[WOMEN’S WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Mexico is off to Europe to begin final preparations for the Women’s World Cup. Coach LeoCuellar‘s squad will be one of the youngest at the tournament with six players 20 years old or younger. It features seven Mexican-Americans, including the Stanford duo of Alina Garciamendez and Teresa Noyola. Mexicowill play Sweden […]
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Fans love 'Chicharito' everywhere
Javier Hernandez isn’t just big in Mexico and Manchester. He’s big in Charlotte, N.C., where he scored two goals in Mexico’s 5-0 win over Cuba to give himfive goals in two games at the Gold Cup. “It’s very important that he’s playing for Manchester United,” says former Mexico star Enrique Borja, nowa Mexican soccer official. […]
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Concacaf Should Quash the Mexican Drug Suspensions
What a farce! Five Mexican national team players suspended for taking a banned drug. Well, not quite. Suspended because a drug test found traces of the banned drug clenbuterol in their urine. Not for the first time, the Byzantine convolutions of the anti-drug regulations, in search of the impossible (drug-free sports), have given us instead […]
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Five Mexican players suspended for doping
[GOLD CUP] Playing without five players, who have been suspended by the Mexican soccer federation (FMF) after they failed a drug test taken on May 21, Mexicowent out and beat Cuba, 5-0, for its second win in two games at the Gold Cup. Sinha, Francisco Rodriguez,Edgar Duenas, Christian Bermudez and Guillermo Ochoa are the five […]
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Mexico erupts in second half
[GOLD CUP] Javier Hernandez scored three goals in the last half hour to give Mexico a 5-0 win over El Salvador before asell-out crowd of 80,108 at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. Efrain Juarez opened the scoring in the 55th minute and Aldo De Nigris made it 2-0 three minutes later before “Chicharito” put the game […]
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Sundhage's glass is half full
[USA-MEXICO WOMEN] Lauren Cheney‘s goal in stoppage time gave the USA a 1-0 win over Mexico in its final internationalmatch before heading to Germany for the 2011 Women’s World Cup. The Americans thoroughly dominated the game, finishing with a 34-4 shot advantage, but until Cheney’s strike from distance theycould not beat 16-year-old Ceci Santiago in […]
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Group A: Tri is class of field
[GOLD CUP PREVIEW] Mexico, the defending Gold Cup champion, should have no trouble winning Group A. Perhaps the most intriguing match will be the Tri’s thirdgame against Costa Rica, coached by its old boss, Argentine Ricardo La Volpe. El Salvador has an American accent to its team with the inclusion of two U.S.born- and bred […]
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Canada salvages draw against Ecuador
[GOLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Canada, which will open against the USA at the Gold Cup on Tuesday in Detroit, got a stoppage-time goal from Tosaint Ricketts, his first international goal, to earn a 2-2 tie with Ecuador at BMO Field on Wednesday night. Ecuador was caught off guard when Ricketts scored off a quickJulian de Guzman […]
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Future is now for 'Chicharito'
[BARCELONA-MAN UNITED] How popular is Javier Hernandez in Mexico? Television giant Televisa will delay its broadcast ofMexico’s match against Ecuador in Seattle Saturday afternoon so it can show the UEFA Champions League final between Barcelona and Chicharito’s Manchester United. When he left Chivas deGuadalajara for Manchester 10 months ago, Nike erected a billboard that read: […]
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Cortes' title-winning golazo
[VIDEO PICK] UNAM Pumas clinched its seventh Mexican league title in grand fashion — with a golazo from 21-year-old forward Javier Cortes, whobroke the tie with Morelia by dancing through a crowded defense before stroking the ball past keeper Federico Vilar. The 77th minute strike gave Pumas a 2-1 win in thesecond leg of the […]