Envoy says Honduras made barbaric acts.

Passions were inflamed between El Salvador and Honduras since the first game of the playoffs 1970. In the second World Cup, held in El Salvador, there was an attack on the hotel in the Honduran technical committee was staying. Just before the third game, El Salvador broke diplomatic relations with the neighboring country and 17 days after the military bombed Salvadoran border cities of Honduras, to get to Tegucigalpa.