[DALLAS CUP] The U.S. under-19 national team fell to its Mexican counterpart, 1-0, in Sunday’s marquee match on the opening day of the Super Group at Dallas CupXXXI. The Americans finished the game with 10 players after losing defender Chad Barson to a red card. Next up for ThomasRongen‘s Yanks: matches against two foreign teams […]
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Gomez makes it seven goals in last nine games [VIDEO]
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Herculez Gomez scored his seventh goal of the season, all in the last nine games, to lead Puebla to a2-1 win over Club America Sunday in Mexico’s Torneo Bicentenario. The Las Vegas product is now tied for second place in the league behind only rising Guadalajara star Javier Hernandez. Mexico national team star […]
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Mexico no match in 2010 home opener
[U.S. WOMEN] Forward Amy Rodriguez scored her first international goal in more than a year and a half, and Shannon Boxx and Lauren Cheney added goals on either side of halftime for the USA in a 3-0 win over Mexico Sunday at theUniversity of San Diego’s Torero Stadium. The Americans outshotMexico, 21-2, in their 2010 […]
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Mexico stymied in Charlotte
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] In Mexico’s final match before Coach Javier Aguirre selects 18 domestic-based players to enter aspring training camp for the World Cup, the Tri had to settle for a 0-0 tie with Iceland before a crowd of 63,227 in Charlotte, N.C. Mexico’s best chances came on headers by Miguel Sabah and Adolfo Bautista, […]
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UNAM completes another Mexican sweep
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] For the second year in a row, the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League will be an all-Mexican affair. UNAM made sure of that,getting two goals from former Chivas USA striker Juan Francisco Palencia and crushing Marathon of Honduras, 6-1, to avenge the only loss by a Mexican team inthe two-leg quarterfinals. […]
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'Chicharito' does it again for Mexico
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, Mexico’s 21-year-old sensation from Guadalajara, scored in the 69thminute to give Mexico a 2-1 win over North Korea Wednesday in Torreon and improve his tally to four goals in three World Cup warmups this year. Former Chicago Fire star Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored the game’s first goal on a 20-yard […]
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Eriksson eyes Ivory Coast World Cup job
Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson, who flopped as Mexico’s national team coach, could be headed back to the World Cup for the third straight time. Eriksson, who coached England in 2002 and 2006, wants the Ivory Coast World Cup job turned down by Guus Hiddink following the ouster of Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic.
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Struggling Pachuca ends skid
[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Having lost three straight Mexican league games — two by 3-0 scores at home — struggling Pachuca needed all the breaks it couldget to survive its Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series with Comunaciones. The Guatemala City club had two players sent off two minutes apart in the second half, and Pachuca went […]
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U.S. girls lead Tri into Concacaf U-17 semifinals
[MEXICO] Six U.S. youth club stars — three from Southern California and three from North Texas — started for Mexico when it beat Canada, 1-0, to advance toThursday’s semifinals at the Concacaf Under-17 Women’s Championship in Costa Rica. The win set up a date with Costa Rica, while Canada must face the USA in the […]
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Rongen names U-20 squad for Dallas Cup
[U.S. UNDER-20 NATIONAL TEAM] Philadelphia Union midfielder Amobi Okugo and Houston Dynamo midfielder Francisco Navas are among the 20 players Coach Thomas Rongen called up for the U.S. under-20 national team (players 19 andunder in 2010) for the expanded Super Group at the 2010 Dallas Cup. Former U.S. U-17 Victor Garza, Orozco’s teammate at Tigres, […]