By MARK LORENZANA Powerhouse Club América, which had been making life miserable for the rest of the Liga MX teams in this current tournament, was booted out by lower-ranked Deportivo Toluca FC on the night of Saturday, Oct. 22, while playing no less in its own home territory — Mexico City’s famed Azteca Stadium — in front of thousands of
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By MARK LORENZANA After Club América and the Monterrey Rayados both punched their tickets to the Liga MX semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 15, CF Pachuca and Deportivo Toluca FC followed suit on the evening of Sunday, Oct. 16, to complete the protagonists that will compete for the two finals slots. Toluca fended off Santos Laguna, 2-1, while Pachuca eliminated the
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By MARK LORENZANA Club América and the Monterrey Rayados both punched their tickets to the Liga MX semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 15, after dispatching their respective opponents — Club Puebla and Cruz Azul — in convincing fashion. América defeated Puebla 5-1 on the evening of Saturday, in a match that came after the Mexico City-based club similarly humiliated their foe,
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By MARK LORENZANA Club América is already one of the most popular — and most decorated — soccer clubs in the history of the Liga MX, but the Mexico City-based team added another feather to its cap: It just notched its ninth consecutive win, 2-1, on Saturday, Sept. 10, against home team Club Necaxa at the Victoria Stadium in the
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By MARK LORENZANA Bad news for Mexican soccer fans: Mexican striker Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, who plays in La Liga in Spain, was hurt in a training session with his club Sevilla, suffering an injury to his ankle as well as a fibula fracture. Corona went under the knife on Thursday, Aug. 18, his soccer club reported, which means Tecatito will
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XINHUA The Cruz Azul soccer team ended a 23-year Mexican top flight title drought on Sunday, May 30, by completing a 2-1 aggregate victory over Santos Laguna in the Liga MX Clausura final. Having lost the first leg 1-0 at home, on Thursday, 27, Santos Laguna drew level overall through a 37th-minute strike from Chilean midfielder Diego Valdes at Estadio
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XINHUA Mexico’s Azteca Soccer Stadium, the stage for the 1970 and 1986 FIFA World Cup finals, is set to reopen to the public after a 14-month shutdown due to the covid-19 pandemic. The 88,000-capacity venue will host the Liga MX quarterfinals featuring tenants Club America and Tijuana against yet-to-be-determined opponents on May 15 and 16. “It is with great pleasure
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