San Carlos Beats Cartago 2-1
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 2-1. Carlos Hernandez, sports writer for La Nacion, seems to think that players do better in their first game under a new coach.
It was only 12 minutes into the match when fancy footwork by Luis Pena allowed Enoc Perez to score. Some 12 minutes later, an error by Cartago goalie Donny Grant allowed a goal by Edder Munguio for 2-1. In fact, all through the first half San Carlos played with a creativity and verve the side has not shown all season.
In the second half they forgot all they had learned in the first, but fornuately for them Cartago was soon playing with 19 men after Andreas Sanabria was sent off with too many yellow warnings. As it was, Cartago’s Minor Diaz sent a corner kick from Esteban Bolanos through the arc. After that, San Carlos fans began urging the clock to run faster.