People who we thought were gonna light up el Tri

Most of the players mentioned here were young prospects that never quite panned out. Examples of this kind are to be expected. But, other players I found to be even greater disappointments because they seemed to have consolidated their places.

You know, I think there are some serious parallels between Fernando Arce and Jaime Lozano, they were a bit older than most of the players mentioned in this thread and had both managed to establish themselves in the domestic league. Both of them were lighting it up for El Tri in eliminatorias and copas (Arce in the cycle for the 2010 WC, Lozano in 2006 WC cycle)-- I had serious hopes in both cases that they would make a move across the pond.

Both of them seemed to peak too early and failed to even make the world cup squad, with little fanfare or controversy. They had precipitous drops in form and, despite having been key components of the national squad, were hardly missed.

That, if you ask me, is more disappointing than a Villaluz, Pedro Pineda or other young up-and-comers that never managed to do squat.

(Maybe you include Miguel Zepeda w/ Arce and Lozano as well, but he was considerably younger in the run-up to the 2002 WC)

You forgot Siscarios del Golfo and mis tres animales de Michuacan. lol!

Correa especially. He looked very good around 06-07.
Antonio Rios is another one, although he's still young.

They always looked average to me. Those guys fall into the good club players but not good enough to be NT material category.

Correa kept Matias Fernandez quiet when Pachuca won the Sudamericana, he also did a very good job of shutting down Diego when Mexico beat Brazil at Copa America in 07. I also thought he would do a lot better with the NT

Well I didn't expect them to be phenoms, but with Torrado and Castro aging, I expected them to step up and be candidates to replace them.

This. That was when Fernandez' stock was the highest too.

After the Brazil volley, I thought Toño De Nigris (RIP) would be the 9 we wanted, or at least a good NT option, and he can still light it, but Omar Arellano so far.

Cantors Honduran sidekick was talking about how Arellano in his opinion has plateaued and wont be the player people hoped he would at this point anymore.

I agree with him. He hasn't showed any kind of improvement since he got to Chivas.

Sad but true. I was hoping Cruyff and Co. would teach him something, but no...he's the same. BTW, Cantor's partner isn't Hounduran is he? He is the better of the two.

Dunno bout anyone else but I always thought he was from Argentina from the way he talks.

Sadovenik? I thought he was Peruvian

He is.

Really?
By the time he got a call, he was way in the decline.

Don't know why anyone would have expect anything from him

lol its been like a few months barely tho...

Whatever the fack he is, I can't stand him. Sounds like someone's squeezing the air out of him with every sentence he says.

Correa is a great one. Was really playing well with Pachuca and as been said, was key in Copa America 2007 and then fell off the face of the earth clubwise and country. A similiar case happened with Fausto Pinto although I never expected him to make it with the NT, but clubwise.

Still I think Omar Arellano could be the prime guy. He popped up before Chicharito and with that generation of great players like Vela and Dos Santos. Like I said that game against Venezuela before the 2009 gold cup happened and Vela scored the first, Dos Santos scored his first 2 goals and Arellano the last one. I though it was a new generation and for both of Dos Santos and Arellano this was the first of many goals with the NT. I never thought that it would be 2012 and that would still be the only goal Arellano scored with the NT.

Those foot injuries really ********ed with Pinita's head. He hasn't recovered mentally from them, yet.

lol

I'm still waiting for Isaac Bzizuela, Jeronimo Amione, Edgar Pacheco, and Eric Torres to do anything meaningful.

I think Pacheco fits the bill.

Curtidores was established in 1928 and the name makes sense regionally. Playing in León ("la capital del calzado" in Mexico), the team name pays homage to all those who work in the leather and shoe industry locally. The verb "curtir" means to process raw animal hide into malleable leather for shoes, belts, etc.
Also, let's not forget that in 1999 Curtidores won the right to play in Primera, but that same year Puebla was dropped to Segunda. Not wanting to do that, Puebla owners bought recently ascended Curtidores, changed the name to Puebla and voila!, Puebla never had its team play in Segunda. Of course, Curtidores disappeared from León, but it has recently reappeared and still plays its games at La Martinica.