2022 World Cup Qualifying - Mexico vs Canada, October 7th, 2021

The Concacaf Champions League has really helped our players dismantle the mystique of the Azteca. Jonathan Osorio has played big games and scored there before with his club team. It’s no surprise he scored for Canada, he loves playing there.

It’s not the 90’s anymore where our players see this intimidating place once every few years. Our players get tons of exposure to playing in Central America now in MLS.

I think it will be harder for the Mexican team playing in Edmonton in November than it is for Canada at the Azteca. The weather can be absolutely brutal in the Canadian Prairies in November. I don’t know how any opposition can prepare for the conditions. Maybe they get lucky and it's 5 degrees Celsius, but maybe instead it's also -10c and snowing and windy. The Canadian players and their fans will embrace these conditions as a spectacle even if our players don't usually play in these conditions.

 

Edmonton Elks weather...

Dang gonna be tough.

 

Imagine caring so much about a game against Canada early in qualifiers tht you take the time to multi quote a person and write a screed with multiple paragraphs about how wrong someone is.

I want puros guapos on my national team. Puros Arteagas chingao.

 

Longest of replies..

Someone gotta put in the work..

Lol..

 

Si, y que se mueran los feos toditos...

 

The polémica is not gonna generate itself bops...

 

Azteca also sold its soul to the NFL. Replacing 20k seats near the pitch with high end roller seats has made it like playing in the Star Wars Galactic Senate building of floating platforms.

 

Poor Chucky.

 

It's been a long time since Azteca adds more pressure to Mexico than the opposing team. At least since the Chepo era.

It has the altitude and nothing else. Not even the heat because of the time they play. I might say that while Mexico City is not that hot, the sun there feels different, never understood it until I went to a Pumas game, and even as a fan it burns more than Monterrey at 40°C.

We need a change, maybe Monterrey or Guadalajara. Even Pachuca or Toluca if they want to have the altitude advantage, but Azteca and the people that go there don't help the team anymore.

 

Is the altitude even helpful anymore? Many players don’t play in Mexico anymore.

 

Nah if anything we look worst because most teams have more speed than us. Kinda backfires at this point when you factor in fatigue. The altitude used to negate the pressing aspect of our opponents.

 

Nah, the younger generation doesn't about care about futbol as much or creating a hostile environment because "they'll get in trouble"

Canada will never be subjected to an environment like this ever

 

@Sanchito be like

 

Suuuuuure,,,,

Sanchito.

 

I love him.

 

Por lo que le hace a tu cueva.

 

Agua? Ha huevo...nos dio un campeonato.