Cristian Esteban Gamboa - International Appearances


The outstanding Costa Rican player obtained 79 international caps with his National Team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Born: 24-10-1989
Country: Costa Rica
Caps:	79	(W29-D23-L27 – GF98-GA90 – %51.27)
Goals:   3  
Age First Cap: 20 yr  94 d   26- 1-2010 vs. Argentina 2-3
Age Last Cap:  31 yr  20 d   13-11-2020 vs. Qatar 1-1
National Team Career: 10 yr 291 d


Caps   Date 	Venue	 	Opponent       Score 	Competition

 1   26- 1-10	San Juan	Argentina 	2-3	
 2   26- 5-10	Lens    	France  	1-2	
 3    5- 6-10	Bratislava	Slovakia	0-3	
 4   11- 8-10	Asunción	Paraguay	0-2	
 5   14- 1-11	Cd. de Panamá	Honduras	1-1	UNCAF Cup
 6   16- 1-11	Cd. de Panamá	Guatemala	2-0	UNCAF Cup
 7   21- 1-11	Cd. de Panamá	Panama   	1-1 [1]	UNCAF Cup
 8   23- 1-11	Cd. de Panamá	Honduras	1-2	UNCAF Cup
 9   12-10-12	San Salvador	El Salvador	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
10   16-10-12	San José	Guyana  	7-0	World Cup Qualifier
11   14-11-12	Santa Cruz	Bolivia 	1-1	
12    6- 2-13	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
13   22- 3-13	Commerce City	United States	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
14   26- 3-13	San José	Jamaica 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
15    7- 6-13	San José	Honduras	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
16   11- 6-13	Cd. de México	Mexico  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
17   18- 6-13	San José	Panama  	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
18   14- 8-13	Santo Domingo	Dominican Rep.	4-0	
19    6- 9-13	San José	United States	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
20   10- 9-13	Kingston	Jamaica 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
21   11-10-13	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
22   15-10-13	San José	Mexico  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
23   19-11-13	Sydney  	Australia	0-1	
24    5- 3-14	San José	Paraguay	2-1	
25    2- 6-14	Tampa   	Japan   	1-3	
26   14- 6-14	Fortaleza	Uruguay 	3-1	World Cup
27   20- 6-14	Recife  	Italy   	1-0	World Cup
28   24- 6-14	Belo Horitzonte	England 	0-0	World Cup
29   29- 6-14	Recife  	Greece   	1-1 [2]	World Cup
30    5- 7-14	Salvador	Netherlands 	0-0 [3]	World Cup
31   10-10-14	Muscat  	Oman    	4-3	
32   14-10-14	Seoul   	South Korea	3-1	
33   13-11-14	Montevideo	Uruguay  	3-3 [4]	Copa Antel
34    6- 6-15	Buenos Aires	Colombia	0-1	
35   11- 6-15	León    	Spain   	1-2	
36   27- 6-15	Orlando 	Mexico  	2-2	
37    8- 7-15	Carson  	Jamaica 	2-2	CONCACAF Cup
38   14- 7-15	Toronto 	Canada  	0-0	CONCACAF Cup
39   19- 7-15	East Rutherford	Mexico  	0-1	CONCACAF Cup
40    5- 9-15	New Jersey	Brazil  	0-1	
41    8- 9-15	San José	Uruguay 	1-0	
42    8-10-15	Liberia 	South Africa	0-1	
43   13-10-15	Harrison	United States	1-0	
44   13-11-15	San José	Haiti   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
45   17-11-15	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
46   25- 3-16	Kingston	Jamaica 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
47   29- 3-16	San José	Jamaica 	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
48   27- 5-16	San José	Venezuela	2-1	
49    4- 6-16	Orlando 	Paraguay	0-0	Copa América
50    7- 6-16	Chicago 	United States	0-4	Copa América
51    2- 9-16	Port-au-Prince	Haiti   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
52   11-11-16	Port of Spain	Trinidad/Tobago	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
53   24- 3-17	Cd. de México	Mexico  	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
54   28- 3-17	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
55    8- 6-17	San José	Panama  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
56   13- 6-17	San José	Trinidad/Tobago	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
57    7- 7-17	Harrison	Honduras	1-0	CONCACAF Cup
58   11- 7-17	Houston 	Canada  	1-1	CONCACAF Cup
59    1- 9-17	Harrison	United States	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
60    5- 9-17	San José	Mexico  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
61    7-10-17	San José	Honduras	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
62   11-11-17	Málaga  	Spain   	0-5	
63   14-11-17	Budapest	Hungary 	0-1	
64   23- 3-18	Glasgow 	Scotland	1-0	
65   27- 3-18	Nice    	Tunisia 	0-1	
66    3- 6-18	San José	N. Ireland	3-0	
67    7- 6-18	Leeds   	England  	0-2	
68   11- 6-18	Brussel 	Belgium 	1-4	
69   17- 6-18	Samara  	Serbia  	0-1	World Cup
70   22- 6-18	Sankt-Peterburg	Brazil  	0-2	World Cup
71   27- 6-18	Nizhny Novgorod	Switzerland	2-2	World Cup
72    7- 9-18	Goyang  	South Korea	0-2	
73   11-10-18	S.Nicolás/Garza Mexico  	2-3	
74   16-10-18	Harrison	Colombia	1-3	
75    5- 6-19	Lima    	Peru    	0-1	
76   16- 6-19	San José	Nicaragua	4-0	CONCACAF Cup
77   20- 6-19	Frisco  	Bermuda 	2-1	CONCACAF Cup
78   29- 6-19	Houston 	Mexico   	1-1 [5]	CONCACAF Cup
79   13-11-20	Hartberg	Qatar   	1-1	

[1] Costa Rica won 4-2 on penalty kicks.
[2] Costa Rica won 5-3 on penalty kicks.
[3] Costa Rica lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
[4] Costa Rica won 7-6 on penalty kicks.
[5] Costa Rica lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.


Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
     79   29   23   27   98-  90      81      51.27


Types of Matches

Friendlies		31
World Cup Qualifier	25
CONCACAF Gold Cup	 8
World Cup		 8
UNCAF Cup		 4
Copa América		 2
Other Tournaments	 1

Total 			79

Goals:
Cap 10	1 goal
Cap 44	1 goal
Cap 48	1 goal

Total   3 goals

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