Gustavo Alfaro asked that Costa Rica begin to be looked at with respect after a tie with Brazil

The coach of Costa Rica, the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, He wanted his team to be seen with more respect after debuting this Monday in the 2024 Copa América in the United States with a goalless draw against Brazil.

“I hope they start to look at us with respect, because we are a team that is going to fight from the order, to fight until the end,” he said in a press conference at the end of the match played in Inglewood, Los Angeles (California), for the first day of Group D.

“We were all assumed dead before the movie started,” he said. “It’s a nice prize for all these kids,” she concluded.

Alfaro, 61 years old, highlighted the performance of his team, the youngest team in the tournament with an average age of 24.7 years, against the five-time world champions.

“Except for the case of Francisco Calvo and Joel Campbell, this was the first game they played of this nature. The difference was very big, we knew it was very big, the issue is that on the field we did everything humanly possible to equal it,” he claimed.

The coach acknowledged that his team was left behind in offensive work, as he did not finish once at Alisson’s goal, but he did his job in defense, where goalkeeper Patrick Sequeira had an outstanding performance.

“One of the things I told them in the first half was: they want me to tell them the truth or lie to them. They asked for the truth. ‘If we continue playing like this, we will most likely lose the game. If we don’t force Brazil, you can’t resist 90 minutes like this,” he said.

“These are things that remain in our minds, hopefully this game, this teaching, this challenge that we have faced, will help us grow. The important thing is that the boys had the temperance, the ability to go through the discomfort, to suffer,” he concluded. .