This World Cup is crowded, and many fans are paying attention to the warm-up matches of Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and other teams. However, small and medium-sized teams that participate also need to be watched. Costa Rica is one of the World Cup teams from Central America. Although their country is small, they have been qualified for the World Cup for many years, and in 2002 Costa Rica was grouped with China, Brazil and Turkey, when our Chinese football team shouted a slogan to beat Costa Rica, of course, it seemed like a joke afterwards.
Just today, Costa Rica was supposed to hold a warm-up match with Iraq. The match was originally scheduled to take place in Baghdad, the national capital of Iraq, and the Costa Rican national team, which has been training in the UAE, has already arranged a trip to cross the border today and travel to Iraq to play a warm-up match with their national team.
However, when Costa Rica waited in the border area to enter Iraq, it was embarrassed by local authorities. Previously, the Iraqi side promised the entire Costa Rican team that it could enter Iraq without stamping. This is mainly due to the fact that the stamp of many countries in the Middle East may affect the trip to other countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and so on. However, when Costa Rica wanted to enter the country, it was violated by customs and demanded that the passport be stamped.
They also have no access to Iraq. Finally, after waiting for hours in the border area, it had to decide to cancel the match against the Iraqi national team. This has had a big impact on the preparation of Costa Rica's small team, who will face Spain's strong rivals in five days' time, so good luck can only be wished.