Archive for the 'Sports (soccer mostly)' Category

San Carlos Beats Cartago 2-1

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Holy Steinbrenner! Do you suppose that changing the field marshal of a sports club really helps a team? Maybe so…
San Carlos, playing on their home grass in Ciudad Quesada and sporting a new head coach, Juan Carlos Arguedas, dumped a lackluster Cartago yesterday […]

Saprissa Moves On, Puntarenas Out

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Note: We would like to apologize for the tardiness of this report, written much earlier but delayed by technical problems.
by Rod Hughes
Puntarenas fans are grieving because they thought their soccer team could. Coming fresh from a good shellacking of Saprissa in Costa Rica’s first Division Sunday, they were […]

Alajuela Gets Past Real España

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
So half of the UNCAF soccer tournament semifinals will be fought out on Costa Rican soil, since Alajuela got by Real España of Honduras on goal kicks, 5-4 after ending regulations play in a 2-2 tie. The first semifinal game will be in Tibas’s Ricardo Saprissa Stadium Oct. 23, […]