Costa Rica's Alvaro Saborio celebrates his goal against Mexico during their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match at the national stadium in San Jose October 15, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Roger Benavides
(Reuters) - 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.
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