They definitely have talent. The only teams I would really worry about are Paraguay and Argentina, and the sub-Saharan African teams.
Grupo A: Grecia, Corea, Mali y México. Grupo B: Paraguay, Ja'pon, Ghana y Italia. Grupo C: Argentina, Serbia y Montenegro, Túnez y Australia. Grupo D: Costa Rica, Marruecos, Irak y Portugal Playing against the Host team aint too good. And Mexico allways has problems against the African teams. Good thing we open against the Koreans which we should be able to beat..
Pfft, we have the talent. Home teams always have an advantage, but that doesn't mean they fully utilize it. Look at Portugal's opener in the UEFA. Si se puede.
Si se puede!! Grecia le gano a Portugal en la Euro y Mexico le ganara a Grecia en los Olimpicos. Sera dificil, pero llegar a las medallas nunca es algo sencillo. Ganando minimo tres partidos ya estamos en las medallas (hay dos de bronce).
I believe Iceland lost all of their games in that tourney Grecia has a good league miles ahead of Iceland and they shouldnt be underestimated and you know the reff calls will go their way as the host team allways get special treatment. I am confident in Mexicos U-23 talent all im saying is that lets not discard the oponents because they are not traditonal squads. the games are won on the field. Aguante U-23 lets see Lucho Perez lead this squad to the finals..
Iceland never hosted any WC-17 tourney. I think you people mean Finland, who hosted the 2003 and went out in the first round.
i just heard in Los Protagonistas that Lavolpe called up Zinha from Toluca to reinforce the Olympic Team. Zinha is also going to wear #10, which i dislike.
Lista de Seleccionados a los juegos Oympicos 01. José de Jesús Corona - Portero Atlas 02. Cirilo Saucedo Portero - León 03. Guillermo Ochoa - Portero América 04. Francisco Javier Rodríguez - Defensa </B>Guadalajara</B> 05. Aarón Galindo - Defensa Cruz Azul 06. Ismael Rodríguez - Defensa </B>Monterrey</B> 07. Mario Pérez - Defensa Necaxa 08. Jaime Durán - Defensa Atlas 09. Hugo Sánchez - Defensa UANL 10. Diego Martínez - Defensa Necaxa 11. Gonzalo Pineda - Defensa UNAM 12. Joel Huiqui - Defensa Pachuca 13. Israel López - Mediocapista Toluca 14. Luis Ernesto Pérez - Mediocapista Monterrey 15. Antonio Naelson - Mediocapista Toluca 16. Ismael Iñiguez - Mediocapista UNAM 17. Gerardo Espinoza - Mediocapista Atlas 18. Sergio Amauri Ponce - Delantero Toluca 19. Juan Pablo García - Delantero Atlas 20. Rafael Márquez Lugo - Delantero Morelia 21. Omar Bravo - Delantero Guadalajara 22. Alberto Medina - Delantero Guadalajara http://www.esmas.com/seleccionmexicana/noticias/371511.html
i know. that sux. i wish it was Cuau. the other 2 players that are going to reinforce the sub-23 squad are Omar Bravo and Israel Lopez.
I hate the callups. Zinha may get a chance because he was the first naturalizado and really didn´t look to be tryng for a callup because he wasn´t that great when he did and you could buy that he wanted to become Mexican. But give a naturalizado a call up to they olympics where you have only 3 spots for mexicans? Are you insane? Plus Blanco said he wanted to go and I´m sorry for Tv Azteca or whover hypes Zinha but he isn´t better than Blanco. Blanco is better and Mexican and wanted to be and Lavolpe chooses blanco over him. Plus Zinha has no experience. How is that justified?
I think most of the teams in our divison are going to fall short (includeing my Canada who did just kick Belize's Butt)
There going to get eliminated pretty early. Good luck playing greece they have a strong team this year and they tied Spain which has a crap load more stars then Mexico does.
remember where you read this first: zinha is gonna choke, yes even in the freaking olympics. then hopefully lavolpe will stop calling him or gets fired.
i have nothing against Sinha, but the guy has absolutely no internationl team experience. if Lavolpe really wanted a creative attacker like he said, he should have stuck with Blanco. if not, there's always Jesus Arellano. they both have experience and are MEXICAN!!!!
jesus arellano has the same sickness that bofo does, they cannt finish the great plays they started with and without the ball....in that case, he should of called up kikin or cuau, but cuau would be my best choice, like somebody said in another thread, he is the only one that plays to win and its not afraid, he plays for the camiseta......who else would of left the two korean defenders just looking at each other...nobody, nobody would of have come up with la cuautemina......
I was reading the old topics and as a Finn wanted to correct that Finland DID NOT lose all games when we hosted sub-17 tournament in 2003. Finland first beat China but then lost to Mexico and Colombia and went out.
I don't think any "naturalizado" should be a part of the MEXICAN team...it ruins the entire purpose of representing your country. But Blanco isn't a good player anymore anyway...his time passed already. Once all the good players get on the spot and win all this publicity it seems their playing style goes wack. It's happened with Luis Hernandes, Jorge Campos, Blanco, and now Osvaldo Sanchez is heading for the same direction. As far as the actual question, Mexico can be a very well stragetical playing team when they set their minds to it. Too many times do they let their concentration down after they have a goal scored on them. They need to be confident (not over-confident) and very persistent. With the lineup they have, I'm pretty sure they can get a medal...a gold.