After 1-1 with Honduras, Argentina repeated the feat in London 2012

Honduras , as four years ago in London, today repeated the feat of qualifying for the quarter-finals of Olympics after a 1-1 draw with Argentina , who needed to win to keep the square and avoid failure to return home prematurely.

The penalty kick by Anthony Lozano after 75 minutes sealed a lucky flirted with both teams, as the Hondurans could go ahead in the fourth minute attached to the first half but the goalkeeper Gerónimo Trulli amended the mistake of having committed the offense by stopping the release captain Bryan Acosta.

Mauricio Martinez equalized in the 93 to take advantage of a free kick that swerved into Honduran defenders, but the three minutes that remained the parties were already insufficient to think of the comeback.

As Honduras, Argentina were awarded a penalty 55 minutes into the Atletico Madrid player Angel Correa crashed into the base of the left vertical Honduran goalkeeper Luis Lopez .

Argentina avasallaba a rival made ​​to resist and fight back . And precisely Alberth good work down the right Elis by the central Lautaro Gianetti had no recourse but to tear it down and receive the admonition of the central referee, the Spanish Antonio Mateu Lahoz.

This time Anthony Lozano took the ball and beat Rulli to put Argentina's life upside down.

In a unforgiving heat than an hour after noon was a wind chill of 33 degrees Celsius in Brazil ia Argentines took the initiative despite the lack of precision in passing and compact lines Bicolor, which made ​​transit difficult the ball ..

Jonathan Calleri, the top scorer in the recent Copa Libertadores, struggled to impose his physical and approached with danger on three occasions, and through turns disturbed twice Correa.

Drama in Honduras, Peralta killed: "Hit by 18 bullets to the head and chest"

A tragic act of violence disrupts again the butt of Central and South America. In Honduras , the country hit by gang violence and with one of the highest murder rates in the world, was in fact murdered midfielder of the national team, Arnold Peralta .

Peralta, just 26 years, according to preliminary reports of the local police would have been achieved by a few shots of gunfire while he was near his car in the parking lot of a shopping center in La Ceiba.

The official confirmation to that effect came from the spokesman of the Ministry, Selvin Fernandez: "The death of Arnold Peralta was caused by multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest." In particular, the player would have been reached by 18 bullets of nine mm that caused a concussion opened.

The motive for the crime at the time, it is still unclear but it is ruled out completely the possibility of a robbery gone bad since Peralta was not robbed.

His murder, however, reminds ominously very closely that of the Colombian Escobar who was murdered more than twenty years ago in the parking lot of a bar because of an own goal that cost his National elimination from USA 94 '.

Arnold Peralta fact played in ' Olimpia Tegucigalpa who were eliminated last weekend from the semifinals of the Liga Nacional de Honduras, the league summit of the country, but in the past had also played for the Rangers Football Club Scotland and Club Deportivo Vida.

A real tragedy, in short, that lived Honduras with whose National Arnold Peralta also should have regularly scheduled play next week's friendly against Cuba .