The wrongly called Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador during July 1969, has complicated origins that go beyond a simple out-of-hand sports passion. The term, Soccer War was coined by the media, as a product of the mistaken notion that both nations had crossed sabers after their national soccer teams faced each other during a series of soccer games. That term and the notion in general, could not be more far removed from the truth than they already are. It has also been said that the Salvadoran invasion of Honduras was the product of an untenable demographic explosion that was drowning the smallest of the Central American countries. Both notions are false, repeated over and over by different historical sources, and they only serve to denigrate the inhabitants of the two countries involved in these armed confrontations who, far from being moved by simple worldly passions, a supposed blood lust or an insensate love for war, ended up facing each other due to serious and basically economic reasons.