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2022 Costa Rican Cup
The 2022 Costa Rican Cup (known as ''Torneo de Copa 2022 Suerox'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 4th staging of the Costa Rican Cup, and the first edition since 2015, following a seven-year hiatus. The tournament was dedicated to Anthony Vargas, goalkeeping coach for Guadalupe who had died from a heart attack during a training session in October 2022, aged 29. The tournament featured all twelve teams from the Liga FPD plus four sides from the Segunda División de Costa Rica. The format consisted in a knockout tournament, starting from the Round 16 to the final, with all stages (including the final) being double-legged. Cartaginés, who entered the tournament as the most recent champions after winning the 2015 edition, won the cup by defeating Herediano in the finals. It is the third consecutive time that Cartaginés wins the Costa Rican Cup. Participating teams Sixteen teams will participate in the 2022 Costa Rican Cup. All twelve teams from the 2022–23 Liga FPD season: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deportivo Saprissa
Deportivo Saprissa is a Costa Rican sports club, mostly known for its football team. The club is based in San Juan de Tibás, San José, and play their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá. The team's signature colours are purple (burgundy) and white. It is the main team representing the capital, but with the distinction of being massively followed throughout the whole country and overseas. The club was founded in 1935 and has competed in the Costa Rican first division since 1949. The name of the team comes from one of the club's main founders, Ricardo Saprissa. One of the most popular nicknames for the team (''The Purple Monster'') can be traced back to 1987, when the Costa Rican newspaper '' Diario Extra'' gave the team the nickname during a derby, because of the club's enormous following. A reporter commented that the sea of fans in the stands at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá in Tibás wearing purple, and the tremendous noise they were generating, made him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yendrick Ruiz
Yendrick Alberto Ruiz González (San José, Costa Rica, 4 December 1987) is a Costa Rican professional football player who plays as a forward for Liga FPD club Herediano. He is the younger brother of footballer Bryan Ruiz. He made his international debut for Costa Rica on May 28, 2013, in a friendly against Canada. Honours Herediano * Liga FPD: Clausura 2013, Clausura 2015, Clausura 2016, Apertura 2018, Apertura 2019 * CONCACAF League: 2018 Individual * Liga FPD Top Scorer: 2014–15 Invierno, 2015–16 Verano, 2016–17 Invierno * CONCACAF League Golden Ball: 2018 * CONCACAF League Golden Boot (Shared): 2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ... References External links * 1987 births Living people Costa Rican men's footballers Liga Deportiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fernández
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Vega
Randy is a given name, popular in the United States and Canada. It is primarily a masculine name. It was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, Randolph, as well as Bertrand and Andrew, and may be a short form (hypocorism) of them. ''Randi'' is approximately the feminine equivalent of Randy. People with the given name A *Randy Abbey (born 1974), Ghanaian media personality * Randy Adler (??–2016), American bishop * Randy Albelda (born 1955), American economist *Randy Allen (other), multiple people * Randy Ambrosie (born 1963), Canadian sports executive * Randy Anderson (1959–2002), American wrestling referee * Randy Angst, American politician * Randy Armstrong (other), multiple people *Randy Arozarena (born 1995), Cuban baseball player * Randy Asadoor (born 1962), American baseball player * Randy Atcher (1918–2002), American television personality * Randy Avent, American electrical engineer * Randy Avon (born 1940), American politician * Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Pérez (Venezuelan Footballer)
Victor Perez or Víctor Pérez may refer to: *Victor Perez (Tunisian boxer) (1911–1945), Tunisian boxer **''Victor Young Perez'', 2013 French biographical film about Victor Perez *Víctor Pérez (Puerto Rican boxer) (born 1971) *Víctor Pérez (director) (born 1981), Spanish director, producer and digital film compositor *Victor Perez (golfer) (born 1992), French golfer *Víctor Pérez (weightlifter) (born 1953), Cuban Olympic weightlifter *Víctor Pérez (footballer) (born 1988), Spanish footballer *Víctor Pérez Varela, Chilean politician *Víctor Pablo Pérez (born 1954), Spanish conductor *Víctor Pérez Pérez, Mexican journalist murdered in 2014 *Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas Victor Manuel Pérez Rojas (17 October 1940 – 12 November 2019) was a Venezuelan Catholic prelate. Pérez Rojas was born in Venezuela and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He served as titular bishop of ''Tagaria'' and was auxiliary bisho ... (1940–2019), Venezuelan bishop ''See also'': ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asdrubal Gibbons
