Kenton Named Costa
Rica's Coach
(FIFA.com)
Guatemala under-20
national coach Rodrigo
Kenton has replaced
sacked Hernán Medford at
the reins of Costa Rican
national soccer team.
Under Medford, Costa
Rica went 12 successive
games without a victory
until they beat Grenada
3-0 on June 21 in the
second leg of a World
Cup qualifier. The two
sides drew 2-2 in the
first leg.
Despite that poor run of
form, a two-leg win
against Grenada early
this month saw Costa
Rica go through to the
next round of
qualification for the
2010 FIFA World Cup.
Kenton, 53, has already
been in charge of the
side during FIFA World
Cup qualifying in 1990
and 2002.
Costa Rica have
qualified for the FIFA
World Cup on three
occasions and reached
the second round of the
1990 finals in Italy.
"Kenton will travel from Guatemala to Costa Rica on Wednesday and be
officially presented as
national team coach on
Thursday," national team
spokesman Randell Vargas
said.
Kenton coached the Costa
Rican Olympic team in
Athens in 2004 and
served as assistant to
Bora Milutinovic when
the Serbian coached
Costa Rica to a
second-round appearance
in the 1990 World Cup in
Italy.
He also assisted
Milutinovic in 1998 when
he was coaching the
Nigerian team in the
World Cup in France.
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