Costa Rica lose Saborio
Costa Rica's World Cup hopes suffered a major blow on Thursday when striker Alvaro Saborio was ruled out of next month's finals with a broken bone in his foot.
Saborio suffered the injury in a closed-door training session on Thursday morning and coach Jorge Luis Pinto later told a news conference his first-choice forward would miss the entire tournament.
Costa Rica face England, Italy and Uruguay in Group D in Brazil.
"After hearing the doctor's opinion and talking with the player we have to face up to the reality - Alvaro will not be at the World Cup," said Pinto.
"We hope he recovers enough to at least be able to travel to Brazil with us. I feel really sorry for him."
Pinto said he would not bring in another player given he has yet to cut his provisional squad down to the final 23.
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