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Friday, June 27, 2014

Costa Ricas Jorge Luis Pinto is a Latin American José Mourinho

Jorge Luis Pinto shares coaching methods and an acerbic tongue with the Chelsea manager and believes sex can drive his players to the World Cup quarter-finals

Few would have predicted that it would be Costa Rica, representing a country of only 4.8m people and with a modest football history, that would emerge from a group of three former world champions.

But Uruguay, Italy and England the latter to a lesser extent as they were already out when they faced Los Ticos seem to have underestimated the team and their colourful coach who is something of a Latin American José Mourinho. On Sunday they face Greece with a World Cup quarter-final place at stake.

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