Ten minutes into the second half, Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto wanted referee Joel Aguilar of El Salvador and match commissioner Victor Daniel of Grenada to suspend the game, but U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann made a case for playing on.
"As immigrants who lack documents, we often accept being underpaid because we feel vulnerable, " said Manuel Aguilar, a 51-year-old who has washed cars since emigrating from El Salvador in 1994.