Keylor Navas is the great star of Costa Rica. /
Analysis
Costa Rica and New Zealand will play in June who completes the group of Spain in the World Cup in Qatar
Costa Rica and New Zealand will play in June for the last place in Spain’s group at the World Cup in Qatar. Ticos and kiwis would be a priori affordable rivals for the team led by Luis Enrique, who has faced the Central Americans three times, with two wins for La Roja and a draw, and only once against the oceanic team, to which he He endorsed a ‘little hand’ in the 2009 Confederations Cup.
Costa Rica aspires to dispute what would be its sixth participation in the final phase of the World Cups. His top is the quarterfinals he reached in Brasil’14, already with Keylor Navas as a great star under the sticks. The former Levante and Real Madrid goalkeeper, now at PSG, continues to lead the Central American team, trained by Luis Fernando Suárez and where footballers such as Bryan Ruiz or Celso Borges stand out.
For New Zealand, it would be their third presence in the final phase of the World Cups, after their debut in Spain’82 and their participation in South Africa in 2010. On neither of those two occasions did they manage to get past the group phase and neither managed to inaugurate his locker of victories. Trained by Danny Hay, the New Zealand team’s main figure is Chris Wood, a striker from Burnley for whom Newcastle paid 30 million euros in the last winter market.
