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Costa Rica left the tournament as never having lost a match:
Costa Rica came into the World Cup, bereft of two of their best players, and in a World Cup group with three former world champions (including England). They left it agonisingly close to the semi-finals and to a heroes welcome back home.
Group Stage: Having beaten Uruguay and Italy, and drawing with England in a dead rubber, they then Round of 16: saw off Greece in a penalty shootout in the last 16 but lost to the Netherlands in a/the penalty shoot out in the quarter-final.
Great tournament!!!! 
Costa Rica came into the World Cup, bereft of two of their best players, and in a World Cup group with three former world champions (including England). They left it agonisingly close to the semi-finals and to a heroes welcome back home.
Group Stage: Having beaten Uruguay and Italy, and drawing with England in a dead rubber, they then Round of 16: saw off Greece in a penalty shootout in the last 16 but lost to the Netherlands in a/the penalty shoot out in the quarter-final.
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