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Football War

Popular name for a five-day war between El Salvador and Honduras which began on 14 July 1969, when Salvadorean planes bombed Tegucigelpa. Its army entered Honduras, but the Organization of American States arranged a ceasefire, by which time about 2,000 lives had been lost.

The war is so called because of the mistaken belief that it followed a dispute after a World Cup qualifying match between the two countries. In fact, it arose because of densely populated El Salvador's desire for Honduran territory.
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He covered the Global South with both sympathy and depth, ranging from the tragically ludicrous soccer war between El Salvador and Honduras, to the last days of Ethiopia's final monarch in what is probably his best work, The Emperor.
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This quality made international bestsellers of his books, starting with The Emperor and The Soccer War (1978)--translated into 30 languages--and subsequent books such as The Shah of Shahs (1982) and The Shadow of the Sun (1998).
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As I watched other students throw down their pencils and give up, I reached back to high school classes taught by Robert Veeke, Ron Lancaster and Howard Yank and was able to press on, identifying the participants in the Soccer War, the rivers of Central Africa and the island nations of the Pacific.
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