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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I'm still waiting for Isaac Bzizuela, Jeronimo Amione, Edgar Pacheco, and Eric Torres to do anything meaningful.
Not contradicting you by saying they have done anything meaningful... but for the most part the thrtead is meant for busts, or players who fell short... too early to call these guys a failure. /p
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.
Perhaps, but mostly due to our own over-hyping of him. He is still 22, no players his age or younger are called for the upcoming friendly...Salcido started playing at 21 and debuted with the NT at 23 or so. /p
It´s not his age, its the fact that he´s shit now and totally out of shape. They aren´t calling up bench players in Leon no matter what the age.