By MARK LORENZANA There has been a lot of soccer news lately. Two columns ago, I wrote about a particularly bad stretch for Mexican soccer: how the Mexican Women’s National Soccer Team went winless in the recently concluded CONCACAF W championship despite hosting the tournament here in Mexico, about how Mexico’s U-20 National Men’s Soccer Team suffered a shocking defeat
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By MARK LORENZANA It hasn’t been a good stretch for Mexican soccer lately, and that’s putting it mildly. On the night of Thursday, July 7, the Mexican national women’s soccer team was dealt a painful loss, 0-3, by regional upstart Haiti in the group stages of the Concacaf W Championship. The crushing blow came several days after losing 0-1 to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) announced on Friday, July 8, its new home jerseys for the Mexican national team to wear at the 2022 World Cup, slated to take place in Qatar from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18. The new uniform of the national team is inspired by one of the main gods of the ancient Aztec
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By MARK LORENZANA The United States, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala will be the four representatives at the 2023 Under-20 World Cup of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in Indonesia. Mexico’s U-20 team will be left off that list after it suffered a shocking defeat to underdog Guatemala on Thursday, June 30, at
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By MARK LORENZANA The game was essentially over. Over in the sense that the stunned and dejected Celtics fans that filled the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, were only waiting for the final buzzer to sound so they could watch in agony as the visiting Golden State Warriors celebrated their fourth championship on the night of Thursday, June 16, at
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF The growing momentum of Latinas in the United States shows that these women will play a decisive role in the U.S. economic recovery, said Angélica Fuentes Téllez, one of Mexico’s wealthiest and most powerful women, in a recent interview with the Publifix news service. Fuentes Téllez, who, along with her ex-husband Jorge Vergara, is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 10 people were detained by authorities on Monday, March 7, in connection with their involvement in a brawl between opposing team fans at a soccer match in Queretaro over the weekend, according to that state’s Prosecutor’s Office. The detainees, all men, were arrested for alleged acts of violence during the Querétaro versus
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 26 people were injured on Saturday, March 5, when clashes between fans from opposing teams broke out in a soccer stadium in the central Mexican city of Querétaro. According to local authorities, at least 26 people were injured during the brawl, two of them critically. Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri, who visited some
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XINHUA Late game goals from Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie provided the United States an unexpected 2-0 victory over Mexico in Cincinnati on Friday, Nov. 12, allowing the team to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Mexico had begun the match brightly, with the United States’ Zack Steffen blocking several potential goals from its opponents. But the U.S. team
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XINHUA Mexico will be forced to play their next two home World Cup soccer qualifiers behind closed doors because of homophonic chants from fans, FIFA said on Monday, Nov. 1. The world football’s governing body also fined the Mexican football federation 100,000 Swiss francs ($110,000) for several incidents during World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Honduras in September. The ruling
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