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July 10th, 2009 | By: Andrea | 8 Comments »

As opposed to previous games involving Mexico, this one was finally interesting. In the 2nd game of the Gold Cup, Mexico met up with Panama in Houston, Texas to play a 1-1 draw. As they say, “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” The saying held true as the game exploded with red cards.

Surprisingly, Mexico started out playing decently. Panama got in a few times in the opening minutes, but nothing very dangerous.

In the 10th minute Giovani Dos Santos received the ball from Alberto Medina who had gone up the left field on a counterattack. Dos Santos latched on and came up against Penedo, but sent it to Sabah who scored and made it 1-0 to Mexico.

Then Panama leveled the game in the 29th minute when Blas Perez overpowered Johnny Magallon and Jose Antonio Castro to shoot past Ochoa and make it 1-1.

Both teams ended the game with 10 men after Luis Miguel Noriega and Armando Gun were sent off after some pushing and shoving.

Nothing too spectacular happened in the second half, as both teams were less active than the first part.

However, in the 79th minute trouble ensued when Javier Aguirre stuck out his foot at Ricardo Phillips as he was chasing a ball near the Mexican technical area. There were some shoves and the Mexican manager and Panamanian player were both sent off. Phillips refused to leave, and stopped the game for a little over 10 minutes.

Mexico will now move on to Glendale, Arizona to play Guadeloupe on Sunday at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Guadeloupe has yet to lose a game and is currently top of group C.

Tags: 2009, Gold Cup 2009, Mexico Team News, Panama, Review, Video

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Comments

By Ernie | July 10th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

just when i tought id seen everything bad that could possibly happen to mexico..this game comes on

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By Pseudinho | July 10th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

How come they always pull stuff like this? It almost makes me ashamed to admit that I’m not only Irish and French American but Mexican American too. No national team I’ve seen is as poor at conducting themselves then the Mexican National Team.

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By ricky | July 10th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

The people that need to be ashamed are the panamanians who for a little over 25 minutes did nothing but run the clock with fake injurys and were not willing to get off the field to resume play, that game was hurtful to see and I was a disgrace to futbol

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By ricky | July 10th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

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By Tom Cope | July 11th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Bush league stuff. I haven’t seen the game, only these highlights, but the coach should be banned for 6 months or so. His foot was nowhere near the ball, he was fustrated and kicked at the player. That has to punnished.

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By Daniel | July 12th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Mexico is facing different problems for the time being. The Tri needs scores like Borgeti and Hernandez, to mention two former great scorers. However, the main problem is that Mexico’s greatest enemy is the local sporting press. They are not good sporting journalists that analyse a game but a bunch of vulgar and hysterical scribblers who write extra sporting events and lack ethical principles.

The case of coach Javier Aguirre is another sad story being manipulated by the Mexican press. He made a mistake in the game against Panama: raised his foot to stop a loose ball over the line, but instead of the ball he touched a Panaman player. Aguirre apologized and Concacaf blamed him with three games.

No doubt that Aguirre deserved the punishment and he is the first to accept that.

The incredible of the story is that a unanimous Mexican sporting press agree that Aguirre tried to attack the player.

Mexico needs to overcome a great sporting problem by giving better education to its sporting journalists, especially in the area of ethics.

By asdf | July 13th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Pseudinho your such a dumb self-hater.

On another note, how about the last game. It was a huge improvement.

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