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can't fault the CR coach. that was embarrassing to watch

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Voted San Jose's #1 Maripepino

If the shoe was on the other foot, what do you think would happen?? I guess the US would complain too, to be fair and honest.

The refs tried to call the game but the CR players wanted to play on. They stopped the game and the CR players were the ones arguing with the refs. So now they lost and they protest.

Another take here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/commentary ... --mls.html

Both of the above posts with links from yahoo sports were very interesting if you are interested.

I have never kicked a soccer ball and don't understand the finer nuances of the game, twasn't popular in the US when I was a park rat. But as a result of my exposure to it in CR, I'll watch the World Cup quarter to semi and finals every four years, and of course the rare CR v US.

But, I wondered afterwards why they scheduled a soccer match at the foot of the Rockies in early spring. Got the answer from the first link above:

"Gulati (Head of US Soccer Federation) said the decision to play in Denver in March had not been based on any desire to have difficult wintry conditions for Central American opponents (duh, but you knew when you planned it that it was going to be early spring in the Rockies, right?), but was mainly due to the desire to spend a week at altitude before a game in Mexico City on Tuesday." (Which is from what I've read elsewhere was one of the reasons they didn't cancel the game--they both had games set Tuesday).

I get scheduling the high altitude game to prepare for the Mexico match--it also apparently is being played in a high altitude arena--but it backfired with the snow thing. Or maybe not?

Did you read President Chinchilla's tweet while they match was going on? Not nice for a Jesuit educated (Georgetown my alma mater) chica Catolica princessa.

Of course they were losing when she tweeted.

This snow debacle will go down as an insult no Tico of TV age will ever forget. It'll be right up there in their minds that when they get the opportuntiy they will attack like they did with William Walker, a lawyer from Tennessee, who conquered Nicaland and became its president in 1856 and instituted slavery, and then tried the same in CR. But CR resisted and stopped him at Rivas before he got to the border in 1857, and who was executed by Honduras 3 years later when he was 36. To memorialize it, the Ticos, like they did for Juan Santamaria, the name sake of CR Int'l Airport, he who led the charge against the bastard gringo Walker 156 years ago (the hatred of whom we still sometimes feel but can't figure out, especially on April 11, a national CR Holiday in Juan Santamaria's honor), CR will build a statute of the Tico who makes the winning revenge goal and it'll be mounted at the Liberia airport renamed in his honor.

The next time you are heading home via Juan Santamaria Int'l airport and see Juan's life size statute there, or at the Congress, remember he and William Walker are behind all the reasons you in anyway got screwed by a Tico. And lay low and stay out of Tico bars on every April 11th, the #1 day of the year for Tico nationalistic pride.

10 to 1 they didn't follow the challenge rules and their appeal will be denied.

ZURICH (AP) - "FIFA is studying a protest from the Costa Rica soccer federation, which wants a World Cup qualifier against the United States replayed after losing 1-0 in a snowstorm.

FIFA will now analyze the content of the letter and next steps will be determined in due course," the governing body said Monday in a statement.

The Costa Rican federation said Sunday that the "physical integrity" of players and officials was affected, "ball movement became impossible" and field markings were not visible in Friday's match played in Commerce City, Colo.

The federation also urged FIFA to punish match officials, including referee Joel Aguilar of El Salvador, for allowing the match to proceed.

For the protest to have a chance of succeeding, it must meet specific requirements stated in the 2014 World Cup Regulations.

*One clause says that when a field becomes unplayable, the protesting team's captain "shall immediately lodge a protest with the referee in the presence of the captain of the opposing team."

*Costa Rica also had to file written protests with the match coordinator within two hours of the final whistle, and to FIFA's administration by registered letter within 24 hours, "otherwise they shall be disregarded," the regulations state. FIFA had yet to determine whether Costa Rica had followed those procedures.

U.S. captain Clint Dempsey scored in the 16th minute to lift his team to second place in the six-team CONCACAF region qualifying group after two matches. Costa Rica is last.

The top three teams qualify directly for the tournament in Brazil, and the fourth-place team faces New Zealand in a playoff."

I Could not see the ball second half,though it was yellow,orange is used usually, in poor visibility condition's,for t.v....usa in a white kit did not help visually either.and the game perhaps should have been abandoned and replayed,but it wasn't and the early goal settled the game....jamaica reggae boyz are in san jose,tuesday nite and will be a difficult match-up for the tico's....all the team's are evenly matched in concaf,on the road to rio...

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Jaco is called little USA by all ticos

Got that one right.

As anticipated FIFA rejected the Costa Rica protest re: Friday's match against the United States for failing to comply with FIFA challenge regulations . From CrHoy.com:

“La FIFA ha examinado el contenido de la carta y, tomando en consideración el artículo 14, apartado 4, del Reglamento del Reglamento de la Copa del Mundo del 2014, ha confirmado que las condiciones establecidas en el reglamento de una protesta oficial no se han cumplido por Costa Rica”.

"FIFA has examined the contents of the letter and, taking into account Article 14, paragraph 4, of the Rules of the Regulations of the 2014 World Cup, has confirmed that the conditions laid down in the rules of an official protest have not been played by Costa Rica.

El paso que se brincó la FEDEFUTBOL fue que el capitán del equipo, en este caso, Bryan Ruiz, no interpuso el reclamo ante el comisionado de FIFA ni delante del capitán del equipo contrario.

The captain of the CR team, in this case, Bryan Ruiz, did not file the claim with the FIFA commissioner or before the captain of the opposing team. In addition, the formal complaint was made after two hours of time provided by the FIFA deadline.

"Therefore, the result of the match played on March 22 still stands and is considered as valid" FIFA stated.

Mui Tico?