 The first CONCACAF Championship was hosted in 1963 and El Salvador hosted both the qualification round and final tournament . There were nine other participants , with the format the same as the final CCCF Championship . Costa Rica became the first CONCACAF champions , and El Salvador finished as runners @-@ up . In 1964 Chilean Hernán Carrasco Vivanco , who would later revolutionize Salvadoran football , became coach of the national team . He led the national team for the first time at the 1965 CONCACAF Championship , hosted in Guatemala , where they won 2 games , tied 1 game , and lost two , finishing in fourth place . In 1966 the El Salvador football team took part in the Central American and Caribbean Games for the sixth time in a competition that took place in Puerto Rico . The national team participated alongside seven other teams , finishing in fourth place . In 1968 El Salvador qualified for the Olympic Games for the first time . They lost 4 – 0 to Hungary , 3 – 1 to Israel , and tied 1 – 1 with Ghana . The coach by this time was Rigoberto Guzmán . 
