Abstract
In 1921 the first national soccer team was established in Costa Rica with the objective of participating in the Centennial Games, to be held in Guatemala to commemorate the first century of Central American independence. The undefeated triumph of the adult men’s team, la Sele (short for “Seleccion Nacional” or “national men’s team”), transformed soccer into a “patriotic game”, as from then on the discursive construction of Costa Rican national identity would be fundamentally linked to the continual sequence of “nationalist dramas” staged by this representative of the nation-team. With the approach of the second centennial celebration of Central American independence, the link between nationalism and soccer remains undeniably valid, although as time passes it has acquired new nuances, modalities, and uses.
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