Costa Rica's FIFA ranks 31st in the world, sandwiched between Nigeria at 30th and Egypt at 32nd... This may be something that many people do not expect. The closest Asian team to Costa Rica is South Korea, ranked 29th in the world, while AFC's Australia is ranked 42nd, 11 places below Colombia.
Costa Rica's World Cup record
Since the early 1990s, Costa Rica has been a regular visitor to the World Cup and has almost never missed a World Cup since, except for the 94th and 98th and 10th editions. In the 5 World Cups they have participated in, they have not qualified from the group 3 times and reached the knockout rounds twice.
1990: Round of 16
2002: The group did not qualify
2006: The group did not qualify
2014: 1/4 Final
2018: The group is not out
Costa Rica's relationship with Asian football
This small country in Central America has little to do with Asian football, and almost no Costa Ricans have chosen to cross the ocean to play in Asian football. Most of their intersection with Asian football is found in the World Cup or the World Cup. A well-known intersection occurred in Manchester City before the golden dollar football, costa Rican striker Wan Qiaopu, who was a teammate of Chinese player Sun Jihai for a while, but this relationship is similar to de Thomas and Wu Lei's teammates in espanyol today, and in fact, there is little intersection.
Costa Rica's head-to-head record against Asian teams
The colombian team's record against some Asian teams is as follows:
Costa Rica vs South Korea: 8 wins, 3 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats
Costa Rica vs Saudi Arabia: 4-3 wins, 1 loss
Costa Rica vs China: 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss
Costa Rica vs Oman: 1 win 1 win
Costa Rica vs Japan: 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses
Costa Rica vs Australia: 1 vs 1 loss
Costa Rica vs Iran: 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss
Costa Rica vs Qatar: 1 draw