On June 13 or 14, the Costa Rican national team officially became Concacaf representatives, playing a playoff to reach Qatar 2022 with New Zealand (Oceania). It was decided this Wednesday by the ‘Dicos’ victory (2-0) against the United States thanks to goals from Juan Pablo Vargas and Anthony Contreras.
With this result on the last day of the octagonal Concacaf, the United States (25 points) has qualified directly for the World Cup along with three other Concacaf teams, Canada (28) and Mexico (28), while Costa Rica (25) finished. The fourth box to reach the playoffs.
Costa Rica, undefeated at home to the United States in history, still had a mathematical chance of winning a direct ticket to the World Cup in Qatar, but had to deliver a historic 6-0 win to knock the Americans out of third place. .
Costa Rica’s coach, Colombian Luis Fernando Suarez, has booked 8 footballers and if they get another, they will miss the play-off game against New Zealand, including defender Francisco Calvo, midfielders Brian Ruiz and Celso Borges and attacker. Joel Campbell is the backbone of the team.
Costa Rica’s DD is already thinking about New Zealand
Luis Suarez praised New Zealand’s character and assured that the single-game playoff will be very tough and should be well prepared.
“They are very tough opponents, complicated, they are a good team. He is very powerful, tall, plays well and we have to prepare well to qualify for the World Cup.”, he revealed.
Suarez leads Costa Rica “He has very interesting players.” And that “Enough to dream”.
With information from EFE.
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