[OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN] Giovani Dos Santos and Carlos Salcido, who started onMexico’s 2011 Gold Cup championship team, are among the 18 players picked to represent Mexico in men’s soccer at the 2012 London Olympics. Salcido, who plays for Tigres, was one of threeover-age selections along with Jesus Corona of Cruz Azul and Oribe Peralta of Santos, […]
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Concacaf power rankings: Panama is surprise
The first of three double-dates got the Concacaf World Cup semifinal round underway, and early results indicate that at least two of the three groups — from which six teams will advance to theHexagonal — could go down to the final day of qualifying in October. Mexico, not surprisingly, and Panama, somewhat surprisingly, were the […]
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Result in St. John favors USA
[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING … Concacaf] The USA didn’t get the win it was looking for in Guatemala, but it got a break in the other Group A match in ConcacafWorld Cup 2014 qualifying as tiny Antigua & Barbuda took two points from Jamaica with a 0-0 tie in St. John. The results left the […]
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World Cup 2014 qualifying this week …
[CONCACAF] Day 2 of the semifinal round of World Cup 2014 qualifying takes place Tuesday in Concacaf. Perhaps the biggest match will take place in Toronto,where Canada can take a big step toward moving into next year’s Hexagonal with a win over Honduras, a 2-0 loser to Panama in its opening game. The Catrachos won […]
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Lots to play for on Concacaf Day 1
[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING COUNTDOWN] For the United States and Mexico, perennial favorites to qualify for the World Cup, the only question on Day 1 of thesemifinal round of Concacaf qualifying is how many goals will they win by when they host minnows Antigua & Barbuda and Guyana from the Caribbean zone, respectively. But Friday’s […]
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Five MLS entrants set for group play
[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. […]