This Thursday, the coach, Fabián Coit Machado, revealed the official call-up of the Honduras National Team to face the two friendly matches of this March FIFA date against Belarus and Greece.
The Bicolor will be concentrating from this Sunday night with local field players to make the trip to Europe on Monday. They will arrive in the city of Minsk, Belarus to concentrate and meet there with MLS and European legionaries.
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Among the novelties of this call are the names of Jerry Bengtson, Deybi Flors and Maylor Núñez; Olimpia footballers returning to the Bicolor after the good times they are having under the command of Argentine Pedro Troglio.
In the case of Jerry Bengtson, his last call to the Bicolor was for the friendly in November 2018 where Honduras faced a visit to Chile and was led by coach Jorge Jimenez. The meringue scorer has been called up for the first time to the combined in the process of the Uruguayan Coit.
The helmsman explained that he could rotate the goalkeepers, give them a match each. He also explained that the National Club of Madeira of Portugal, was protected in a FIFA article not to lend to the forward Bryan Róchez, same situation happened with Romell Kyoto of the Montreal Impact.
Honduras will be playing on Wednesday, March 24 against Belarus at the Torpedo Stadium in the city of Zhodino at 11:00 am (Honduras time). Three days later he will travel to the Mediterranean to face Greece on Sunday 28 at 9.00 am at the “La Tomba” stadium in Thessaloniki.
The coach of the catracho team, Fabián Coit, speaks at a press conference, via Zoom from Guadalajara, Mexico, where he is focused on the Under-23 that will play the Pre-Olympic, that these matches will be vital to observe the strength of the group that will be vying for the playoffs this year.
The Honduran team will make its debut in the qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar until September this year, as it is classified in the octagonal final where they are already, Mexico, United States, Costa Rica and Jamaica. In these dates of March and June the repechajes will be disputed to know the three countries that will complete the final phase.
OFFICIAL CALL
PORTERS
1. Edrick Menjivar (Olympia)
2. Luis López (Real Spain)
DEFENSES
3. Marcelo Pereira (Motagua)
4. Jonathan Pau (Olympia)
5. Maynor Figueroa (Dynamo, MLS)
6. Jhony Leverón (Olimpia)
7. Kevin Alvarez (Norrkoping, SUE)
8. Maylor Nuñez (Olimpia)
9. Diego Rodriguez (Motagua)
10. Franklin Flores (Real España)
STEERING WHEELS
11. Deybi Flors (Olimpia)
12. Bryan Acosta (FC Dallas, MLS)
13. Alfredo Mejía (Levadiakos, GRE)
14. Alex López (Alajuelense, CR)
15. Alberth Elis (Boavista, POR)
16. Kevin López (Motagua)
17. Jonathan Rubio (Chaves, PER)
18. Walter Martínez (Motagua)
19. Bryan Moya (August 1, ANG)
FRONT
20. Jerry Bengtson (Olympic Games)
21. Jorge Benguché (Boavista, POR)
22. Jhow Benavídez (Real Spain)