Soccer World Cup 2015 / Costa Rica

This article covers the Costa Rican national football team of the women in the soccer World Cup Women 2015 in Canada . Costa Rica took part in the World Cup finals for the first time, but retired after the group stage as the worst group third. The team qualified second in the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup .

qualification

Costa Rica has had to get in a tournament in Guatemala City for the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup qualifying .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Costa Rica	2	2	0	0	007-000	+7	06th
2.	El Salvador	2	1	0	1	002: 400	−2	03
3.	Nicaragua	2	0	0	2	000: 500	−5	00

May 22, 2014	El Salvador	-	Costa Rica	0: 4 (0: 2)	Acosta (15th), R. Rodríguez (43.), Alvarado (50.), L. Rodríguez (51.)
May 24, 2014	Costa Rica	-	Nicaragua	3: 0 (2: 0)	R. Rodríguez (14th), Alvarado (19th), Villalobos (72th)

At the Gold Cup, Costa Rica surprisingly took first place in the group stage ahead of Mexico. The game against Martinique will not be counted by FIFA as Martinique is not a FIFA member.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Costa Rica	9: 2	9
2	Mexico	13: 2	6th
3	Jamaica	8: 5	3
4th	Martinique	1:22	0

October 16, 2014 in Kansas City
Costa Rica	-	Mexico	1: 0 (1: 0)	Venegas (8.)
October 18, 2014 in Bridgeview
Costa Rica	-	Jamaica	2: 1 (0: 0)	Cruz (76.), R. Rodríguez (87.)
October 21, 2014 in Washington, DC
Martinique	-	Costa Rica	1: 6 (0: 3)	Sánchez (7th), Venegas (25th, 90th), Acosta (32nd), R. Rodríguez (82nd, 83rd)

Semifinals

October 24, 2014 in Chester
Costa Rica	-	Trinidad and Tobago	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0), 3: 0 i. E.	Venegas (19.)

With the victory in the semi-finals, the team qualified early for the World Cup finals.

final

October 26, 2014 in Chester
Costa Rica	-	United States	0: 6 (0: 4)

The top scorer was Raquel Rodríguez with five goals, two of them in qualifying. Carolina Venegas was the second best scorer with four goals, all of which she scored in the Gold Cup.

Thanks to the successful World Cup qualification and the following games, the Costa Ricans were able to improve to their best position to date, 37th in the FIFA world rankings in December 2014 .

preparation

After the Gold Cup, the team took part in the soccer tournament at the Central America and Caribbean Games. All games took place in Boca del Río .

• Central America and Caribbean Games:
  • November 18, 2014 against Venezuela: 2: 1 (0: 1)
  • November 20, 2014 against Nicaragua: 3-0 (2-0)
  • November 22, 2014 against the Dominican Republic: 6: 1 (3: 0)
  • November 25, 2014 semi-final against World Cup participants Mexico: 0: 1 (0: 0)
  • November 27, 2014 Game for 3rd place against Venezuela: 3: 2 (1: 2)
• Istria Cup 2015 :
  • 0March 4, 2015 in Umag ( Croatia ) against Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-0
  • 0March 6, 2015 in Croatia at the Istria Cup 2015 against France-B 0: 0
  • 0March 9, 2015 in Buje ( Croatia ) at the Istria Cup 2015 against Wales 0: 1
  • March 11, 2015 in Umag ( Croatia ) Game for 9th place at the Istria Cup 2015 against Ireland 1: 2
• Other test matches:
  • May 25, 2015 against World Cup participants Mexico 1: 2
  • May 28, 2015 against World Cup participants Mexico 0: 3
  • May 31, 2015 against the World Cup participants Colombia 1: 2
  • 0June 3, 2015 against World Cup participants Colombia 0: 1

Contingent

The squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), which must be communicated to the FIFA general secretariat at least ten working days before the opening match, was named on May 20. At the age of 15 years and 293 days in the first World Cup game of the Costa Ricans, Gloriana Villalobos is the youngest participant. She can beat the previous record of the Nigerian Ifeanyi Chiejine , who was used in 1999 at the age of 16 years and 34 days.

