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Ian Mork - Belize Head Coach
"Glad that we were able to prove to ourselves most importantly and to everyone what type of football we can play so it was good to see the team show up today. Things didn't go our way completely but I'm proud of the players."

Ian Gaynair - Defender, Belize
"It's unfortunate that we had to get beat 6-1 for us to show the world that we can play football but at the end of the day I feel good about my team and my country."

Everal Trapp - Defender. Belize
"We played damn great - better than the first game after we took 6-1 we came out and we showed the world that we could play football."

Elroy Smith - Defender, Team Captain Belize
"These kinds of loss really hurt worse when it's 0ne-nil. Like I said the man didn't intentionally do that but these are things that happen."

Dalton Eiley - Sub-captain, Defender, Belize
"I made one simple error of leading with my right foot instead of my left foot. I led with my right and I over reached and it touched my shin guard and it slipped in. It was an unfortunate break."

Evan Mariano - Defender, Belize
"Costa Rica didn't beat us, we beat ourselves because that one auto-goal and that was it. We got a penalty and they didn't call it and that's how the game goes and we have to bounce back and we never know what could happen with the next game."

Reporter
"Now, right at the very end of the game there you all had an unbelievable opportunity to equalize, you must be so proud."

Ian Mork
"Yes, very proud. We really needed to get a point out of this game though - three points would have been great but we knew that we needed to get a point to increase our chances to try and advance."

Travis 'Burger' Lennan
"What happened was the guys were challenging with the ball and when the ball came it was because it was already close to my face and that is why I pushed it towards the goal. If I was running coming to meet the ball then I would have caught it good but it just came in front of my face - I thought the guys would have bucked it and they missed it and that's how I got it, so they chipped it and I took it cross back but I didn't push it enough - the breeze was blowing hard. I didn't get it in full power like how I would buck usually."

Reporter
"What's your feeling about Dion McCauley going doing just before half time? It appeard from our vantage point and maybe we are a little bias or a lot bias but we thought that he was muscled down - what do you feel?"

Ian Mork
"I think it was a penalty and I think we need some breaks like that. It's not easy for us and against the US I thought they called a penalty with a handball that didn't exist but we can't worry about that. We have to create chances and we have to take advantage of them and we're not going to blame the referee but we definitely need breaks."

Dion McCauley - Striker, Belize
"If it was against us I think that they would have definitely called a penalty against us because the reaction of the fans and the people in the stadium told the whole story that it should have been a penalty."

Michael Salazar - Striker, Belize
"Right now it's just unlucky - some calls that should have been for us they got away with for example the penalty."

Ian Gaynair
"From I was growing up I've been playing with the National Team, from I was 16, and we're always the underdog. They always give the other team the advantage over us and we are used to it because at the end of the day it's football we're playing. Just like how we can help them out with their match fixing - I think they should be more fair than that because if it was a penalty then give us the penalty. If we are to qualify and go further then let us go further and stop the politics thing in football."

Woodrow West - Goalkeeper, Belize
"I feel a little bit down because I know we could have won the game and we got a penalty that the ref didn't call. Just because they don't respect Belize like that we didn't get that penalty."

Ian Mork
"We have to go on to the next match now and think about three points from Cuba."

Elroy Smith
"We just have to work hard this match against Cuba - I know that we could get a victory."

The Costa Rican Coach spoke favorably about Belize after the game. His team narrowly beat Belize a few months ago in the Copa Centroamerica, and Saturday's Gold Cup win was off an own goal. He said he respects the Belize side.

Jorge Luis Pinto - Coach, Costa Rica
"It was not an easy game for us, it's not like people were saying that Belize doesn't know how to play. They are a very good team; they gave us a lot of hard time. I think at the beginning we were rushed a little bit to cross the ball on the field. On the second time we did the same and happily we got the goal. We wanted to score more goals but it didn't work out because that team is not that easy. Definitely Belize knows how to defend themselves and they were able to disrupt the rhythm of the game and also the referees allowed that to happen. I cannot believe that in the first half they only had two minutes and the second half - four minutes and we wanted to play but the other team was able to disrupt the rhythm and sometimes it looked like they didn't want to play. They are not a team that they just throw around the ball, they know how to play."