Costa Rica World Cup 2018 squad list and team guide
Here we take a look at CostaRica's World Cup squad and the other things it will be handy to know.
Costa Rica's World Cup squad - the 23 names
Keylor Navas, Patrick Pemberton, Leonel Moreira, Cristian Gamboa, Ian Smith, Ronald Matarrita, Bryan Oviedo, Oscar Duarte, Giancarlo Gonzalez, Francisco Calvo, Kendall Waston, Johnny Acosta, David Guzman, Yeltsin Tejeda, Celso Borges, Randall Azofeifa, Rodney Wallace, Bryan Ruiz, Daniel Colindres, Christian Bolanos, Johan Venegas, Joel Campbell, Marco Urena.
Costa Rica's World Cup 2018 fixtures
Serbia: Sunday, June 17 at 1pm
Brazil: Friday, June 22 at 1pm
Switzerland: Wednesday, June 27 at 7pm
What odds are Costa Rica to win the World Cup?
500/1
The kits
See where Costa Rica's shirts ends up in our ranking of all 64 World Cup shirts below:
Who's the coach?
Óscar Ramírez, one of Costa Rica’s most successful managers ever in domestic football and a former national side favourite, took over Los Ticos in 2015.
Who's the star?
Bryan Ruiz, the former Fulham stalwart, is a left-sided support striker with huge international experience. Captain.
Best thing about them
Perhaps the most stable team in the tournament: they could easily start eight of the XI who drew 0-0 with England in 2014.
Worst thing about them
Having qualified with two games to spare this time, and having topped a group ahead of Italy, Uruguay and England in Brazil, they can no longer summon underdog fire.
You may recognise...
Why, look: it's Keylor Navas in goal, the Real Madrid custodian and keen on-pitch pray-er.
Cameramen will be picking out...
Left-midfielder Rodney Wallace, who was born in Costa Rican capital San José and is not the same as the Southampton and Leeds early 90s goal machine Rod Wallace.
Fans' favourite chant
"Oee, Oee, Oee, Oee,Ticos, Ticos!" with added banging drums.
On-field prediction
Outsiders at 9/2 to progress. Shame for the Ticos they're not playing England.
Off-field prediction
Noisy, fun, passionate, and dressed in one of the finest football strips around.
