Costa Rica have been a member of FIFA since 1927 and is one of the most successful national football team in the history of Central America.
Having won the CONCACAF Championships in 1963, 1969 and 1989, the La Muerte (Death) is the only national team in Central America to have played in four 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.
In their qualifiers group, Cosat Rica finished at number two behind Mexico with 16 points from 10 matches and have four and drew as many, but lost two.
Although they were drawn in Group D together with Italy, England, and Uruguay in the previous edition in Brazil, they amazingly ended up topping the group with two wins against Uruguay and Italy and a 0–0 draw with England.
Coach Oscar Ramirez is carrying the hopes of the Central American antion to cause an upset in Russia come next year.
epa06845786 Bryan Ruiz (C) of Costa Rica in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845380 Xherdan Shaqiri (L) of Switzerland in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845402 Daniel Colindres (R) of Costa Rica and Valon Behrami of Switzerland in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845359 Breel Embolo of Switzerland (R) and Celso Borges of Costa Rica (L) in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845372 Joel Campbell (C) of Costa Rica in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845374 Denis Zakaria of Switzerland (R) and Manuel Akanji of Switzerland in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845356 Xherdan Shaqiri (C) of Switzerland in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845342 Bryan Oviedo (L) of Costa Rica and Valon Behrami of Switzerland in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845326 Ricardo Rodriguez of Switzerland (R) and Bryan Ruiz of Costa Rica in action the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06845278 Johnny Acosta of Costa Rica (R) and Breel Embolo of Switzerland in action the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Switzerland and Costa Rica in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 27 June 2018.
epa06830534 Yeltsin Tejeda of Costa Rica (L) and Neymar of Brazil in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830266 Willian of Brazil (L) and Bryan Oviedo of Costa Rica in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830164 David Guzman of Costa Rica (down) and Gabriel Jesus of Brazil in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830162 Costa Rica's goalkeeper Keylor Navas (R) in action against Miranda (L) of Brazil during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830191 Neymar (L) of Brazil and Goalkeeper Keylor Navas of Costa Rica in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830239 Bryan Ruiz of Costa Rica (C), Willian of Brazil (L) and Thiago Silva of Brazil in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06830247 Bryan Ruiz of Costa Rica (R) and Willian of Brazil (L) in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Brazil and Costa Rica in St.Petersburg, Russia, 22 June 2018.
epa06815424 Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (R) of Serbia and Oscar Duarte (L) of Costa Rica in action during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Costa Rica and Serbia in Samara, Russia, 17 June 2018.
epa06815468 Marcos Urena (L) of Costa Rica in action against Dusko Tosic (R) of Serbia during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Costa Rica and Serbia in Samara, Russia, 17 June 2018.
epa06815388 Nikola Milenkovic (L) of Serbia in action against Marcos Urena (R) of Costa Rica during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Costa Rica and Serbia in Samara, Russia, 17 June 2018.
epa06815405 Nikola Milenkovic (C-R) of Serbia in action against Marcos Urena (front L) of Costa Rica during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Costa Rica and Serbia in Samara, Russia, 17 June 2018.
Dusan Tadic (L) of Serbia in action against Francisco Calvo (R) of Costa Rica during the FIFA World Cup 2018 group E preliminary round soccer match between Costa Rica and Serbia in Samara, Russia, 17 June 2018.
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