[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Five MLS teams were placed in the groups for the first round of the 2012-13 Concacaf Champions League. Instead of four groups offour, there will be eight groups of three. The four American entrants — MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders — avoided Mexican teams in […]
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Santos Laguna reigns in Mexico
Santos Laguna won its fourth Mexican league title since the club’s founding in 1983 with a 2-1 win over Monterrey on Sunday for a 3-2 aggregate victory. The Clausura title follows Santos’ threerunner-up finishes in the previous four Mexican seasons. (The Mexican year is split into two seasons, Apertura and Clausura). Santos’ last title came […]
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Castillo, Corona and Garza celebrate playoff clincher
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Three Americans — Edgar Castillo, Joe Corona and Greg Garza — started for Tijuana in its 1-1 tie with UNAM that clinched seventh place and a berth in Mexico’s Torneo Clausura playoffs. Jose Torres‘ Pachuca also advanced to the quarterfinals. In Germany, Jermaine Jones received a yellow card in his sixth straight game — […]
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Monterrey repeats as champion
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Monterrey repeated as Concacaf Champions League champion with a 3-2 aggregate victory over fellow Mexican club Santos in the final.The Rayados won the first leg, 2-0, and trailed, 2-0, in the second leg before Neri Cardozo scored the deciding goal of the series in the 82nd minute to reducethe deficit. Argentine Daniel […]
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What They're Saying
“It was nothing prepared, just spontaneous. A goal is the most explosive moment in a match. I don’t see it as something bad. They are great friends.” — Club America president Ricardo Pelaez on Christian Benitez and teammate Matias Vuoso, who feigned a kissafter Benitez scored the winning goal in a 3-2 victory over Puebla. […]
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Suazo powers Monterrey past Santos
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Chilean Humberto Suazo scored both goals to give defending champion Monterrey a 2-0 win overSantos Wednesday in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final. Aldo De Nigris set up Suazo for the first goal in the 60th minute, and Suazo beatthree defenders to score the second goal in the 86th […]
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Gomez wants to give back to Santos fans
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] The last American teams exited in the quarterfinal stage when the Los Angeles Galaxy and Seattle Sounders both were eliminated, butthe Concacaf Champions League final between Santos and defending champion Monterrey has an American element. No American has ever been has a run abroad like HerculezGomez has had with 11 goals in […]
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Gomez helps sink Toronto FC
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] There is simply no stopping American Herculez Gomez. He scored two goals to help Santos ofMexico beat Toronto FC, 6-2, and send the last MLS team packing from the Concacaf Champions League, 7-3, on aggregate. The goals give Gomez at least one in each of the four games in the knockout phaseand […]
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Chicharito headed to Olympics?
Manchester United’s Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez could be one of Mexico’s three overage players at this summer’s Olympics, where men’s soccer is a U-23 competition in which teamscan include three “wild card” players. “A natural candidate, Chicharito. Everyone thinks of him, obviously,” said Mexico U-23 coach Luis Fernando Tena afterhis team booked a ticket to the […]
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American-born Ponce leads Mexico to title
[OLYMPIC QUALIFYING] You could call Miguel Ponce another one who got away, but the American-born midfielder was the heroof Mexico’s 2-1 win over Honduras in the final of the Concacaf Olympic qualifying tournament with the winning goal in overtime. Ponce, who also scored in Mexico’s semifinal win overCanada that clinched a berth at the London […]