Soccer War

The so called Soccer or Football War was a six-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras during 1969. Though tensions between the two nations may have been somewhat elevated by a football competition, the war was primarily caused by political differences between Hondurans and Salvadorans, including immigration from El Salvador to Honduras during the Salvadoran civil war. The name is derived from the timing of the war, which overlapped with rioting from a series of soccer matches.