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Costa Rica Runthrough   Photo from EFE Projected Staring XI:                    Navas  Gamboa Umana Gonzalez Miller                     Borges                Diaz Tejada                    Ureña (Ruiz)       Campbell  Ruiz (Saborio Runthrough When it comes to playing away from the great home confines of San Jose, the troubles are very prevalent for Costa Rica.  A sound 1-0 defeat in Sydney, Australia at the hands of the Socceroos last fall, in which Jorge Luis Pinto's squad could only muster one good chance there, represented how Costa Rica would struggle to even get to the knockout stages of a World Cup for only the second time in its history.  Then their Brazil 2014 group was revealed in December, and, well, they ...

Photo from Ball72 Legendary Brazilian forward Rivaldo chastised his country Thursday afternoon, vowing that their hosting of the World Cup Finals would be a complete failure. The famous striker and World Cup winner of 2002 based his attack not on the many unfinished stadiums left around the country, but for how the money used for the global tournament should instead go to many public services that the nation requires at the moment. "We knew this would happen," Rivaldo said after his team Mogi Mirim lost to Sao Paulo 4-0 in the Sao Paulo State Championship. "Brazil has alot to do like school, health and prison, not soccer fields for the World Cup taking so much money for one month."