a match fixing scandal rocked El Salvador’s national soccer team, the LMC speaks with El Faro reporter Nelson Rauda on how institutional corruption went beyond the individual players and into the highest levels of El Salvador’s futbol structure.
November 26th, 2021: El Salvador’s Futbol Diaspora
As Salvadorans continue to migrate to find a better life, many pro soccer players of Salvadoran descent have returned to El Salvador to reshape the country’s national team. So the LMC speaks with El Faro reporter Nelson Rauda about how futbol ties the Salvadoran diaspora together when migration often tears them apart.
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