Mexico men’s national team

  • LAFC

    LAFC can cement status as best ever with MLS Cup win

    Los Angeles FC is in dangerous territory. October will define if it’s remembered as the most ambitious project in the history of MLS or as another good team with an impeccable campaign. If LAFC doesn’t culminate 2019 with the MLS Cup, it’s going to be a statistic, a precedent,...
  • 2019 concacaf gold cup

    2019 Concacaf Gold Cup schedule and groups released

    It’s Gold Cup time once again, with the USA hosting the bulk of the tournament, joined by Jamaica and Costa Rica, which will both host two games each. Here’s how the groups ended up: GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C GROUP D 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 🇭🇳 Honduras...
  • Carlos Vela

    Carlos Vela: Supremely talented rebel soul

    Carlos Vela is feeling good and in a glorious state as a footballer. Vela’s present is bright like the beginning of LAFC‘s 2019 season. The team from Los Angeles is undefeated and leads the MLS Western Conference. They average three goals per match and concede one every 108 minutes....
  • Sizing Up Tata Martino

    Sizing up Tata Martino’s 1st couple games for El Tri

    Gerardo Martino left a good feeling in his first two games as manager of El Tri. The Mexican men’s national team won both of their matches against Chile and Paraguay with Tata on the bench. Every time there has been a new foreign coach in charge of El Tri,...
  • Giovani Dos Santos

    Giovani Dos Santos: So much unfulfilled potential

    Once upon a time, in the land of the Inca culture, a talented young man was disputing a U-17 World Cup. Born in Mexico but with Brazilian blood in his veins, Giovani Dos Santos impressed the soccer world with his speed, dribbling and the educated touch he possessed. His...
  • Tata Martino

    Opinion: Mexico got it right with Tata Martino hire

    Gerardo “Tata” Martino was presented as the new coach of the Mexican national team. Martino, 56, arrives in Mexico City after a glorious 2018 MLS season with Atlanta United. During his two years in Atlanta, Martino achieved the MLS Cup and generated a 1.82 points per game average in...
  • Juan Carlos Osorio

    Juan Carlos Osorio: From Brooklyn Italians player to World Cup manager

    An NPSL team has an alumnus playing a huge role in this summer’s 2018 World Cup. That’s right, Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio played for the storied NPSL franchise Brooklyn Italians between 1993-94. Osorio has risen to international fame after Mexico’s shocking defeat of defending world champions Germany. The...
  • Group F

    Germany, Mexico hope to escape Group F

    The German Myth The fame of Germany in soccer is well known, so well known that there’s conventional wisdom around the German mysticism. Carlos Salvador Bilardo, a World Cup winner with Argentina in 1986 as a manager, provided today’s quote: “You need to see the Germans showered and on...