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Mexico to Host 2011 U-17 World Cup

May 28th, 2008 | By: Alan | 1 Comment »

Mexico will be hosting its fourth World Cup. It hosted the U-20 World Cup in 1983 as well as hosting the World Cup in 1970 and 1986.
The women’s 2011 U-17 will be hosted by Trinidad and Tobago.

Life’s a Beach

May 10th, 2008 | By: Alan | No Comments »

The Mexican beach boys defeated France, who will host the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, 4-3 in the Saint Dennis La Réunion tournament.
Ricardo Villalobos scored three of Mexico’s four goals, and Oscar González contributed a goal of his own. Coach Ramón Raya leads the team.
Mexico has already qualified for the Beach Soccer World Cup [...]

New Coach by May 15

April 24th, 2008 | By: Alan | 2 Comments »

Ovaciones, a Mexican journal, reported today that during last month’s owners meeting, May 15 was set as a deadline to find a new coach for the National team. The journal also said that a confidential source within the commission has named Javier Aguirre, Jose Pekerman, and Raul Arias as the frontrunners for the position and [...]

Call up list for China

April 12th, 2008 | By: Andrea | 1 Comment »

Hugo Sanchez is gone. So now, how do we expect to do? Hopefully well. Chucho Ramirez seems to think that we’ll be fine with these players who he’s called up for the game against China on April 16th in Seattle. Remember though, it’s only a friendly.

Ding-Dong, Hugo’s Gone

March 31st, 2008 | By: Andrea | 1 Comment »

Well, it’s official. Hugo Sanchez is no longer the NT Manager as of today.

Mexico 2 - 1 Ghana

March 26th, 2008 | By: Alan | 3 Comments »

Highlights:

A couple of things to note about the game: almost every video on youtube about the game labeled it as Hugo Sanchez’ swan song. I think that Mexico played well, but I don’t know whether it was enough to save his job. However, this game did not have the full squad Hugo may have wanted, [...]

After Double Injury Jaime Lozano Called to National Team

March 24th, 2008 | By: Alan | 4 Comments »

The 28 year old Cruz Azul midfielder has been called up to the national team for the friendly against Ghana. Lozano is replacing Edgar Castillo who was replacing Carlos Vela.
Lozano has not been called to the national team since the 2007 Copa América. He will be joined by his Cruz Azul teammates Gerardo Torrado [...]

Update: Never Mind About Castillo

March 22nd, 2008 | By: Alan | No Comments »

Carlos Vela’s injury was confirmed and as a result he will not play for the Mexican National team for the friendly against Ghana. In his place, Hugo Sanchez has called on Santos defender Edgar Eduardo Castillo to replace Vela.
Castillo suffered an injury playing with Santos in their week 11 game against Pumas and will not [...]

The Ignored Ones

March 20th, 2008 | By: Andrea | 1 Comment »

A woman in sports is usually thought of as a spectator (unless she’s playing tennis or golf). In the men dominated sport of football the womens teams are hardly talked about. With a country’s hopes at their feet, it’s now the El Tri’s women who are expected to qualify for Beijing.

Lineup for Game vs. Ghana

March 20th, 2008 | By: Alan | 9 Comments »

Coach Hugo Sanchez has published the list of players called to the national team in their game against Ghana in London the 26th of March. Last time Mexico and Ghana met Guillermo Franco scored the only goal of the match to give Mexico the 1-0 win, the game took place on March 1, 2006 in [...]


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