by Rod Hughes
Look out, soccer clubs! Costa Rican entrepenuer and the Liberia First Division club’s owner, Nario Sotela,has his checkbook out and is shopping for players long before the final championship match. And his specific target seems to be Alajuela.
He has just signed Minor Díaz […]
by Rod Hughes
Brujas of Escazú easily rolled over the University of Costa Rica side on its way to the semifinals of the Torneo del Verano, which is the 2008 half of the 2007-8 season. Brujas has no home pitch, since Escazú has no appropriate stadium, so all their matches are […]
by Rod Hughes
Somebody should tell the Brujas soccer team that having magic is important but you’ve got to keep it up. (Brujas means “witches” in Spanish and is named after Escazu, the “city of witches” and the seat of this club’s franchise. A scrapping University of Costa Rica side gave […]
By Rod Hughes
And other soccer tales. Two Alajuela stars spilled the beans on the Channel 7 TV sports section of the news program Telenoticias: Santos paid five million colones to the Alajuela club to beat Cartago in the final game of the regular season. They did handily, 2-0. For Santos, […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican Olympic qualifier Mario Montoya from the San Jose suburb of Uruca began swimming young in order to conquer his asthma. But the treatment has led him to be only the fifth qualifier so far for the Costa Rican Olympic team
The 18-year-old […]
by Rod Hughes
Saprissa continued to find the goal area alien territory Sunday, tying San Carlos 1-1. The tie did not do either club any good: San Carlos is out of the running for the finals and Saprissa dropped from being overal leader (due to its nine-match winning streak earlier this […]
by Rod Hughes
The saga of the National Olympic Committee is a humorous microcosm of the struggle for power, no matter how limited and petty that power is, or would be if both warring factions were not taking the situation so seriously. To recapitulate this microdrama, the board of directors voted […]
by Rod Hughes
Not with a bang but with a whimper did Saprissa lose the final game of the CONCACAF regional soccer tourney final, 2-1. So it will be Pachuca of Mexico that goes to the World Tourney of Clubs and wins a cool million dollars in prize money. And Saprissa […]
by Rod Hughes
Sometimes the best soccer matches in the country are not between those perennial powerhouses, Saprissa and Alajuela, but way down in the cellar. And so it proved Sunday when Cartago met Santos on the latter’s home pitch in Guapiles and they struggled to a 1-1 tie.
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by Rod Hughes
Uh-oh, boys and girls, this does NOT look good! Saprissa, usually deadly on its own home pitch, tied 1-1 with the Mexican soccer club Pachuca Monday in Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in the first match of two to decide the CONCACAF champion,. Riding on these to matches is a […]
