Gold Cup 2025

Costa Rica stun Suriname with added time penalty in a Gold Cup classic

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June 15 – With the baking sun of a sweltering San Diego day in Southern California giving way to a cool evening, Costa Rica went from red hot to freezing cold as they threw away their lead and had to battle back to win with 10 men and a penalty more than 10 minutes into added time.

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That World Cup race again. It’s coming

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Will anything change? Ever? Has FIFA cleaned its Augean Stables of US/Latino making? Corruption, bribery, kick-backs, nepotism, favoritism – have they all disappeared, are they gone with the wind? The wind of (US-controlled) change?

“Quo vadis FIFA?”, one might ask, eight years later.

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