There's Mario García at Boyacá Chicó (COL), Rodolfo Espinoza at Universitario (PER), Rodrigo Prieto and Gerardo Torres at Caracas FC (VEN), and Octavio Colmenares at Universidad de Chile. I think that's got to be some kind of record for the amount of Mexicans in Libertadores for foreign clubs. So far Chicó played and won against Aurora of Bolivia, I believe García didn't play. Colmenares is a reserve goalkeeper for U. de Chile and has not seen a single minute of play so far. I do think the other three will see significant playing time throughout the competition though.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Are any of those guys starters, or play considerable minutes coming off the bench?
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Colmenares is a reserve keeper, I don't expect him to play at all unless there is an injury to Pinto (U. de Chile's starting GK). The rest are either starters or play significant minutes off the bench. García was a starter when Chicó won their Colombian league title, not sure why he didn't play yesterday. Espinoza has been playing regularly for Universitario in their preseason. Torres has been coming on as a sub regularly for Caracas and Prieto is an undisputed starter and scoring goals. Some on the mediotiempo forums have even gone as far as to call for Prieto to be on the national team.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Rodolfo Espinoza of Universitario started and played until the 79th minute of his team's 2-1 loss in Asunción to Libertad. Oh and I once again forgot to add the [R] in the thread title, mods you know what to do.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Turns out he did play in Boyacá Chicó's 0-3 thrashing of Aurora last tuesday. García was even mentioned as a key player in the Chicó defence, good for him. http://www.lostiempos.com/noticias/11-02-09/11_02_09_dep15.php In other news Rodrigo Prieto is set to make his Libertadores debut when Caracas visits Everton of Chile. I guess we'll finally get to see Prieto in action since some of the mediotiempo forum boys were making a big fuss about him.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Can we talk about Las Chivas in here as well scince this thread says Mexicans in CL?
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores I put the thread in 'Mexicans Abroad' for a reason. This particular thread is to discuss Mexican players who are playing for foreign clubs in Libertadores.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Well then should of been more specific and labeled this threads with aboard as well
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores It's in the Mexicans Abroad section is it not? That was specific enough.
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Hey is their a Mexican player in this game against Boca if so whats his name?
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Did he play and if so did he have a good game? sorry but i didn't catch his name as of late
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Thanks for clearing that up I guess he did alright for stopping Boca 1 - 0
FYI Mosco, this is the legendary River goalkeeper Amadeo Carrizo. The Cuenca keeper was Mexican born Ecuadorian Carlos Morán.
In other news, Rodrigo Prieto started and played 90 minutes in his team Caracas' 1-0 loss to Everton of Chile. Prieto's teammate, Tato Torres did not play a single minute for Caracas. http://www.mediotiempo.com/conmebol/libertadores/2009/cronica.php?id_partido=30296
Re: Mexicans in Copa Libertadores Fito Espinoza (# 21) started the match for Universitario in which his team beat San Lorenzo of Argentina, 1-0. Espinoza had a good game and nearly scored a nice goal for himself, hitting the post at the 42nd minute with a screamer from outside the box.
This article talks about the Mexican players in this edition of the Copa Libertadores. Turns out they did break the record for Mexicans with foreign clubs in this years Copa with the previous record being 4 in last year's Libertadores.
You know what would be cool if we could loan a player like Landin to an Argie team that has a good coach to teach Landin how to use his height I bet Landin would get called up to the seleccion all the time
Prieto played the whole match and played pretty good. I was surpriced at how good he played, I didnt expect him to be this good. Im not saying he raw but he's pretty good. I dont think el tato played.
Rodrigo Prieto started and played until the 88 minute mark, at which point he was substituted out, in Caracas 3-1 victory over Lanús. Prieto didn't score any of his team's 3 goals but did receive a yellow card. http://www.mediotiempo.com/conmebol/libertadores/2009/cronica.php?id_partido=30755