Costa Rica

Costa Rica is painful. Mention the country Costa Rica to any Swedish person and he will not associate it with beaches, jungle or national beauty, which normally is the case. Instead, Costa Rica is remembered for the humiliation that occurred on June 20 1990, when the tiny country's football team took a 2-1 victory against the Scandinavians, knocking Sweden out of the World Cup in Italy. It was in fact so unexpected and so surprising, with such high stakes at the same time, that the loss can only be compared to one other game in the country's football history (Japan-Sweden 3-2 in the 1936 Berlin Olympics).

I have now arrived to Costa Rica, the arch enemy.