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The Pura Vida Times COSTA RICA´S LEGENDARY GOALIE KEYLOR NAVAS RETIRES FROM THE NATIONAL TEAM AND ENDS HIS CONTRACT WITH FRENCH LEAGUE CHAMPION PSG. Volume 1, Issue 3 August 2024

1# Keylor Antonio Navas Gamboa is better known as Keylor Navas. 2# He was born on 15 December 1986 in Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica. 3# His Birth Sign is Sagittarius, and he stands 1.85 m tall (6.1 ft.). 4# He holds nationality from two countries, Spain and Costa Rica.

5# He is a Costa Rican professional footballer in the position of Goalkeeper. 6# He was the Goalkeeper in Costa Rica´s outstanding 2014 Brazil World Cup Team. 7# Married to Andrea Salas and has a stepdaughter Daniela, and two sons, Mateo y Thiago. 8# He has played with top tier teams like Saprissa (CONCACAF team of the 20th Century ) , Spanish clubs Albacete, Levante and Real Madrid, French club Paris Saint-Germain, Nottingham Forest (on loan) and the Costa Rican national team where he defended the goal during 114 matches starting in 2008 and ending this year against Argentina. 9# Navas joined Real Madrid in 2014 for €10 million. 10# Current (Dec. 2023) TransferMarkt.com value is 2 million Euros.

Keylor Navas´s most impressive achievements! (3rd on the All-Time Cups won by a Goalie list with 29 in total)

Champions League: Keylor Navas won the UEFA Champions League on 3 consecutive occasions with Real Madrid in seasons 2014-15, 2015-16 y 2016-17 as the lead goalie. 1. FIFA Club World Cup: Champion of the FIFA Club World Cup 4 times with Real Madrid in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018 as the lead goalie. 2. Three FIFA World Cup participations with Costa Rica in 2014, 2018 and 2022 including the impressive 8th Place Finish for Costa Rica where it went undefeated in regulation time and only lost against the Netherlands team in the overtime goal shootout. 3.

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