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title: Costa Rica national football team text: their long journey, started in 2007, as the reason of their achievement. The Ticos' qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup started with a bye to the fourth round, where they won five games and drew one, letting them advance to the fifth round. There, they finished second behind Mexico. They won four matches, drew another four and lost two. In December 2017, Costa Rica was drawn in Group E against Brazil, Switzerland and Serbia. The team expected to repeat their surprise performance in 2014, due to the fact that many of the key players from the 2014 tournament were title: Costa Rica national football team results (2016) text: sealed their qualification to the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification final round, also known as Hexagonal, by defeating Haiti and Panama and finishing on the first place of their group. In October, Costa Rica defeated 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts Russia by 3–4 at the Krasnodar Stadium. Costa Rica began the Hexagonal with a 0–2 win against Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain. The "Ticos" went on to avenge their Copa América Centenario 4–0 defeat against the United States by defeating the Americans in San José by the same score. The victory marked the departure of United States' coach title: Costa Rica at the FIFA World Cup text: finals, namely in 1990, 2002, 2006, 2014 and 2018. Their best performance to date was in the 2014 edition, where they reached the quarter-finals. A list of the top goalscorers for Costa Rica in the FIFA World Cup. Joel Campbell, Óscar Duarte, Marco Ureña and Bryan Ruiz all scored in Costa Rica's 2014 World Cup campaign. Costa Rica at the FIFA World Cup This is a record of Costa Rica's results at the FIFA World Cup. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, title: Costa Rica national football team text: 2014 FIFA World Cup, with two games to spare. After a 1–0 loss at Honduras and 2–1 win over Mexico in October, Costa Rica finished second in the final CONCACAF qualifying round table behind the United States, with five home wins, three draws and two losses. In December 2013, Costa Rica was drawn in Group D against Italy, England, and Uruguay. Costa Rica were widely perceived as minnows who had no hope in a group against three former World Cup champion nations. They were given extremely unlikely odds of 2500 to 1 to win the tournament. Amazingly, they ended up title: Costa Rica national football team results (2017) text: 6, to the next day. Costa Rica secured their presence at the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a draw against the Hondurans with a stoppage time header by Kendall Waston. Costa Rica ended the qualification process as the second place of the Hexagonal after a loss against Panama in the last matchday, which allowed the Panamanians to qualify to their first ever World Cup. The match was met with controversy as referee Wálter López granted Panama's Blas Pérez a goal, in spite of the ball never crossing the line. Costa Rica ended the year with two losses at European soil,