“It wasn’t great,” said U-23 USMNT head coach Jason Kreis after his young team beat a tough Costa Rican side 1-0 in the 2021 Concacaf Olympic Qualifying tournament. “It was an important result for us but I would say that we would have hoped to have gotten that result in a little bit of a better fashion. I think we would have hoped that we could have been better on the ball and made better decisions and maintained the tempo of the game better.”
In the 35th minute of play in sun-baked Guadalajara’s 60-year old Estadio Jalisco, a streaking Sammy Vines brought down a long pass from centerback Mauricio Pineda along the left sideline.