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Costa Rica's World Cup Runneth Over
HUMBLE PRIDE
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility
and with hard work, means everything.
Patrick Süskind
The afternoon of June 20, 2014 may not be recorded in history topics around the world, but
you can ask almost anyone in Costa Rica where they were and they will remember. It was
that day that Costa Rica's La Sele — the World Cup soccer team — defeated world-class
Italy to prove to everyone that they deserved a place in the competition.
Costa Rica went into the competition as an underdog. They were placed in a pool with
former world champions Italy and England, and the highly competitive team from Uruguay.
Their initial 3-1 victory over the Uruguayans was brushed off as a good side performing
