Mexico Football Fans

Mexico began 2017 in positive fashion after a 1-0 win over Iceland.

This victory helped banish memories of the goalless draw with Panama in the final World Cup qualification game. The win over Iceland came as a result of a solitary goal by Alan Pulido in the 21st minute. Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio has been pressing a lot of importance on the defending of the national team. Recent results have been excellent with the team managing three clean sheets in the last five matches. On the disappointing note, Mexico have not been able to score more than six goals in these 5 games.

Mexico skipper Rafa Marquez reached twenty years playing for the national team on Sunday when they played Iceland yet the veteran defender says the world cup is his target.

Another motivation factor for the player is that he wants to be the third player to ever feature in five World Cup editions.

Former Barcelona defender Rafael Marquez has responded to the plan of the President of the United States Donald Trump to build a wall on the United States border.

Mexico strongly opposed the plan of the President of the US but the country’s national team captain brought in a new angle.

Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio has faced plenty of criticism since he was appointed in October 2015.

Even recently, he was branded as ineffective by the former coach Miguel Herrera. However,Osorio has been quietly carrying out his work and the results have followed. The biggest positive for Mexico came in the form of a historic victory against the United States in a World Cup qualifying game. Apart from the recent victory in the CONCAF play-offs a year ago, Mexico have an extremely poor record against the United States.

Now the whole euphoria about being appointed manager of the United States men’s national team should be over for recently appointed man Bruce Arena.

The coach’s managerial gift and hands-on experience definitely tipped the scale in his favour as US Soccer sought for a replacement for former coach Jurgen Klinsmann. The urgency in the situation did not help.

The Mexican national football team has to play their first match of the 5th round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against United Stated on November 11 at the MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus and this is a venue that the Mexican national side has never been able to overcome United States.

Juan Carlos Osorio has recently talked about this approaching match as the Colombian coach said:

Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio said that he expects a tough game against the United States when both teams meet on the 11th of November.

The match will count for the final round of the World Cup qualifiers.

Former Mexico national team coach Miguel Herrera believes that the national team will not be able to do significantly better under the regime of his replacement Juan Carlos Osorio.

Appointed as the head coach of the Mexican national team in October 2015,Osorio has overseen an inconsistent period when it comes to results. Mexico have failed to make it beyond the last 16 stage of any World Cup tournament in the past. Their only appearance beyond this stage of the competition came before 1994. Under the leadership ofHerrera, Mexico experienced a lot of problems in the dressing room and it was a reason behind their early departure from the World Cup 2014.

Mexico aim to continue their perfect run in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers when they take on Honduras on Tuesday as the international break continue to run.

There is little at stake having qualified for the ‘Hexagonal’ stage of the process, win a flawless run so far.

Lionel Messi made a U-turn on his earlier decision to abstain from football on the international front for his country, after internal Argentine crisis and frustrations made him declare his early retirement.