Former medium Bryan Ruiz, who represented Sporting, was named interim selector of Costa Rica, after the dismissal of Argentine coach Fernando Batista, without victories in the six games played, announced today the Costa Rican Football Federation (FCRF).
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28/09/2026
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“ O former national team player and technical director Bryan Ruiz will temporarily take over the team’s command to face the remaining games of Costa Rica in the League of Nations,” said the ‘ticos’ in a statement.
Bryan Ruiz, 41, will debut on Thursday, with a meeting in Nicaragua on the third and penultimate day of Group A of the League of Nations of North, Central and Caribbean (CONCACAF).
The Costa Ricans occupy fifth place, of access to the maintenance play-off, and have not yet scored on this international break, after losing in the reception to Curaçao (4-3), in which they wasted three goals of advantage, and before Haiti (2-0), in a match played in Jamaica.
Third most international footballer in the history of Costa Rica, with 147 meetings, scored by 29 goals, between 2005 and 2022, Bryan Ruiz played three World Cups, one Cup America and six Gold Cups by the main team of the ‘ticos’, with which he won a Central American Cup in 2014.
The former medium succeeds Fernando Batista, who overcame a draw and five defeats in seven months in Costa Rica, leaving it practically out of the final quarter of the CONCACAF League of Nations and further away from direct access to the Gold Cup of 2027.
Formed in Alajuelense, in which he began and finished his career as a player and debuted as a coach, Bryan Ruiz represented the Belgians of Gent, the Dutch of Twente and PSV Eindhoven, the English of Fulham or the Brazilians of Santos and snatched a League Cup and a Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup in three seasons by Sporting, between 2015 and 2018.