Articles tagged with "mexico"
Weekend Watch Recap: Brazilian Boys Lose Poorly
By Laurie | December 10th, 2007A few quick recaps of some of the games you may have been watching this weekend: US U-17 2-0 Brazil U-17 in the Nike friendlies. The ...
Olivier Monterrubio Refuses Toulouse
By Daryl | September 22nd, 2007Lens were trailing Toulouse 1-0 today when Olivier Monterrubio punished a sloppy clearance with this unstoppable volley. The point keeps Lens just above the Ligue ...
1 man, 3 matches
By Bruno Romani | September 12th, 2007Three matches to follow in my return to the blog. 1)In China, the Brazilian girls played a bad first-half against New Zeland, but conducted by Marta, ...
Weekend Watch: Beware of Flying Frenchmen
By Daryl | September 7th, 2007The world of domestic football takes a back seat to its international cousin this weekend. But not everywhere. You can still get your domestic ya-yas ...
A Team Goal for the ages
By Bob | September 4th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=UJq4ANEhCZ0[/youtube] It is a week for players to exchange their club shirts for their shirts of their nation which means we'll likely see lots of pictures ...
Dos Santos Makes His Debut
By Daryl | September 2nd, 2007Big week for Barcelona's Mexican starlet Giovani dos Santos. On Wednesday the 18 year old attacking midfielder got his Spanish citizenship, which makes a big ...
SuperLiga Final: LA Galaxy v Pachuca
By Bob | August 29th, 2007The final chapter of the inaugural SuperLiga will be written on Wednesday evening when the LA Galaxy play host to Pachuca at the Home Depot ...
Expect a not so super SuperLiga Final Crowd
By Bob | August 28th, 2007Before the SuperLiga competition between clubs from MLS and the Mexican League began last month I was reluctant to fully embrace it. It seemed ...
Brazil Announces the Squad to Take on US and Mexico
By Bruno Romani | August 24th, 2007Dunga announced on Thursday the squad that will be facing the US and Mexico in September. Yes, again we will have Doni, Maicon, Fernando, Vágner ...
Dwayne De Rosario Scores a Facial, Pachuca advance
By Bob | August 15th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4ALfkafkY[/youtube] What were we just saying about the Superliga? Oh yeah, it is the greatest thing since sliced bread (Side note: what makes sliced bread ...
The State of the Superliga at the Semifinals
By Bob | August 14th, 2007The grand experiment known as the Superliga has reached the semifinals stage, which seems like as good of a time as any to take stock ...
AROUND THE LEAGUE (Superliga Edition)
By Dave Martinez | July 26th, 2007In the absence of any new Red Bull news (and since my pregame will be up shortly), here is the AROUND THE LEAGUE report, SuperLiga ...
The Start of the SuperLiga
By Bob | July 24th, 2007Traditions have to begin somewhere. Tuesday night marks the opening of the newly created SuperLiga tournament. Featuring four teams from MLS and four ...
Club America - What Do You Know?!?!?!
By Andy | July 14th, 2007Chelsea take on Mexico's Club America in the Disney Friendship Cup at the Stanford Stadium, San Jose, California in the early hours of Sunday morning ...
Anfield Banter: More Heinze, Hicks' tease, Hammill loaned, Moyes whines, Smicer goes home, & G'day God
By Brian | July 12th, 2007* Though not one game nor one goal nor even one tourney a player makes (including Freddy Adu, you muppets), but if you're Gabriel Heinze, ...
On the Other Hand, Maybe I'm an Idiot
By Trent | July 11th, 2007I stand by my take that the Copa America was underwhelming through the second round. But the next round and the semi-finals have been ...
Hate To Say It, But...
By Trent | July 9th, 2007...is this Copa America sucking? In the interest of full disclosure, the two teams I root for in the Copa America, Ecuador and the USA, were ...
The Countdown for the Departure of Dunga Has Started!
By Bruno Romani | June 27th, 2007There’s no way around it. In Brazil, football and the economy never do well at the same time. If they do happen, there’s no politics. ...
Copa America Is Here!
By Trent | June 27th, 2007Hey, football's not gone for the summer. Silly goose, the Copa America is underway in Venezuela. Often described as the European Championships but, ...
Thoughts on Blanco
By Tom | June 26th, 2007By the start of next week, Cuahtemoc Blanco will be a member of the Chicago Fire. He won't play for us until after Copa America, ...
CONCACAF GOLD CUP: Hamburg beats Stuttgart to Title
By Jan | June 24th, 2007It's the off-season and I have to spread out my more relevant posts wisely so that I can bridge the time gap until the Bundesliga ...
Transfer Talk: Bathez says Hola and Adios to Necaxa, Fernando Torres on the Market
By Bob | June 12th, 2007Monday was a classic example of all that is good and bad about the summer transfer period. We learned from a French magazine that ...
Paraguay nets late winner
By John | June 6th, 2007They say Mexico does not lose at the Azteca. Paraguay did not get the memo. Oscar Cardozo put a brilliant finishing touch on ...
Mexico easily dispatches Iran, next faces Paraguay
By John | June 4th, 2007Friendlies rarely offer up any drama. But that was not the case Saturday night in San Luis Potosi. The drama wasn't about the rematch ...
Chivas USA Shirts Taking over Mexico
By David | June 1st, 2007You heard it right. While partying with the Legion last Saturday, I was talking with one of the guys there and he said the last ...
Hugo makes his roster official for Gold Cup
By John | May 29th, 2007Hugo Sanchez turned in his list for the Gold Cup last week, but none of us were privy to the names until this evening when ...
Nery looks good in Green
By John | May 22nd, 2007Mexican born, Uruguayan reared, and current Greek League dynamo, Nery Castillo reported to Mexican National Team duty yesterday, much to the amazement of most, except ...
America Wins 3rd Clásico in a row, Will Meet Pachuca in Finals
By John | May 21st, 2007Another grueling week for America, another obstacle overcome. After a goalless draw vs. Santos with mostly reserves on Wednesday, America defeated Chivas twice in ...
When will Blanco arrive? Will he save Dave Sarachan from having his head placed on a stick - a scientific study.
By Tom | May 21st, 2007This weekend, Mexico coach Hugo Sanchez announced his 'preliminary' squads for the Gold Cup and Copa America tournaments. Blanco is, unsurprisingly, in the squad. ...
A Name to Remember: Carlos Vela
By Bob | May 18th, 2007Rare is the example of a Mexican international playing in the English Premier League. Jared Borgetti became the first to play in England's top ...
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