Archive for the ‘Road to World Cup’ Category


Winning is a must

September 3rd, 2009 | By: Hugo | 3 Comments »

Costa Rica is two days away from one of the most expected games in the final qualifying round: against Mexico. After being totally ripped into pieces in San Pedro Sula, now is the time for the Ticos to rise and shine! The Saprissa stadium will host the most crucial match in CONCACAF this weekend and [...]

It´s the final countdown!

August 10th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 1 Comment »

Costa Rica will be playing in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Wednesday night. Watch a match!! The two best teams in Central America will be facing once again. The Ticos defeated the Catrachos in February 2-0 in San Jose and now it is time for Honduras to be the local team and take advantage of [...]

Ticos on fire

June 7th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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 [...]

A huge step

June 3rd, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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 the left side [...]

A regular outcome

April 8th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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 can see in [...]

No AZTECAZO

March 30th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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. But then, thanks [...]

Hoping for another AZTECAZO

March 24th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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 pollution.
The Mexican [...]

Beautiful Start

February 12th, 2009 | By: Hugo | 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 as a team. [...]

Donovan feels the pain in Costa Rica

January 9th, 2009 | By: Hugo | No Comments »

According to local media, Landon Donovan recently made some interesting comments to CONCACAF press on Costa Rica´s home stadium for the upcoming FIFA qualifiers. ¨I´ve never took part in any game, anywhere in the world, where you can feel so much passion and pressure¨, said Donovan. ¨You can feel the stadium shake when you´re [...]


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