And another thing -- why did Costa Rica's staff feel the need to bring in a motivational speaker for the players? Getting over the US-CR game is of course very important, but that was over a month ago. And while I do think that "Color Esperanza" is a great song (it was impossible not to hear it throughout Argentina during 2002), if you need an outside speaker to get motivated three days before a winner-take-all two-match series for the World Cup, you really need to turn in your national team shirt.
But I wonder if the talk went anything like Matt Foley's:
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