Soccer World Cup 2006 / Costa Rica

This article covers the Costa Rican national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

First round

Cuba - Costa Rica

2: 2 (1: 2) / 1: 1 (1: 1)

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Costa Rica	12: 8	10
2	Guatemala	7: 9	10
3	Honduras	9: 7	7th
4th	Canada	4: 8	5

	Costa Rica - Honduras		2: 5 (2: 2)
	Guatemala - Costa Rica		2: 1 (0: 1)
	Costa Rica - Canada		1: 0 (0: 0)
	Costa Rica - Guatemala		5: 0 (2: 0)
	Canada - Costa Rica		1: 3 (1: 0)
	Honduras - Costa Rica		0-0

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	16: 6	22nd
2	Mexico	22: 9	22nd
3	Costa Rica	15:14	16
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	10:15	13
5	Guatemala	16:18	11
6th	Panama	4:21	2

	Costa Rica - Mexico		1: 2 (1: 2)
	Costa Rica - Panama		2: 1 (1: 0)
	Trinidad and Tobago - Costa Rica		0-0
	USA - Costa Rica		3: 0 (1: 0)
	Costa Rica - Guatemala		3: 2 (1: 0)
	Mexico - Costa Rica		2: 0 (0: 0)
	Panama - Costa Rica		1: 3 (0: 1)
	Costa Rica - Trinidad and Tobago		2: 0 (1: 0)
	Costa Rica - USA		3: 0 (1: 0)
	Guatemala - Costa Rica		3: 1 (3: 0)

Costa Rican contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Álvaro Mesén	CS Herediano	12/24/1972	0	0	0	0	0
18th	José Francisco Porras	CD Saprissa	11/08/1970	3	0	0	0	0
23	Wardy Alfaro	LD Alajuelense	December 31, 1977	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Jervis Drummond	CD Saprissa	09/08/1976	2	0	0	0	0
3	Luis Marín	LD Alajuelense	08/10/1974	3	0	2	0	0
4th	Michael Umaña	Los Angeles Galaxy	07/16/1982	3	0	1	0	0
5	Gilberto Martínez	Brescia Calcio	10/01/1979	1	0	0	0	0
12th	Leonardo González	CS Herediano	11/21/1980	3	0	1	0	0
17th	Gabriel Badilla	CD Saprissa	06/30/1984	1	0	1	0	0
20th	Douglas Sequeira	Real Salt Lake City	08/23/1977	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Michael Rodríguez	LD Alajuelense	12/30/1981	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Danny Fonseca	CS Cartaginés	07/11/1979	2	0	1	0	0
7th	Christian Bolaños	CD Saprissa	05/17/1984	2	0	0	0	0
8th	Mauricio Solís	CSD Comunicaciones	12/13/1972	3	0	1	0	0
10	Walter Centeno	CD Saprissa	10/06/1974	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Randall Azofeifa	CD Saprissa	12/30/1984	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Harold Wallace	LD Alajuelense	07.09.1975	2	0	0	0	0
16	Carlos Hernández	LD Alajuelense	04/09/1982	2	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Paulo Wanchope	CS Herediano	07/31/1976	3	2	0	0	0
11	Rónald Gomez	CD Saprissa	01/24/1975	3	1	1	0	0
13	Kurt Bernard	Puntarenas FC	08/08/1977	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Álvaro Saborío	CD Saprissa	03/25/1982	2	0	0	0	0
21	Víctor Núñez	CS Cartaginés	04/15/1980	0	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Alexandre Guimarães		07/11/1959

Games of Costa Rica

Quarters of the team

Hotel Holiday Inn in Walldorf . Training grounds in Heidelberg and Sandhausen .

Preliminary round

• Friday, June 9th, 6pm in Munich
  Germany - Costa Rica 4: 2 (2: 1)

• Thursday, June 15, 3 p.m. in Hamburg
  Ecuador - Costa Rica 3: 0 (1: 0)

• Tuesday, June 20, 4 p.m. in Hanover
  Costa Rica - Poland 1: 2 (1: 1)

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group A