Asdrubal or Asdrúbal is a Spanish masculine given name which may refer to: * Asdrubal Bentes (1939–2020), Brazilian politician and lawyer * Asdrúbal Cabrera (born 1985), Major League Baseball player from Venezuela * Asdrúbal Chávez, Venezuelan chemical engineer and politician * Asdrubal Colmenarez (born 1936), Venezuelan artist * Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo (1922–2006), Uruguayan racing driver * Asdrúbal Padrón (born 1991), Spanish footballer * Asdrúbal Paniagua (born 1951), Costa Rican retired footballer * Asdrúbal Sánchez (born 1958), Venezuelan footballer See also * Hasdrubal Hasdrubal ( grc-gre, Ἀσδρούβας, ''Hasdroúbas'') is the Latinized form of the Carthaginian name ʿAzrubaʿal ( xpu, 𐤏𐤆𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤋 , , "Help of Baal"). It may refer to: * Hasdrubal I of Carthage was the Magonid king of Ancient ..., the original Latin form of the name, chiefly used for Carthaginian leaders {{given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Mora
Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: * Andrei of Polotsk ( – 1399), Lithuanian nobleman *Andrei Alexandrescu, Romanian computer programmer * Andrey Amador, Costa Rican cyclist * Andrei Arlovski, Belarusian mixed martial artist *Andrey Arshavin, Russian football player *Andrej Babiš, Czech prime minister * Andrey Belousov (born 1959), Russian politician * Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist * Andrey Borodin, Russian financial expert and businessman * Andrei Chikatilo, prolific and cannibalistic Russian serial killer and rapist * Andrei Denisov (weightlifter) (born 1963), Israeli Olympic weightlifter * Andrey Ershov, Russian computer scientist * Andrey Esionov, Russian painter * Andrei Glavina, Istro-Romanian writer and politician * Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), Belarusian Soviet politician and diplomat * Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Sancho
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mattus
William Mattus Vega (born April 17, 1964 in Barva, Heredia) is a former football referee from Costa Rica, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Japan and South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas .... As of 2022, Mattus is the last Costa Rican to officiate a match at a FIFA World Cup, as fellow countrymen have performed as assistant referees only. References William Mattus – referee profileat WorldFootball.net William Mattus – referee profileat Weltfussball.de 1964 births Living people People from Heredia Province Costa Rican football referees Copa América referees 2002 FIFA World Cup referees {{CostaRica-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurguens Montenegro
Jurguens Josafat Montenegro Vallejo (born 13 December 2000) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Albanian side Egnatia Rrogozhinë. Club career LD Alajuelense Growing up in Fray Casiano, Chacarita, Puntarenas, Montenegro played a lot matches on the beach along the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Montenegro left his home when he was 16 years old to move to the province of Alajuela to play for the academy teams of the LD Alajuelense in mid 2016, after the club discovered him.(VIDEO) JURGENS MONTENEGRO, EL DELANTERO QUE DESCUBRIÓ LA LIGA EN UNOS JUEGOS ESTUDIANTILES lda.cr, 13 September 2018 As revealed by Montenegro, he sometimes had to borrow money to go to train w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Murillo
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Ancient Greek, Greek (Septuagint): wikt:Ἀαρών, Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Knowledge of Aaron, along with his brother Moses, exclusively comes from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Bible and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinship, kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt (Land of Goshen, Goshen). When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the Slavery in ancient Egypt, enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman ("prophet") to the Pharaoh (). Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest (Judaism), High Priest of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
