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Group D
MEXICO
World Cup participations: 12
Greatest World Cup achievement: quarter-finals (1970, 1986)
Mexico is almost always at the world cups - the Concacaf group is
not the most difficult one ...
Not too many players of Mexico are known here - Bolton's Jared Borgetti
Rafael Marquez of Barcelona, the rest is playing in the home country
- like e.g Francisco Fonseca the dangerous striker star of Cruz Azul.
The argentinian Ricardo La Volpe is the coach and he is relatively
optimistic - even more after the strong performance at the Confed Cup last year.
The mexican defence around Marquez and super-goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez should
not concede too many goals and in the easy group this should be enough for reaching
the last 16.
Exciting will be the duel with Portugal for the group winner.
But afterwards presumably Argentina or Holland are threatening and if
the Mexicans can then go further?
The odds on Mexico as world cup winner were quite high
- 34.0 at Betandwin.
For a bet on group winner Mexico you get 2.40.
Mexico
Nickname Los Tricolores, El Tri
Association Federación Mexicana de
Fútbol Asociación
Coach Ricardo Lavolpe
Most caps Claudio Suárez (172)
Top scorer Carlos Hermosillo,
Luis Hernández (35)
First International
Guatemala 2 - 3 Mexico
(Guatemala City, Guatemala; 1 January, 1923)
Largest win
Mexico 13 - 0 Bahamas
(Toluca, Mexico; April 28, 1987)
Worst defeat
England 8 - 0 Mexico
(London, England; May 10, 1961)
World Cup
Appearances 12 (First in 1930)
Best result Quarterfinals, 1970 and 1986
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances 8 (First in 1991)
Best result Winners, 1993, 1996,
1998, 2003
World Cup Squad Mexico
This is the official world cup squad -
you can find here all the
world cup players
for Mexico
Goalkeepers
Oswaldo Sanchez
Jose de Jesus Corona
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa
Defenders
Rafael Marquez
Carlos Salcido
Ricardo Osorio
Francisco Javier Rodriguez
Andres Guardado
Claudio Suarez
Mario Mendez
Jose Antonio Castro
Midfielders
Gonzalo Pineda
Pavel Pardo
Gerardo Torrado
Luis Perez
Sinha
Ramon Morales
Jesus Arellano
Rafael Garcia
Strikers
Omar Bravo
Francisco Fonseca
Guillermo Franco
Jared Borgetti
Other World Cup Teams
Group A
Germany
Costa Rica
Poland
Ecuador
Group B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago
Sweden
Group C
Argentina
Cote d'Ivoire
Serbia and Montenegro
Netherlands
Group D
Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal
Group E
Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic
Group F
Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan
Group G
France
Switzerland
Korea Republic
Togo
Group H
Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia
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