Mexico VS New Zealand

The day has arrived when Mexico will prove whether the metamorphosis it went through, was what it needed in order to put its bad performance of the last year in the past. Missing are the Mexican players that play in European teams due to their low performance and the Mexican coach “El piojo” Herrera will rely instead on his former America FC players. New Zealand which is missing its captain and star player for this game at the Azteca stadium will no doubt give it it’s all in order to beat Mexico at their own turf. The match will be held at Mexico City’s Azteca stadium at 3:30 PM EST.

!Mexico Revives!

Mexico beat a modest Finnish team 4-2 for Herrera’s first official win with the Mexican team, and therefore demonstrated that the team is recovering some of their former luster. The rebuilt Mexican team seems to have what it needs to beat a weak New Zealand team and gain the needed ticket for the world cup.  The New Zealand team which lost to the national team from the UAE 2-0, and barely tied with Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 recently seems to have their work cut out for them against the Mexicans in their next game on November the 13th.

Third Place Stolen From The Dominican U20 Team

It was suddenly announced that the third place qualification was taken from the Dominican Republic, and given to the Cayman Islands home country of the president of Concacaf, which created a wave of anger and disbelief in the Caribbean Football community and not only in the Dominican Republic which was directly affected by the arbitrary decision. The Dominican Republic passed to the U20 women’s quarterfinals for the Caribbean Football Union, by defeating Cuba 2-1, and by way of a better goal difference since Cuba was defeated 5-1 by Jamaica giving the Dominican Republic the third place of the group. The Dominican Republic’s Football Federation known as Fedofutbol will be filing an official complaint in regards to the sudden decision.

Mexico VS New Zealand

Mexico’s problems are not over yet, since they must defeat New Zealand on the 13^th and the 20^th of November, in order to make it to the world cup. The statistics are not comforting at all for the quickly stitched together Mexican team, that went through a top to bottom restructuring face in the past few weeks since according to the FIFA.com page the two teams are pretty equal in strength as past matches can show.  The New Zealand team may have the upper edge since they are a close nit team that has faced decent teams recently and seems to be a good match if not an obstacle to a limping Mexican team.

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/headtohead/team1=mex/team2=nzl/index.html

Mexican Embarrassment

Mexico will have an opportunity to face New Zealand for the chance to go to the world cup and redeem themselves, but not due to their accomplishments. Team USA  AKA “The Stars and Stripes Team” beat Panama 3-2 yesterday and due to this deed, Mexico can still hold on to the hope of avoiding more embarrassment than it has already been subjected to, by beating New Zealand and making it to Brazil 2014. On other notes Jamaica fought Honduras for an honorable tie 2-2 at the Kingston national stadium in Jamaica in a hard fought game. Jamaica has not been defeated by Honduras at their national stadium, and they sure proved that they wanted that statistic to remain unchanged. It sure was a game where both teams fought and suffered to the bitter end, but accepted the end results which were all that Honduras needed to a direct pass to their third world cup.