The first of September. Harrison, New Jersey. Red Bull Arena goes wild as the crowd’s team runs over the USMNT. What was ostensibly supposed to be a home game turned into what felt like a 2-0 away loss in Costa Rica in front of a packed house of Costa Ricans. And that would turn out to be the major domino that fell before the US crashed out of World Cup qualifying.
Well, at least that’s the narrative.
In truth, that’s not really what happened.
There aren’t actually all that many Costa Ricans in the US.