!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.

Central America against Mexico

Today at 9:30 PM EST, three Football matches will be held in Central America and the Caribbean that will decide the fate of the former Footballing giant Mexico, and the able Panamanian Football team. The much hated Mexican team (in Central America that is) will be facing Costa Rica at their National Stadium in San Jose, for the last chance to the half ticket to Brazil 2014. But getting that ticket as we may say won’t be easy, since they depend on the Panamanian team to lose to the USA and the Honduran team to lose to Jamaica, so in a way it’s out of their hands but of course they put themselves in that situation by not defeating teams which they themselves consider inferior. The Jamaicans will be playing for honor at the National stadium against Honduras, since they are already eliminated but will be sure to give a good fight. One thing is for sure, the Central Americans are united in the feeling of hate towards the Mexican Football team, and Mexican journalists that in their opinion, give the Mexican team more credit than they deserve. Mexican sports journalists have gone to the extreme of even claiming that the Costa Rican team sold themselves to the Hondurans, in the game in which they lost 1-0 at San Pedro Sula in Honduras, and such comment not only outraged the Hondurans but also the Costa Rican coach Pinto, and the Costa Rican players. The Central Americans show such animosity against the Mexicans to say the least due to the lack of respect exerted on them by the Mexicans for many decades in which Central American players were made a fool of by the Mexican sports media. I for sure will watch one game on cable TV and the two others on separate laptops, so as not to miss a thing.