10 April – At football, Luxembourg beats Mexico 2-1, recording Luxembourg's first victory in international football since 1963.
He was forced to miss the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France in 1998 with a back injury, but recovered in time to take charge of the 1999 Confederations Cup final between Brazil and Mexico in the Estadio Azteca, Mexico City.
His first cap came in a January 10, 1954 qualification loss to Mexico.
The Netherlands were scheduled to play exhibition matches against the United States and Mexico.
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Traina earned his first cap with the U.S. national team in a 6-0 loss to Mexico in an April 7, 1957 World Cup qualifier.
Perceived by many as one of the weaker nations in the World Cup, Angola were paired with former colonial masters and Euro 2004 runners-up Portugal, then FIFA World Ranked 4th nation and seeds Mexico, and previous qualifier Iran in Group D.
The son of Oscar Bonfiglio (military and goalkeeper of the national football team of Mexico) and Mercedes Mouet, Oscar Morelli studied in the Military School of Mexico and acting with Andrés Soler and Seki Sano.
In 1991 he refereed two matches at the FIFA World Youth Championship - a group stage match between Brazil and the Ivory Coast which ended 2-1 and a further quarter-final in which Portugal defeated Mexico 2-1.
After the retirement of fellow countryman Horacio Elizondo he became Argentine's top referee and was selected for the 2007 Copa América where he took charge of three games (Brazil vs Mexico, Brazil vs Ecuador; both group stage and the quarterfinal between Mexico and Paraguay).
On May 31, 2012, Vranješ was at the center of a media storm for a mistake he made in a friendly match in Chicago against Mexico, which resulted in a last-minute goal for Mexico.
That day, he scored a goal in the 61st minute of a 2-2 tie with Mexico in 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifier.
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The four teams included the host United States, along with Mexico, Colombia and Nigeria.
Alan Pulido Izaguirre (8 March 1991) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexico national team.
In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009).
He currently has 8 caps, the last of which was in a 1–0 defeat against Mexico on 1 March 2006 in a Pre-2006 FIFA World Cup International friendly in Frisco, Texas, US.
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores (born 2 April 1980 in Ocotlán, Jalisco) is a Mexican international football defender who currently plays for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexican National Team, mainly as a center midfielder.
During the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Bermúdez, and four other members of the Mexican National Team, tested positive for the banned substance of Clenbuterol and were withdrawn from the team's tournament squad.
During the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Dueñas, and four other members of the Mexican National Team, tested positive for the banned substance of Clenbuterol and were withdrawn from the team's tournament squad.
Gerardo Lugo Gómez (born 13 March 1955) is a Mexican football midfielder who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
The three games all came within a week as Knight played first on October 11 in a win over Colombia, followed by a loss three days later to Guatemala and another loss three days after that to Mexico.
The player's first game for the Angolan national team was played in Houston, United States, on May 13, 2010, in his country defeat against Mexico 1-0, when he came as a substitute for Minguito.
Hugo René Rodríguez Corona (born 14 March 1959) is a Mexican football forward who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Two matches in 1986, one in 1990 and three in 1994, including the second round match between Bulgaria and Mexico, where his decisions to send off the Bulgarian player Emil Kremenliev and to award a penalty kick to the Mexican side were largely disputed after the match.
He has also been called up with the Mexico national team and the national under-23 team, playing in the 2011 Copa América, the 2011 Pan American Games, and the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Javier Cárdenas Martínez (born 8 December 1952) is a Mexican football midfielder who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
He is also the father of Luis Roberto Alves, who would also go on to play for Club América and for the Mexican national football team because Luis Roberto was born in Mexico, during his father's playing days for América.
He got the chance to play in the Clausura 2006, when Chivas lost 6 of their starting players to the Mexican National Team (Oswaldo Sanchez, Gonzalo Pineda, Ramon Morales, Omar Bravo, Francisco Javier Rodriguez and Carlos Salcido) already in training for the FIFA World Cup 2006.
He represented Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup scoring 3 goals in the tournament, including one in the final.
José Pilar Reyes Requenes (born 12 October 1955) is a Mexican football goalkeeper who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
His scoring feats earned him an England call-up; he made his debut against Mexico in 1985 during a friendly international tournament in Mexico City.
He was appointed to quarter-finals at both Euro 1968 and Euro 1972, and a semi-final at Euro 1968, as well as the opening group stage game between Mexico and the Soviet Union at the 1970 World Cup, which saw him become the first referee to show a yellow card in a match.
The coaching staff for the 2006-07 season included Swedes Roger Palmgren and Johan Eriksson (son of former England and Mexico manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson).
Manuel Nájera Siller (born 20 December 1952) is a Mexican football defender who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
José Mario Carrillo Zamudio (born January 1, 1956 in Mexico City) is a Mexican football coach, a news anchor for television sports channel ESPN Deportes and is known for serving as an assistant coach to Javier Aguirre with Mexico national football team.
Mario Medina Rojas (born 2 September 1952) is a Mexican football forward who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Nicknamed El Pulpo (The Octopus), Zúñiga has also been capped for the Mexican national team.
An Uruguayan international since 26 October 2005 in a friendly loss in Mexico, Pereira quickly became a regular for the country, and represented it at the 2007 Copa América.
Krogh would, however, shine in the King Fahd Cup 1995, when he came on as a substitute and saved two penalty kicks from Marcelino Bernal and Luis García Postigo in the semi-final against Mexico before playing the 2–0 win in the final against Argentina.
He got his international debut for Bosnia and Herzegovina on 31 May 2012 in a friendly match against Mexico on Soldier Field in Chicago which Bosnia and Herzegovina lost 2–1 in the dying minutes of the match due to a catastrophic mistake by Stojan Vranješ.
Pedro Soto Moreno (born 22 October 1952) is a Mexican football goalkeeper who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Raúl Isiordia Ayón (born 22 December 1952) is a Mexican football forward who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
In 2000 he moved to UANL Tigres, a team that constantly failed to qualify for the play-offs, despite having a squad with many star players, including many from the Mexican national team, such as Jorge Campos and Luis Hernández, and from other national teams as well.
Rigoberto Cisneros Dueñas (born 15 August 1953) is a Mexican football defender who played for Mexico in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Of all the refereeing appointments the two that attracted most attention was that of Gilberto de Almeida Rêgo in the match between Argentina and France, in which the Brazilian referee blew up six minutes early, and Saucedo's in the Argentina and Mexico encounter, which Argentina won 6–3.