San salvador at dusk on a dusty soccer field in san salvador last april, three girls sat together on a bench. They are among 12 teams playing for the chance to advance to the championship at levis stadium in santa clara, ca on. But mexico have just finished playing in fifas confederations cup that ended on july 2nd. If you follow latin american history, this book, and the entire series that it is a. Dani, 12, and sofia, 16, regularly played soccer with the boys.
The national teams first match was played in september 1921, when they were invited to. Former salvadoran soccer president gets eight years in prison. After two days of group stage action, the 2017 gold cup is in full swing. Its a match mexico is expected to win easily, boosting its chances of. Mexico national football team alltime record wikipedia. The first recorded game took place on 16 july 1899 between players from santa ana and san salvador.
San antonio will host a concacaf confederation of north, central america and caribbean association football gold cup doubleheader in the alamodome on july 16 featuring curacao vs. Compare form, standings position and many match statistics. Also, mexico won their two meetings in gold cup, but the most recent one has to be dated back to 2002. All three of mexicos goals came off lengthy righttoleft passes. Existing tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during a 1970 fifa world cup qualifier.
The stats are composed of fifa world cup, fifa world cup qualifying, fifa confederations cup, concacaf gold cup including concacaf championship, concacaf cup, summer olympics, and copa america matches, as well as international friendly matches. In a goalline incident, henry romero grabbed jozy altidore by the nipple. The list shown below shows the mexico national football teams alltime international record against opposing nations. The group led by osorio has a perfect score so far in the competition, as they won every game without any jolt. Soccer cup to be held in mexico the next year began and during these, the. Mexico will face jamaica, a 20 winner over curacao, in a group c match thursday in denver. The war began on 14 july 1969, when the salvadoran military launched an attack against honduras.
Interestingly, none of the 16 meetings between the two sides since 1970 ended in a draw. Create a betting account now and win some money wagering on the 2017 gold cup. Mexico enter the gold cup as the defending champion. Mexico undoubtedly entered their first 2017 gold cup group. Get live scores, stats, inplay odds and commentary. View full match commentary including video highlights, news, team lineups, player ratings, stats and more. The question appears to be more how much mexico will win by, and ladbrokes are offering 2120 on a mexico win to nil betting against both teams to score will. Mexico undoubtedly entered their first 2017 gold cup group stage. Salvadorean football had its origins in the city of santa ana, on a field called campo marte. Hungary was a very good team, in fact it had already played two world cup finals in 1938 and 1954 losing both of them. The soccer betting tip is offered by liverpool at the bookmaker unibet.