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Costa Rica during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where they achieved their best performance. This is a record of Costa Rica's results at the FIFA World Cup.The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of ...
2002 FIFA World Cup Group C. Group C of the 2002 FIFA World Cup took place between 3 and 13 June 2002. Brazil won the group, and advanced to the second round, along with Turkey. Costa Rica was level with Turkey on points, but had a worse goal difference. China finished bottom of the group, having lost all three of their matches.
At the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Brazil participated for the 17th time in the event. The country remained as the only national team to have participated in every installment of the FIFA World Cup. They are the only team to win all seven matches they played, achieving the highest number of matches won by a team in a single tournament in the history ...
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil has begun. Check HuffPost's World Cup dashboard throughout the tournament for standings, schedules, and detailed summaries of each match. World Cup 2014 - Costa Rica vs. Greece | The Huffington Post
FIFA World Cup final. Founded. 1930; 94 years ago. ( 1930) Current champions. Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team (s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global ...
In Costa Rica: Alexandre Guimarães was the country's head coach for the World Cup, as he had been in Costa Rica's previous participation, in 2002. He also played for Costa Rica in 1990. After losing all three matches, Guimarães left the national team, allegedly in the wake of death threats received via anonymous phone calls. [8]
Group D of the 2014 FIFA World Cup consisted of Uruguay, Costa Rica, England and Italy. Being the only group to contain more than one previous winner of the World Cup, it was widely considered as the ' Group of Death '. [1] It was also the only group with three top 10 FIFA World Ranking teams as of October 2013 (ranking date for final draw) and ...
The Brazil national football team played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and continued to maintained their record of being the only team to enter every World Cup Finals. The team was coached by Sebastião Lazaroni and the captain was Ricardo Gomes, a defender from Benfica. The Brazilian team used the 3-5-2 formation for the first time in its ...