A total of seven Costa Rican players were tested for doping following the teams 1-0 win over Italy. This move has not gone down well with folks of the football community including the coach of the Costa Rican team. FIFA normally pick two players at random for post match testing, it was therefore a little bit weird for addition 5 players to be called in for anti-dope testing.
Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto criticized FIFA of favoritism towards Brazil. "It wasn't done tactfully," Pinto said. "They should be more consistent. I would like to see them ask Brazil for eight players for an anti-doping control". Pinto said Costa Rica isn't opposed to FIFA conducting anti-doping controls, but there should be equilibrium. He said his players are crystalline and pure.
Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho said on yahoo sports that FIFA showed lack of respect for Costa Rica. "The Special One" believes FIFA owes Costa Rica an apology over the actions the football governing took after Coster Rica defeated Italy. He said FIFA was insenitive by picking 7 players from the Costa Rican team after the final whistle. "It doesn't make sense to me" he concluded.
Angentine legend, Diego Maradona was next to hit out at FIFA. The 53 year old legend said: "If there were seven Costa Ricans, why weren't seven Italians?". Maradona pointed out that, this is new, but it's happening because it hurts a lot of people to see Costa Rica get through and that so-called world campions don't, because then the sponsors don't pay the cash they promised. "It happened to me, I suffered it, so I'm able to speak about the subject. But seven players, never". He made his comments at the Agentine TV show De Zurda. Maradona who was sent home from the 1994 competition after testing positive for ephedrine agrees on anti-dope testing but stress that it has to be fair. He also tested positive for cocaine in 1991 and was suspended from football for 15 months.
Newspaper El Dia gave out the following names as being the seven players selected by FIFA for testing: Bryan Ruiz, Michael Barrantes, Keylor Navas, Celso Borges, Christian Bolanos, Diego Calvo and Marco Urena.
Unfair and injustice, I must say
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