Costa Rica national football team

The Costa Rican national football team, also called Los Ticos, the selection team of the Federación Costarricense de Fútbol. To date, the team of the Central American country Costa Rica has qualified for four FIFA World Cups in 1990, 2002, 2006 and 2014. In 1990, she reached in a preliminary round group second behind Brazil the knockout stages, while also resigned in 2002 in a group with Brazil in the first round in third place only on goal difference against Turkey. In 2006, she joined against hosts Germany in the opening match on June 9, 2006 in Munich, had later but after zero points from three games early on the trip home compete.

  • 2.1 World Cup
  • 2.2 CONCACAF Gold Cup
  • 2.3 Football Central America Championship 2.3.1 UNCAF Nations Cup
  • 2.3.2 Central American Cup

Participation in World Championships

World Cup 1990 in Italy

Initial qualification and greatest success. Sweden ( 2-1) and Scotland (1-0 ) were defeated in the first round and Costa Rica reached the knockout stages, there was however a 1:4 defeat against Czechoslovakia.

2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan

After the second time a qualification for the World Cup had managed the feat in 1990 could not be repeated again. In the first game you beat the single-minded, worthy opponent and World Cup newcomer China 2-0 (0-0 ), which also brought the first standings of the preliminary round group C, since Brazil the day before Turkey was defeated with 2:1. In the second game they managed to eventual third parties Turkey a well-deserved 1-1 (0-0 ). Since Brazil had yesterday, it defeated China 4-0, was needed in their final group game to secure a draw to advance. Costa Rica not tried a 0:0 and played aggressively on. The game against the eventual group winners and world champions Brazil, who was qualified at the time ahead of schedule for the knockout stages, but was lost with 2:5 (1:3). As Turkey parallel their game against China won 3-0 (2-0), Costa Rica difference due to goal difference in third place in the group C, where one could dream from progressing between the 57th and the 63rd minute. At this time they had managed to reduce to 2:3, while Turkey only led 2-0. This would have been enough to progress. However, a double whammy of Brazil makes then dashed all hopes.

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World Cup 2006 in Germany

The qualification for the 2006 World Cup went to Costa Rica overall very laborious and patchy. So you could only extremely scarce prevail against Cuba in the first round. This was followed in the second round after a start with two defeats in the group stage group winners with 10 of 18 possible points. The qualification then succeeded in the 3rd round in the group with the last remaining six teams through third place and 16 of 30 possible points.

Costa Rica played in the first game of the World Cup final, the opening match on June 9 in Munich in 2006 against the German national football team and lost the game with 2:4 (1:2). All in all, it was clearly inferior to Costa Rica, so it came as expected, in a fair game ( Fonseca with the single yellow card ) for opening defeat. Costa Rica was able to the few chances that came by partial disastrous defensive error by the German defensive about, use ( both goals by Paulo Wanchope ), found otherwise, especially in the early stages of the game, just in front of his own goal again.

Also the next group match against Ecuador was lost with 0:3 ( 0:1). Early on you had to come from behind run while your game is not unfolded. The few, but quite good scoring chances could not be used in contrast to the first game, so you lose a little high, but still earned against a strong opponent in the end. This defeat meant then already the Early World Cup from Costa Rica ( and Poland ), which now unaufholbare six points behind the runners had on Germany.

The last meaningless game against the also retired Poland went 1-2 (1-1 ) lost. In a generally balanced game you could tell the team to Costa Rica after falling behind after 65 minutes played, she was already eliminated from the tournament and thus lacked the will to turn the game again. Costa Rica dropped out after the first round in fourth place and thus group bottom of Group A with six points behind the second place qualifying for the knockout stages of the tournament (3 games, 3 losses, 3:9 Goals (-6 ), 0 points).

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World Cup 2010 in South Africa

As part of the qualification for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the team met in the second round of CONCACAF, the winner of the first round game between the U.S. Virgin Islands and Grenada. The first leg in St. George's (Grenada ) ended 2-2, the second leg was held in San Jose on June 21 and was won 3-0. Thus Costa Rica moved into the third round, the so-called semi-finals, a. Here met the team in Haiti, El Salvador and Suriname. The group was masterfully finished with 18 of a possible 18 points at No. 1. It won all the games and reached a goal difference of 20:3. The highlight was the 7-0 win against Suriname in San Jose on September 6, 2008.

On 11 February 2009 was started in the fourth and final round, where they met Honduras, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, United States and Mexico. There, Costa Rica ranked on the basis of goal difference against Honduras in fourth place and met in two relegation matches on Uruguay. In the home match Costa Rica initially lost 0-1, was able to achieve in the second leg a 1-1 and not so qualify for the World Cup.

World Cup 2014 in Brazil

On September 10, 2013, Costa Rica opponents qualified early for the 2014 World Cup. Along the way to Brazil were Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and the United States. In the group stage of the tournament meets Costa Rica in the first game to Uruguay, then to Italy and the end of the group stage for the first time in England.

Tournaments

World cup

CONCACAF Gold Cup

Football Central America Championship

Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup

Central American Cup

  • 2011 - 2nd place
  • 2013 - Winner

Copa América

Costa Rica took in 1997 for the first time as a visiting team at the Copa América in part, but retired in the first round of. Victims were then invited three more times, most recently in 2011 as a replacement for the Japanese team that had canceled after the earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Most games

(As of November 19, 2013 )

Source: Costa Rica - Record International Players (Updated: September 5, 2013)

Former national coach

  • -1990: Bora Milutinovic
  • 1990 - November 1990: Héctor Núñez
  • September 2010 - August 2011: Ricardo La Volpe
  • 2011 - Jorge Luis Pinto

International matches against German -speaking national football teams

So far there were no matches against Liechtenstein.

All Games: List of international matches of the Costa Rican national soccer team

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