Sunday, 20 July 2014


The selection of Costa Rica will enter the programmed Arena Fonte Nova Stadium in Salvador to face for the Netherlands in the quarter-finals of the World Cup Brazil 2014 in an unpublished game. The match to be played on Saturday July 5 will be refereed by Uzbek Ravshan Irmatov, who would arrive at a new figure, directing nine games in World Cups, five of which were in South Africa.

The "Clockwork Orange" seeks to reach second straight and for the fifth time in its history the semifinals, where only one instance was eliminated once against Brazil in the World Cup USA 1994 by a score of 3-2; by the side of the "Ticos" seek to achieve for the first time ever this instance, after beating the dreaded "Group of Death", beat two world champions Uruguay (3-1) and Italy (1-0) and tie with another champion England; in the second round he defeated Greece in penalties (Euro Champion 2004), in dramatic match where directed by Pinto had to fight with 10 men. If the selection of Costa Rica does beat the Dutch also made ​​history for his country, because it would be the first time in its history to reach this stage but became the second team from CONCACAF in getting a Cup semifinal World, the first was the United States in 1930 for their part if Netherlands beats would become the first European team to be crowned champion in a World Championship in South America.

The Netherlands team that arrives as the favorite for aboriginal women's semifinals, won his quarter-final pass to go up the score (1-0) to the Mexican national team in the last minutes of the match, winning 2-1, with goals Wesley Sneijder who tied the game and another goal from a penalty in injury-Jan deKlaas Hunteelar allowed the visitors victory that seemed slip away.

Both teams enter with low, Louis van Gaal will lower midfielder Nigel de Jong, who suffered a torn groin muscle that force you to be out two to four weeks, your place will be taken by De Guzman. On the side of Costa Rica will be without defender Oscar Duarte who was sent off during the match against Greece whom they defeated in a penalty shootout, could instead be occupied by Johnny Acosta.

Remember that the schedule of the match between Netherlands and Costa Rica is scheduled to be played from 17:00 (20h00 GMT.) Local time, and the pre-game starts half an hour before the meeting.

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