by Rod Hughes
A gripping three-way battle in GT-1 class had the crowd at La Guacima on its feet yesterday as the Mustang of Ernesto Rodriguez took the checkered flag ahead of the Toyota Supra of Javier Quiros with Luis R. Mendez’s Ford breathing on the heels of the leadeers.
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by Rod Hughes
Hernan Medford was fired as head coach of Costa Rica’s national soccer team and Costa Rican Rodrigo Kenton appears the favorite to succeed him, lacking only an official announcement. Medford’s departure Friday came as no surprise after a long string of matches in which the best the national […]
by Rod Hughes
Eduardo Li, head of FEDEFUT, the country’s soccer federation, can file away his signed resignation in his desk drawer, still undated, at least for a month or two. He threatened to step down if the Costa Rican national team did not win last Saturday, but it did by […]
by Rod Hughes
Perhaps it was because of disgust at the Costa Rica national soccer team’s miserable showing against Granada last Saturday in St. George, but we neglected to give you the results of Sunday’s matches in the CONCACAF eliminations leading to slots in the World Cup. Costa Rica plays again […]
by Rod Hughes
Saprissa, which placed second in the CONCACAF cup earlier this year, will go up against the best soccer clubs in the region. As national champion, Saprissa qualified for the newly named “Champion’s League of CONCACAF,” but drew the toughest clubs in the Central American-Caribbean area, champs of their […]
by Rod Hughes
If Costa Rica’s national soccer team keeps this up, the only way they will see the World Cup is as paying spectators in the stands. Saturday, the beloved “Sele,” as the All Stars are known hereabouts, struggled to a hard-fought, come-from-behind tie with Granada in their first qualifying […]
by Rod Hughes
An estimated 10 to 12 Costa Rican athletes will likely compete in Beijing’s Olympic Games in August, according to reporter Leslie Friday of Central America’s leading English language publication, The Tico Times. Now that ex-chairman Jorge Nery Carvajal has stepped down from the National Olympic Committee after months […]
by Rod Hughes
Die hard soccer fans need not have withdrawal pangs now that the First Division national champion (Saprissa) has been crowned. Yesterday, the Saprissa Cup international soccer tourney for players under 20 years of age began here.
Yesterday, the Universidad Catolica of Chile beat Victoria […]
by Rod Hughes
Already leading the two game series on goals, thanks to their 1-0 win at Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, the big purple “S” won it all in Alajuela’s Morera Soto Stadium Sunday. Michael Barrantes salted down Saprissa’s advantage late in the second half of a fast moving soccer match that […]
by Rod Hughes
We´ll put you out of your misery of suspense quickly. Yesterday’s soccer match between Saprissa and Alajuela to decide the national championship for this season fell victim to the same long, constant rains that turned the village of Parrita into an expensive river yesterday.
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