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June 5
Costa Rican
Clubs Snub National Team Coach
By Jack Bell
A little more than a week before Costa Rica
hosts the United States in a World Cup
qualifying match, the two clubs involved in
the Costa Rican finals have declined to
release their players.
Coach Rodrigo Kenton has named 25 players to
his roster for a training camp that is
scheduled to start on Monday, which is in
the middle of the home-and-home series.
The roster includes six players from the two
teams — C.S. Herediano and Municipal Liberia
Mía — who are involved in an already delayed
series for the Torneo de Verano championship
of Costa Rica’s top league.
Costa Rica is scheduled to play the visiting
United States in its capital, San José, on
June 3. After three matches in the
six-nation final round of qualifying in the
Concacaf region for three automatic spots in
next summer’s World Cup in South Africa, the
United States (2-0-1), in first place with 7
points, leads Costa Rica (2-1-0) by 1 point.
The start of finals of the Costa Rican
championship, which was scheduled for Friday
in Liberia’s Estadio Edgardo Baltodano
Briceño, was delayed because of a protest
filed by Deportivo Saprissa. Saprissa,
perhaps the most successful club team in
Costa Rica, alleged that Liberia played in
the second leg of its semifinal series
against Saprissa (won by Liberia, 2-1, on
aggregate after a 1-0 win away in San José)
with players who carried too many yellow
cards.
The Costa Rican federation dismissed the
claim, but delayed Friday’s match. The
finals are now scheduled to be played Sunday
in Liberia, which is in the western part of
the country. The return match in Heredia,
which is about 6 miles north of the capital,
will be played Wednesday in Herediano’s
Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero.
Kenton has named four Herediano and two
Liberia players to his roster for the match
against the United States. (In addition, he
called Gonzalo Segares, a defender for
Chicago of Major League Soccer, who is
expected to travel to Costa Rica after
Sunday’s match against the Red Bulls in East
Rutherford, N.J.)
From Herediano, Kenton called goalkeeper
Ricardo Gonzalez, defender Dennis Marshall,
and forwards Andy Furtado and Andy Herron
(who has played in M.L.S. for Chicago and
Columbus). The players from Liberia are
defenders Esteban Sirias and Harold Wallace.
The United States is expected to announce
its roster for the games against Costa Rica
and Honduras (in Chicago on June 6) on
Tuesday.
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