Morado, what has changed in Costa Rica that has given them the success from 1988 to the present that they did not have previously to that? Also, CR is very lucky that Mexico was DQd for Italy because their 2nd round appearance would likely have been removed in place of a knocked out in the semifinal appearance. That format truly sucked as CR was the 2nd best team in the region, but they might not have made the hex (pent!).
i dont think you can make a case in Central America that there has been one team more dominant than the others. If anything, Central America tends to go in cycles. El Salvador and Honduras showed themselves first and it took almost 20 years for CR to make it to the WC. Since then Honduras and El Salvador has lost some ground. Is it fair to assume thatr El Salvador lost some ground during the 80s due to their tragic civil war?
I'd have to say Costa Rica. Top ranked in FIFA rankings, appeared in 2002 WC, has by far more players in Europe than any other Central American country, favorite to advance to Germany 2006 (instead of Guatemala and Panama).
put starting eleven for both guatemala and costa rica and guate is by far the best team....who cares about history we are talking about present and once this is settled I will allow everyone to come back and apologize....end of discussion...
That's the thing about discussions though.. It doesn't matter who wins when... the discussions will never be settled.... If they win now, they say they beat you before... If you say we beat you before, they say we beat you now... it will never end...
KingChapin you lucky your in Houston, you get to see Guatemala vs South Africa for the gold cup. Thats the game I wanted to see.
Are you serious????? after reading the last page of this thread you still think that GUA is better than CR? Aren´t 9 goals in 2 games enough for you? C´mon.....! CRs b team just beated the sh!t out of GUA, with 11 unknown players...and @ home...????? hello! You are really lucky that you live in houston, you didnt have to see your GUA getting smacked by CR-B on your own yard.
Yeah yeah your B team beat our B Team (we were missing like 7 players) we get it, Happy. Now moving on.....
costa rica and guatemala are good teams but of course in just my opinion costa rica is better than guatemala. not just because of the 4-0 score. i believe that costa rica will finish the hex better than guatemala.
you should say that to your buddy kingchapin, i know that you and racindog already understood, it just seems that he still doesn't get it.
I think every person with some football knowledge will have to agree tha CR is and probably will always be better than GUat....
Not always, at the moment but not always. Thats what everyone else in concacaf said about the US and we know how that changed, plus Guatemala (those in charge of the National team) have never really taken going to the world cup seriuosly until now and more money has been invested. Other times they dint even care if the National team played and stayed in shape. I see Guatemala coming out and showing what we have as our population grows and those in charge finally figure out that soccer in Guatemala is the main sport and can make them more money if they invest more and not just by bringing in players from South America that get paid to much to play for our teams, I would rather bring in players from Africa or Asia.
I think that Costa Rica at the moment does have a better overall NT team. (Based upon their two appearances in WCs, and how they have been matching up against Guatemala, esp recently.) Guatemala is a team taht is improving however, and one should not even state that CR will always be better than GUA. If Guatemala makes the world cup this year and does a decent job then this can be seen as the first step in becoming a CONCACAF powerhouse.
i agree that you can't say that a nt will always be better than another. i think that guatemala has what it takes to be the next concacaf team in the world cup. i don't know if guatemala will finish in the top three but with the fourth spot in the air it will be fun to watch if four concacaf teams make it to the world cup
didn't i end this thread young bucks....yall go ahead and start another thread and play along....ticos better than chapines...haaaaaaaa......where is my chapines at????? can't wait till we play yall
eaaaasssy tiger....knowledge?..you probably haven't ever played soccer ..and playstation doesn't count
Oh yeah... you ended this thread....i forgot it.....LLLLLOL!!!!!! why???? isn´t it 9 goals in 2 games enough for YA?
Alajuelense winning the CCC in 1986 really helped our clubs in revamping their structure and development. Also, it was a fortunate thing that Mexico was disqualified for the semifinals of the penta. The true trigger to our success was beating Sweden 1-2 to reach the 2nd round, though.
If we go by results in the last year this would be my ranking 1. Honduras 2. Panama 3.Guatemala 4. Costa Rica 5. El Salvador 6. Belize & Nicaragua It might all change (hopefully for us) during the qualifiers.
now, honduras historically, CR but it is always pretty darn close and Guate & panama are good 3rd places