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Costa Rica is the only national team in Central America to have played in six FIFA World Cup editions. Costa Rica's national football team has the all-time highest average Football Elo Ranking in Central America with 1597.1, and the all-time highest Football Elo Ranking in Central America, with 1806 in 2014.
The Big Three (Spanish: Los Tres Grandes) is the nickname of the three most successful sports clubs in Costa Rica.The football teams of Deportivo Saprissa, LD Alajuelense, and CS Herediano have a great rivalry, and are usually the main contenders for the title.
The name of the team comes from one of the club's main founders, Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. One of the most popular nicknames for the team El Monstruo Morado ( The Purple Monster ) can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra gave the team the nickname during a derby, because of the club's enormous following.
This is a list of association football clubs located in Costa Rica. For a complete list, see Category:Football clubs in Costa Rica. Active teams. A. ...
Costa Rica: Los Ticos: The Ticos From the local linguistic habit of creating diminutives by adding "tico" instead of "tito" to the end of words. [15] La Sele Shortening of "The Selection" (in Spanish) Named after the most successful national football team in the history of Central America.
Celso Borges is Costa Rica's most capped international of all time with 163 caps. The Costa Rica national football team has represented Costa Rica in international football since 1921, when they played their first international, a 7–0 win over El Salvador in the Independence Centenary Games. Organized by the Costa Rican Football Federation, it joined FIFA in 1927 and CONCACAF in 1961 ...
Costa Rica national badminton team; Costa Rica national baseball team; Costa Rica men's national basketball team; Costa Rica men's national under-15 and under-16 basketball team; Costa Rica women's national under-15 and under-16 basketball team; Costa Rica women's national under-17 and under-18 basketball team; Costa Rica national beach soccer team
On 5 September 2019, it renewed its shield and colors, using black and white as a tribute to the extinct La Libertad team. It was also renamed to "Sporting Football Club". On 23 June 2020 Sporting F.C. manages to win the grand finale of the promotion league, and with this ascend to the First Division of Costa Rica for the first time in its history.