“Costa Rica has world-class players”: New Zealand coach

The New Zealand coach, Danny Hay, gave the first impressions of a determined fight that will bring joy to one of the two teams at the World Cup in Costa Rica and Qatar.

Precisely, the strategist of all whites, realizing that dropping the tricolor flag is not easy, will soon begin the analysis for the playoffs in a single match on June 14 in Doha, Qatar.

New Zealand has played two World Cups in its history. He was baptized in Spain in 1982 and then participated in 2010 in South Africa.

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Although they did not exit the group stage in South Africa, they drew all three games, including one against defending champions Italy, the last to go out in brackets.

The New Zealand players lost both the playoffs in Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018. In the first case, the executor, Mexico, left them on the road in Peru four years ago.

The Kiwis get a comfortable win in the Oceania tie against Papua New Guinea (1-0), Fiji (4-0), New Caledonia (7-1) and Tahiti (1-0) and the Solomon Islands. (5-0)

Coach Danny Havin’s team is made up of only eight players who have played in the local league, with most of the players playing outside their home country.

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The Legionnaires include Newcastle in the Premier League’s Chris Wood of United, Matt Corbett of Torino and Librado Caucasus of Emboli.

The remaining players are distributed to lower divisions and English teams from places like Scotland, Turkey and MLS.

The winner of the match between the Costa Ricans and New Zealand will advance to Group E of the World Cup, which already includes Spain, Germany and Japan.

Reports

Danny Hay

Technician New Zealand

They have world-class players and people know it. They began to raise their position at the end of the tie. It will be very difficult, but we think we are in a good place, we will focus on ourselves but analyze them in depth at the right time, but now we can breathe and celebrate that we won the match, and then focus on that playoff game.

We still have 90 minutes to qualify for the World Cup, which is very exciting for the country.

We have players who have faced Mexico, and from Concacaf it was the toughest challenge in the two-way battle.

We are not going to underestimate Costa Rica, we know they are of excellent quality, but this is a different team, a young team, but with a lot of experience in the basics.

It’s hard to know how it will turn out, but we saw the progress they made during the equation, with very strong results with the best players at all levels. We will face a different game than we are used to.

The technique they possess will be features we should be wary of, but we are ready for this challenge, which will be an exciting game.