It was just another Sunday night in Liga MX. Pumas were on their way to victory against a hapless Monarcas de Morelia team that had already conceded two own goals. All UNAM needed to do was see out the game and collect three points. In the 58th minute, midfielder Javier Cortes Granados decided seeing out the game wasn't enough.
He needed to score the goal of 2016 so far in Liga MX. So that's what he did.
The Carlos Vela Spain experience just might be drawing to a close. The Mexican striker hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire this season for Real Sociedad this season, and the Vela-to-MLS rumors seem to hold more weight than ever.
Vela, 27, was left out of Mexico's latest squad, and has four goals in 29 appearances in all competitions so far this season for Sociedad. For a striker, those numbers aren't enough to impress anybody.
Chicharito es uno de los nombres más importantes del fútbol mexicano. El exjugador del Guadalajara ha tenido una carrera increíble en la que ha logrado hitos con los que la mayoría de los jugadores del mundo solo pueden soñar.
Desde ganar un título en su país de origen hasta jugar en posiblemente dos de los equipos más grandes de la historia del fútbol, Chicharito casi lo ha logrado todo. Es por eso que hoy les traemos sus mejores momentos, incluyendo las decisiones y acciones que han dado forma a la historia del delantero mexicano.
Jesus Corona or "El Tecatito" has been touted as the future of El Tri because of his fleet-footed, skillful style of play and his ability to create a piece of magic out of nothing. This video is a perfect example of those characteristics.
We are on record as saying Liga MX is by and large the most entertaining soccer league in the world, and there is no game in Liga MX that is more entertaining than El Super Clasico between Mexico's two traditional powers, Club America and Chivas de Guadalajara.
Although Chivas isn't playing like a traditional power at the moment, you never know what's going to happen when these two meet. Sunday's contest was no exception.
Portuguese club Porto find themselves right where they need to be in the middle of March, in the thick of the Premeira Liga title race. Things did not look so rosy on Saturday, when Porto were tied with lowly Uniao de Madeira nearing the full-time whistle. Then Jesus "Tecatito" Corona said "lol nope" and won the game for Porto.
Coronal wasn't the only Mexico international to score for Porto Saturday. Hector Herrera put Porto up 2-0 in the 51st minute with a nifty goal.
In case you missed it last week, Liga MX took MLS to school in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals. The Mexican clubs (Club America, Queretaro, Santos Laguna, and Tigres) dominated their American opposition. While watching the results unfold, I realized I don’t know much about Mexico’s Liga MX and I needed to learn more.
So after diving into the wild world of Mexican club soccer, I came away with a wonderful, crazy, exciting, and bizarre realization.
Club Tijuana is AWESOME.
Fortune favors the bold. Just ask Raul Jimenez.
The mexican international striker's near-wonderstrike hit the post and was rebounded in by Nico Gaitan, sending Benfica through to the Champions league quarterfinals and knocking Zenit St. Petersburg out of the competition.
The adventures of Carlos Vela have taken a potentially serious turn for the worse.
Carlos Vela skipped training today. Oh boy. https://t.co/1WPzwITJPc
— Nayib Morán (@nayibmoran) March 7, 2016
Pachuca like Pokemon. A lot.
What could have caused this obsession? Our working theory is "Pachuca" would be a great name for a Pokemon (other soccer clubs with great Pokemon names: Cobresal, Gremio, Melgar, Carmelita and Xelaju) and they just ran with it.
Here are Pachuca's tweets from the second half against Dorados de Sinaloa. Again, these are just from the second half.