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Pre-match analysis
Round 2 - Stage 3
Saturday 6 Sep. 2008, at 02:00+ GMT
Ricardo Saprissa Aymá Stadium, San José (CRC)
Capacity: 23 100
16ºC degrees
COSTA RICA
referee: tbc
assistant referee: tbc
assistant referee: tbc
SURINAME
Ricardo GONZALEZ
Christian MONTERO
Junior DIAZ
Celso BORGES
Alonso SOLIS
Alvaro SABORIO
Walter CENTENO
Brian RUIZ
Gonzalo SEGARES
Harold WALLACE
Alejandro ALPIZAR
Ronny ALOEMA
Ferdinand JAP A JOE
Derrik GARDEN
Marlon FELTER
Rinaldo LUPSON
Germaine Sergio VAN DIJK
Emilio LIMON
Romano SORDAM
Cifton SANDVLIET
Vangellino SASTROMEDJO
Wensley CHRISTOPH
bench
Keylor NAVAS
Jervis DRUMMOND
Armando ALONSO
Froylan LEDEZMA
Leonardo GONZALEZ
Eric SCOTT
William SUN SING
bench
Melvin VALIES
Jerome STRIJDER
Claudio PINAS
Gary SORDJO
Hesron JEROE
Lorenzo WIEBERS
Charan BIESWADJIET
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SURINAME
COSTA RICA
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In the moment, Costa Rica is the 73rd in
the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, right
after Peru. The country uses the Ricardo
Saprissa Aymá Stadium, located in the
city of San Jose.
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The football national team of Costa Rica
won two times the CONCACAF
Championship (1963, 1969). Other great
result that the country got was been
Runners-Up of the CONCACAF Gold Cup
in 2002.
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Costa Rica played three times the FIFA
World Cup, in 1990, that occurred in
Italy, 2002, that occurred in Korea and
Japan, in 2006, that occurred in
Germany. The best campaing was in
1990, when the team was eliminated in
the Round of 16, against Czechoslovakia
(1-4).
Costa Rica played 4 friendly matches this
year: didn´t win any, and tied 2 and lost
2. The results are: 0-1 against Sweden;
0-0 against Iran; 1-1 against Jamaica; 13 against Peru.
In the last match for the FIFA World
CONCACAF Qualifier, Costa Rica played
at home against El Salvador and won by
1-0 (Álvaro Saborío 48’).
Costa Rica played only the second stage
of the CONCACAF Qualifier because the
country doesn´t has to participate of the
preliminary round. Costa Rica tied with
Granada by 2-2 playing away and won
the second, at home, by 3-0.
The group stage of the FIFA World
CONCACAF Qualifier started last round.
For the first round, Costa Rica won El
Salvador (1-0) and is the first in the
group C: 3 points in 1 match, scored 1
goal and allowed 0 (the Qualifier has 3
groups of 4 country – 6 matches per
national team).
Costa Rica played 3 times against
Suriname in the history of this confront.
Head-to-head, Costa Rica won 3
matches, draw 0 and lost 0; Costa Rica
scored 7 goals and allowed 2.
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At the moment, Suriname is the 84nd in
the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, tied
with Zimbabwe. This is the best position
that Suriname ever reached. The country
uses the André Kamperveen Stadium,
located in Mexico City.
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The football national team of Suriname
won the CONCACAF Championship Cup
twice: 1973 and 1981. That is the main
titles of the country in football.
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Suriname never played a FIFA World Cup
in the history. If the team classifies to
the next round will be very close to the
very first apperence in the FIFA World
Cup South Africa 2010.
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Suriname played only one friendly match
this year and lost to the Netherlands
Antilles by 1-2. The team also played two
matches for the Continental Qualifier: 31 against Dominica; 1-1 against Guyana.
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In the last match for the FIFA World
CONCACAF Qualifier, Suriname played
away against Haiti and tied by 2-2
(Wensley Christoph 33’, 47’).
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Suriname played the preliminar round
against Montsserat and won by 7-1
(Christoph Wensley 36’, 55’; Wondel
Cleon 44’; Valies Melvin 64’; Huur Kenzo
80’; Schurman Raydell 86’, 88’). In the
second round, Suriname won Guyana by
1-0 (Sandvliet Clifton 52’) and 2-1.
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The group stage of the FIFA World
CONCACAF Qualifier started last round.
For the first round, Suriname tied with
Haiti (2-2) and is the second in the group
C: 1 point in 1 match, scored 2 goals and
allowed 2 (the Qualifier has 3 groups of 4
country – 6 matches per national team).
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For the CONCACAF Qualifier, Suriname
played 2 times against Costa Rica: has 0
wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. The team
scored only 1 goal and allowed 4.
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The player from Suriname that was more
times capped for the football national
team is Clifton Sandvliet (69), and he is
also the player that scored more times:
79 goals.
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COSTA RICA
Top scorers of Costa Rica in this C. Qualifiers
Goals
2
1
1
1
1
Player
Alvaro Saborio
Armando Alonso
Brian Ruiz
Randall Azofeifa
Victor Nunez
All matches Concacaf Qualifiers
15/6/08
Granada
2-2 Costa Rica
21/6/08
Costa Rica 3-0 Granada
20/8/08
Costa Rica 1-0 El Salvador
06/9/08
Costa Rica vs.
Surinam
10/9/08
Haiti
vs.
Costa Rica
11/10/08 Surinam
vs.
Costa Rica
15/10/08 Costa Rica vs.
Haiti
19/11/08 El Salvador
vs.
Costa Rica
SURINAME
Top scorers of Surinam in this Concacaf Qualifiers
Goals
4
2
1
1
1
1
1
Player
Wensley Christoph
Clifton Sandvliet
Cleon Wondel
Germaine Van Dijk
Kenzo Huur
Melvin Valies
Raydell Schurman
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26/3/08
Montserrat 1-7 Surinam
14/6/08
Surinam
1-0 Guyana
22/6/08
Guyana
1-2 Surinam
20/8/08
Haití
2-2 Surinam
06/9/08
Costa Rica
vs.
Surinam
10/9/08
Surinam
vs.
El Salvador
11/10/08 Surinam
vs.
Costa Rica
15/10/08 El Salvador vs.
Surinam
19/11/08 Surinam
vs.
Haití
STANDINGS
Grupo 3
Team
M
W
D
L
GS
GA
Pts.
Costa Rica
1
1
0
0
1
0
3
Haití
1
0
1
0
2
2
1
Surinam
1
0
1
0
2
2
1
El Salvador
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
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