Costa Rica national football team

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The Costa Rica national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Costa Rica) represents Costa Rica in men's international football, and is governed by the Costa Rican Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Costarricense de Fútbol), the governing body for football in Costa Rica founded in 1921. It has been a full member of FIFA since 1927, is a founding member of CONCACAF which was founded in 1961, and is also a member of UNCAF in the Central American Zone. From 1938 to 1961, the team was a member of CCCF, the former governing body for football in Central America and Caribbean. Costa Rica was also a member of PFC, the former unified confederation of the Americas. Costa Rica has qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times, it is one of five CONCACAF teams to have advanced to the knockout stage, reaching the quarter-finals in 2014 and also reaching the round of 16 in 1990. The team qualified twice for the Olympic Games (1980 and 1984). Costa Rica has participated twenty-three times...

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