MONTERREY, Mexico – The match for Third Place in the 2022 Concacaf W Championship will take place this Monday evening at the Estadio BBVA in Monterrey, in which Costa Rica will face Jamaica for the fifth time in a CWC match.
After reaching the semifinals and sealing their tickets to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Costa Rica and Jamaica will play their final match in Monterrey to try to earn the third place position, a match that has been played since 1991, and will qualify the winner to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games playoffs.
Costa Rica is no stranger to getting far in CWC competition, having been runners-up, third place and fourth place finishers in past instances. This year, Las Ticas will play for the fourth time to try to finish in Third Place in the tournament.
La Sele has shown a new type of football in Concacaf, led by Head Coach Amelia Valverde. Cristin Granados, Captain Katherine Alvarado and Raquel Rodriguez also have taken Costa Rica to be the team with the best goal effectiveness in the group stage. They will attempt to keep breaking boundaries and get as far as possible before heading to Australia/New Zealand.
Jamaica will play for the third time in the CWC Third Place match, having had that same exact result back in 2018 and a fourth place finish in 2006. Those two finishes serve as the best performances the Caribbean side have earned in all their participations.
With legendary players like Captain Khadija Shaw (3 goals in 2022 CWC), Drew Spence, Allyson Swaby and, the star thus far of the Reggae Girlz, GK Rebecca Spencer, who leads the tournament in saves with 18, Jamaica will try to show why they were the first Caribbean nation to reach a World Cup and keep pushing their limits game after game.
When it comes to being familiar with each other, Costa Rica and Jamaica know what it is like, having faced each other four times before, with Las Ticas leading the all time series with a 3W-0D-1L record.
With one more match in Monterrey, these teams will look to win and show themselves in their last 90 minutes of this CWC, proving how their style of football is one of the best in the region.
