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Ticos on fire

By: Hugo | June 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »


Is it me or am I seeing zebras, leopards, and elephants in Costa Rica´s horizon???

Costa Rica finished the first half of the final round qualifiers in first place with 12 points. The Ticos defeated the Soca Warriors (Trinidad & Tobago) last night 2-3 in the Caribbean island and brought home 3 points that mean lots of things. Costa Rica demonstrated that they could win as the visiting team (not only in the Saprissa stadium). T&T started winning with a free kick in the first half. In the 40th minute, Saborio tied the game wich was starting to be handled by the visiting team. In the second half, Borges scored 2 beautiful goals and that was it. Bryan Ruiz was booked and will miss the next game in Honduras.

It is extremely important to win your home games in the final round of the CONCACAF´s FIFA qualifiers, but if you also win as the visiting team, it means that you´re doing something right. Costa Rica is enjoying its first place and is now very close to the World Cup.

Now, the US stands second, followed by El Salvador (surprisingly defeated Mexico), Honduras, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago in last place.


Tags: Borges, Kenton, Road to World Cup, Saborio

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A huge step

By: Hugo | June 3rd, 2009 | 4 Comments »


Costa Rica defeated team USA once again 3-1 in a beautiful evening for football!! And it all started only a minute and a half after kickoff. Saborio broke the defense with a sharp pass from Herron and made an excellent goal from outside the box. Then came a beautiful play in ... [read]


Gearing up

By: Hugo | June 1st, 2009 | No Comments »


Ok so its FIFA qualifiers again and Costa Rica will receive team USA on Wednesday. But before I start talking about this, let me congratulate Liberia Mia on their first Championship, they beat Herediano with a 3-0 aggregate… it was about time for a ¨small¨ team to win a title.
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It will all be decided on Tuesday

By: Hugo | May 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Liberia Mia and Club Sport Herediano played today the first leg of the finals. The game took place in Liberia, Guanacaste and ended with a tie (0-0). Heredia had lots of opportunities to score but Andy Herron (Heredia´s striker) was not very tight today. The game was pretty even, in the first half Liberia Mia had more ball ... [read]


A regular outcome

By: Hugo | April 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments »


Hey I´m sorry I haven´t been able to write some posts about the last game against El Salvador, I have been very busy with some courses… plus I just got home from visiting Puerto Viejo, it is located in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Its awesome, its very relaxing as you ... [read]


No AZTECAZO

By: Hugo | March 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments »


Mexico defeated Costa Rica last Saturday in Mexico DF. Mexico played a regular game, but enough to beat a very shy Costarican team. The first 19 minutes of the game were dominated by the visiting team, the Ticos were handling the ball and keeping a very steady flow of the game. ... [read]


Hoping for another AZTECAZO

By: Hugo | March 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments »


Costa Rica is now 5 days away from playing against CONCACAF´s ex-giant: Mexico; at the impressive Estado Azteca. Who said this would be easy??? Playing in this scenario is very tough, specially when the stadium is supposed to be packed with more than 80000 fans, plus the high altitude and ... [read]


CONCACAF U-20 Champs!

By: Hugo | March 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment »


On march 15th Costa Rica´s U-20 squad became the new CONCACAF Champions by defeating team USA in the finals 3-0. Now the U-20 World Cup in Egypt awaits the Ticos!! Congratulations guys!!!
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Natural or artificial turf?

By: Hugo | March 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »


Nowadays many local teams are planning to change their natural grass for an artificial turf. There are many pros and cons on this subject. As you might know, living in the tropic is very nice, but you get heavy rain in the winter, so the grass gets really mushy and slippery. And ... [read]


Beautiful Start

By: Hugo | February 12th, 2009 | 5 Comments »


Costa Rica defeated Honduras last night in San Jose 2-0. What a game!!! There was so much expectation and fuss around this match. Honduran press talked so much crap about their squad.. I have to admit something… Honduras has great players but as I said in my last post, they dont play ... [read]



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