by Rod Hughes
Head coach Hernan Medford’s job is still safe—for now—despite an 11-game losing streak. The most recent defeat for Costa Rica’s national team came Wednesday in an exhibition game in South America, losing to Peru 3-1. (Fortunately, the match was not aired on TV here because of technical difficulties […]
by Rod Hughes
Does anyone remember the controversy late last year that hit the National Olympics Committee, with charges flying against its chairman, Jorge Nery Carvajal? Well, the committee’s special assembly used a new broom and swept him out, along with other top officials yesterday as the Pekin Olympics looms on […]
by Rod Hughes
Why women’s beach volleyball is not a major sport like soccer, basketball, American football and baseball, is a mystery to us. You have four toasted, athletic young women bouncing on the sand dressed in the legal minimum. Yet, few fans sit in the stands, mostly young men […]
by Rod Hughes
Puntarenas fans yesterday must have thought the soccer match with San Carlos lasted about an hour too long. It took half an hour for the “Bulls of the North.” as the San Carlos club is called, to realize it was up against an opponent without spirit or a […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s reigning soccer champion, Saprissa, rudely hosted a decidedly outclassed Atlante club last night in the CONCACAF regional tournament for clubs. Saprissa had expected the visiting Mexican club to be highly motivated after tying tough a Toluca side last Sunday.
Instead, Saprissa walked […]
by Rod Hughes
Well, anything can happen in soccer. Yesterday, cellar-dweller Cartago rose up and smote San Carlos, 1-0, to pull itself laboriously within two points of an equally struggling University of Costa Rica in the sweepstakes of which team will wind up being banished to the wilderness of the […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rican sprinter Nery Brenes finished just out of the money at the World Indoor competition in Valencia, Spain, last weekend, an impressive fourth in the 400-meter. His time was 46.65 seconds, two laps around the 200-meter oval.
This was the best performance of […]
by Rod Hughes
Heredia, ambitiously nicknamed “the Team” in Spanish (where the word is a foreign one), seemed somewhat schitzoid in its 2-1 soccer win over a scrappy Liberia. In the first half, “the Team” played like champs, scoring their goals with aplomb against a porous defense.
When […]
by Rod Hughes
It can only be described as a rout. Costa Rica’s women’s All Star soccer team met a female team from Augustine College of Rock Island, Illinois, in an exhibition match as a precurser to the Pekin Olympics. The match in Alajuela might be best termed an appetizer, since […]
by Rod Hughes
Referee Venicio Mena did a disservice to both Saprissa and Brujas last night when one of Saprissa’s goals was made by Alvaro Alpizar’s successful penalty kick resulting from an infraction that never occurred. It was a pity because both sides played well, especially Saprissa in the second half.
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