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This season the number of Costa Ricans playing in Europe increased considerably and a large part of them had action this Sunday.
The first to enter the scene was Kenneth “Huevito” Vargas with Heart of Midlothian FC from the Scottish first division, who faced Kilmarnock for the second round of the local championship.
Huevito entered the final call for the mejenga, at minute 68 he entered the substitution field and generated good comments among the fans. With this score they are now in third position with four points two behind the leader, Celtic.
Hearts’ next game will be this Thursday against Rosenborg for the third round of the Europa Conference League.
Néstor Monge was left out of the squad in the victory of Differdange 03 in Luxembourg 1-3 against Racing.
The one who stole the show was Manfred Ugalde with Twente from the Netherlands who started the Eredivisie season against Almere City.
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Ugalde entered the headline, played the entire game and his participation was key for his team to leave the victory, thrashing 4-1.
In fact, the tico among the most outstanding actions that he had in the match, was the assist in the second score of Twente.
With the first three points in the bag, he turns to the local league page to focus on the game against Riga from Latvia next Thursday for the third phase in the Conference League, at the moment he has a 2- 1.
Speaking of Riga, this Sunday he also had action for the local league and Anthony Contreras took part in the club’s 1-0 victory against Metta / LU.
The Costa Rican entered as a substitute at minute 73 for Marko Regza and was on the field for about 20 minutes, when the game was already won by his club from minute 44.
After this victory, Riga continues in the second position of the general classification with 64 points, the same as the leader Rigas FS, but the Tico team has the advantage that it has a pending game, in case of winning or drawing it would become the pointer of the Latvian league.
Rachid Chirino made Israel’s Maccabi Netanya squad in the last group game of the Toto Cup, but watched his club’s 3-0 win against Bnei Sakhnin come from the bench.
In Netanya, after this golden victory, they managed to qualify for the quarterfinals after finishing second in group A.
This cup is played by 15 teams, in the first phase they are divided into three groups of 5 squads each, the first and second place of each group and the two best third place go to the quarterfinals, in the next few days it will be defined who will be Maccabi’s rival.
Chirino will once again have the opportunity to play next Friday, August 25, against Maccabi Bnei Raina in the local league.
We close the list with the Bregalnica Stip from Macedonia, which Tico Fabricio Venegas, the brother of Johan “Cachetón” Venegas from Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, had minutes in his club’s defeat against Makedonia GjP.
Venegas entered at minute 69, when at that time the match was tied at zero, but nine minutes later the goal fell that took away their hope of scratching at least one point.
Bregalnica now sits in seventh position in the overall table with three points, three behind leader Tikves.
In Macedonia, the champion of the tournament qualifies for the previous rounds of the Champions League and the runner-up for the Conference League.
2023-08-13 23:26:18
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