Luis Fernando Suárez already knows his rival for the World Cup Repechage

Little by little, the 32 qualifiers for Qatar 2022 are being defined, which, although it will not have the participation of the Colombian National Team that was eliminated from the World Cup event, it could have Colombian coach, Luis Fernando Suárez.

The former coach of Atlético Nacional and Junior de Barranquilla secured at least the match last date with the away win against El Salvador 2-1 with goals from Anthony Contreras and Joel Campbell.

The 'Ticos' will close their participation in the Concacaf Qualifiers by hosting the United States at the National Stadium in the Costa Rican capital. The 'Roja' has a chance of winning a direct quota if they beat the Americans by more than four goals and Mexico falls at the Estadio Azteca to the Salvadorans.

Costa Rica is currently fourth with 22 points and +3 in the goal difference and is three units behind the 'Manitos', who have seven more goals in the difference. If nothing strange happens, Costa Rica will remain in fourth place and will compete in the repechage to buy its ticket to Qatar.

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Those led by Luis Fernando Suárez already have the peace of mind that they have one more chance of going to the next orbital event. In addition, you already know the Oceanian rival with whom they would have to fight for a direct place to Qatar.

This is New Zealand that for the third time in a row will play the repechage in this area. The 'All Whites' defeated Solomon Islands without major problems, which they thrashed 5-0 with scores by Bill Poni Tuilona in duplicate, Joe Bill, Matthew Garbett and of course Newcastle striker Chris Wood, the top benchmark of this team led by Danny Hay, could not miss.

In this way, the New Zealanders hope to know which opponent they will have at the helm to qualify for their third world championship after appearances in Spain 1982 and South Africa 2020. It should be remembered that for the 'Kiwis' they hope to break the bad streak in these comforts since for Brazil 2014 it fell to Mexico and for Russia 2018 it was overtaken by Peru.

For its part, this will be the second time that Costa Rica will play a playoff. In 2010 the command of Ricardo González dropped, the Central Americans were left out of South Africa 2010 when they fell to Uruguay.

In the history of playoffs, the representatives of Concacaf have played four series in which they have won twice with an equal number of falls. For Russia 2018, Honduras that was led by Jorge Luis Pinto lost to Australia.

It should be noted that all the repechage games will be played in a neutral stadium that is to be defined between 13 and 14 June 2022.

Luis Fernando Suárez's process with Costa Rica did not start quite well, as the former Ecuador coach was quite criticized by that country's press and several players stopped being called up.

During an interview with RCN Mundo, the paisa highlighted the work he has done with the local players he has given the opportunity.

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