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Diario Extra – 40 Costa Rican soccer players in European cups

QUESTION: Francisco Rodríguez Siles (Desamparados, San José). I would like to know who are the Costa Rican footballers who have performed in European cups in the history of UEFA.
ANSWER: Forty Costa Ricans (36 men and four women) advanced to the major UEFA events, in the Champions League, the Europa League, the Super Cup and the now-defunct Intertoto Cup.
Costa Rica premiered in 1990 with Ronald González and Hernán Medford, at Dinamo Zagreb, in Yugoslavia. But they were eliminated from the UEFA Cup by Atalanta of Bergamo, Italy.
Keylor Navas appears with the most matches in European cups, with 75 appearances. He did so in the Europa League (12 games), the Champions League (61 games) and the European Super Cup (two games).
One step down appears Shirley Cruz, with 62 games in the Women’s Champions League from 2007 to 2017. The first 37 with Olympique Lyonnais and the remaining 25 with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). This is the list of 40 Ticos in European glasses.
WITH 75 GAMES: Keylor Navas (Levante, Spain; Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and PSG, France).
WITH 62 GAMES: Shirley Cruz (Olympique Lyon; and PSG, from France).
WITH 48 GAMES: Bryan Ruiz (FC Twente, Holland; and Sporting Club, Portugal).
WITH 37 GAMES: Christian Bolaños (Odense and Copenhagen, Denmark).
WITH 31 GAMES: Esteban Alvarado (AZ Alkmaar, The Netherlands).
WITH 28 GAMES: Junior Enrique Díaz (Wisla Krakow, Poland; Bruges, Belgium; and Mainz 05, Germany).
WITH 25 GAMES: Winston Parks (Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia; Slovan Liberec, Czech Republic; Baku, Azerbaijan; and Politehnica Timisoara, Romania).
WITH 23 GAMES: Óscar Duarte (Bruges, Belgium).
WITH 21 GAMES: Joel Campbell (Olympiacos, Greece; Arsenal, England; Villarreal, Spain; and Sporting Club, Portugal).
WITH 19 GAMES: Cristian Gamboa (Rosenborg, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Celtic, Scotland).
WITH 16 GAMES: Celso Borges (Fredrikstad, Norway; and AIK, Sweden) and Bryan Oviedo (Copenhagen, Denmark; and Everton, England).
WITH 15 GAMES: Randall Azofeifa (Gent, Belgium).
WITH 12 GAMES: Paulo César Wanchope (West Ham United and Manchester City FC, England) and Mauricio Wright (AEK, Greece).
WITH 11 GAMES: Marco Ureña (Kubán Krasnodar, Russia; Brondby and Midtjylland, Denmark).
WITH 10 GAMES: Michael Barrantes (Aalensund, Norway) and John Jairo Ruiz (Red Star, Serbia; and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine).
WITH 8 GAMES: Jimmy Marín (Hapoel Beer Sheva, Israel).
WITH 7 GAMES: Walter Centeno (AEK, Greece) and Roy Miller (Rosenborg, Norway).
WITH 6 GAMES: Jorge Alonso Solís (Brann, Norway; and OFI Creta, Greece) and Álvaro Saborío (Sion, Switzerland).
WITH 5 GAMES: Ronald Gómez (OFI Crete, Greece; and APOEL, Cyprus).
WITH 4 GAMES: Wilson Muñoz (OFI Crete, Greece), Roy Myrie (Gent, Belgium), Randall “Chiqui” Brenes (Khazar Lankaran, Azerbaijan), Douglas Sequeira (Tromso, Norway), Jonathan McDonald (Kalmar, Sweden), Bismark Acosta (Brann, Norway), Mayron George (Midtjylland, Denmark) and Priscilla Chinchilla (Glasgow City, Scotland).
WITH 3 GAMES: Luis Marín (Maccabi Netanya, Israel), Carolina Venegas (Sporting Club, Portugal) and Melissa Herrera (Girondinos Bordeaux, France).
WITH 2 GAMES: Hernán Medford (Dinamo Zagreb, Yugoslavia), Rónald González (Dinamo Zagreb, Yugoslavia), Steven Bryce (Anorthosis Famagusta, Cyprus) and Pablo Herrera (Aalensund, Norway).
WITH 1 GAME: Freddy Álvarez (Shkupi, North Macedonia).

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