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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For many outsiders, the violent clash between opposing worker groups at the Cruz Azul cement plant in Tula, Hidalgo, on Wednesday, April 27, which left eight people dead and nearly a dozen others injured, came as a shock. But for those who follow Mexican trade union politics, it was just the culmination of a long-simmering internal dispute.
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By KELIN DILLON A total of 17 teams from Liga MX, Mexico’s top football division, were hit with sanctions of 177.6 million pesos by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) for alleged monopolistic practices and putting a salary cap on the league’s women’s vision. The clubs sanctioned include América, Pachuca, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Santos Laguna, Tigres, Toluca, Pumas, Monterrey, Necaxa, Atlante
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Ever at odds with the media — both national and international –Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Wednesday, June 23, that he will soon be adding a new weekly segment to his daily press conferences, in which he will list those publications and broadcasters that he considers to be presenting “false
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO The New Normal Has Arrived The political debate carried out last week in Mexico over how to go about bringing a solution to the economic standstill caused by the covid-19 pandemic posed a medical, political and economic quagmire. On the one side, there was the voice of Mexican Public Health Undersecretary epidemiologist Hugo López-Gatell announcing on Friday,
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