The Football war (Weird Wars)

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Published 2018-06-25
The Football War was a four day conflict between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.

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Christian H. Miles


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All Comments (21)
  • @SpeedyWings2323
    My great grandmother was an immigrant that went to Honduras to find work and after the war erupted she was among the huge wave of Salvadorans returning to El Salvador. She survived this war and the Salvadoran Civil War and has passed away yesterday September 7th 2020 due to the Coronavirus here in Texas. Her memory will always live on. Adios Abuelita 💕
  • @kennooo535
    Honduran: *tosses grenade in an el salvadorian MG nest Goal!
  • @Mistyf1
    “Hey! That’s a penalty!!” “No it’s not you imbecile” *Reloads rifle* “I said that’s a penalty!” *Also reloads rifle* And so it begins...
  • @dominicfay4165
    Fun fact: this was the last war piston powered aircraft fought piston powered aircraft.
  • @Simplehistory
    A highly requested video! Did you know the Football or Soccer war would be the last time in history that propeller fighter planes would fight in the skies. What weird wars do you want to see next?
  • @someguy3766
    2:50 "and murder became an everyday occurance" - you realise this is Honduras, right?
  • @malakai.2025
    Anybody else still waiting on that Emu war video? Edit: emu war not ostrich war
  • @KaiserWilbur
    El Salvador & Honduras: Fighting a brutal war Nicaragua: 🍿😎
  • I'm from El Salvador 🇸🇻 and I think you did a great job explaining this conflict as it. Actually a lot of people think this war began only because the football game and they don't know the rest of the history. Congrats!
  • @OMGITSAAAJ
    My grandpa is El Salvador, and my dad is Hondurian, my dad was about 6-7 years old when this war broke out, he remembers it vividly. That was the day my grandpa fought for his life with a machete, he fled to El Salvador bleeding, he barely made it alive. It would be another 8-10 years before my dad saw his dad again. What people don't realize, is that before the war people of El Salvador and Honduras lived side by side in Honduras, worked together, played with each other, married each other. This was a gruesome war that turned families/ neighbor's on each other. Thank you for this video, your highlights were right on point.