 The national team had accusations of several players purposely losing matches on purpose in exchange for monetary rewards . Some of these allegations involved games against Venezuela , Mexico , USA , and Costa Rica . After an investigation , 14 players were handed immediate lifetime bans from football on September 20 , 2013 . Those players were Luis Anaya , <unk> Romero , Ramón Sánchez , Christian Castillo , Miguel <unk> , Miguel Montes , <unk> Portillo , Dennis Alas , Darwin Bonilla , Ramón Flores , Alfredo Pacheco , José <unk> <unk> , Marvin González , and Reynaldo Hernández . Carlos Monteagudo received a ban of 18 months . Eliseo Quintanilla and Víctor <unk> received 6 month bans . Alexander Escobar , Christian Sánchez , and U @-@ 20 goalkeeper <unk> Cuellar received a ban of 30 days . Other players were forced to go through the investigation for 20 more days . After the 20 day investigation , Rodrigo Martínez was sentenced to a ban of 5 years , Rodolfo Zelaya to a ban of one year , and Benji Villalobos to a ban of 6 months . 