number	Surname	Date of birth	society	Calls	Gates	World Cup 2015
						Sp.
goal
18th	Yirlania Arroyo	05/28/1986	Sky Blue FC	40	00	0	0	0	0	0
13	Noelia Bermúdez	09/20/1994	CD Saprissa	01	00	0	0	0	0	0
1	Dinnia Díaz	01/14/1988	UD Moravia	24	00	3	0	0	0	0
Defense
22nd	Maria Coto	02/03/1998	LD Alajuelense	03	00	0	0	0	0	0
8th	Daniela Cruz	03/08/1991	CD Saprissa	33	06th	0	0	0	0	0
2	Gabriela Guillén	03/01/1992	CD Saprissa	11	00	1	0	0	0	0
12	Lixy Rodríguez	04/11/1990	LD Alajuelense	50	02	3	0	0	0	0
5	Diana Sáenz	04/15/1989	South Florida Bulls	51	00	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Fabiola Sánchez	04/09/1993	Martin Methodist College	11	03	1	0	0	0	0
6th	Carol Sánchez	04/16/1986	UD Moravia	36	02	3	0	0	0	0
midfield
16	Katherine Alvarado	04/11/1991	CD Saprissa	50	18th	3	0	0	0	0
4th	Mariana Benavides	December 26, 1994	CS Herediano	12	04th	0	0	0	0	0
10	Shirley Cruz	08/28/1985	Paris Saint-Germain	63	21st	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Cristin Granados	08/19/1989	CD Saprissa	56	10	3	0	0	0	0
11	Raquel Rodríguez Cedeño	10/28/1993	Penn State Nittany Lions	40	25th	3	1	0	0	0
3	Emelie Valenciano	02/15/1997	LD Alajuelense	05	00	1	0	0	0	0
23	Gloriana Villalobos	08/20/1999	CD Saprissa	12	02	0	0	0	0	0
attack
14th	Maria Barrantes	04/12/1989	UD Moravia	23	21st	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Wendy Costa	December 19, 1989	UD Moravia	39	18th	2	0	0	0	0
7th	Melissa Herrera	10/10/1996	CD Saprissa	23	13	3	1	0	0	0
21st	Adriana Venegas	06/12/1989	CS Herediano	10	05	0	0	0	0	0
9	Carolina Venegas	09/28/1991	CD Saprissa	37	15th	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Karla Villalobos	07/16/1986	CS Herediano	09	04th	3	1	0	0	0
Coaching staff
trainer	Amelia Valverde	01/14/1987	FCF			3		0	0	0
Remarks: ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list (published on May 28, 2015), positions according to the Costa Rican Association's squad list ↑ As of May 22, 2015 (M = champions, P = cup winners of the 2014/15 season) ↑ a b Status: June 17, 2015

Games at the World Cup

Moncton Montreal

Venues

When the groups were drawn, Costa Rica was not seeded and was “drawn” to group E with South American champions Brazil.

South Korea and World Cup newcomer Spain were drawn as further opponents . There were two previous games against Brazil, both of which were lost. They have never played against Spain and South Korea before.

In the first game against Spain, Costa Rica fell behind in the 13th minute, but took advantage of the Spaniards' euphoria about their first World Cup goal to score their first World Cup goal immediately. Raquel Rodríguez scored the fastest equalizer in World Cup history in which there was no own goal. Against ball-loving Spaniards, who then pushed for the winning goal, Costa Rica defended the draw with luck and skill. In the second game against South Korea, Costa Rica took the lead in the 17th minute, but received an equalizer four minutes later with a penalty and fell behind another four minutes later. The equalization efforts remained fruitless until the 89th minute, when Karla Villalobos , who had been substituted 13 minutes earlier, managed to equalize. This meant that Costa Rica was second in the group before the last group game against Brazil, but needed a win to make it to the round of 16 safely. Although Brazil started without six regular players (including Marta , Cristiane and Formiga ), Costa Rica could not create a scoring chance, but held the 0-0 for a long time. It was only in the 83rd minute that the Brazilians scored the winning goal. With that Costa Rica was only third in the group and since they were the worst third in the group, they were eliminated.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	004-000	+4	09
2.	South Korea	3	1	1	1	004: 500	−1	04th
3.	Costa Rica	3	0	2	1	003: 400	−1	02
4th	Spain	3	0	1	2	002: 400	−2	01

Tue., June 9, 2015, in Montreal
Spain	-	Costa Rica	1: 1 (1: 1)
Sat. June 13, 2015, in Montreal
South Korea	-	Costa Rica	2: 2 (2: 1)
Wed. June 17, 2015, in Moncton
Costa Rica	-	Brazil	0: 1 (0: 0)

See also

Costa Rican Women's National Football Team / World Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Germany replaces the USA at the top"
2. ↑ Games of the Costa Rican women's national soccer team
3. ↑ fifa.com: "Regulations FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™"
4. ↑ fedefutbolcr.com: "Tricolor definió las mundialistas" ( Memento of the original of May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ framba.de: Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce ( memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated December 6, 2014. 

Web links

• CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2014