Showing posts with label World Cup match. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Cup match. Show all posts
Argentina knocks off Mexico, 3-1
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Argentina needed a couple of breaks in its second round World Cup match. It got one from the referee and another from Mexico.
Carlos Tevez scored twice — once on a disputed goal — and Gonzalo Higuain added another as the Albiceleste beat Mexico 3-1 on Sunday to move into the quarterfinals.
"We're not here on vacation, we came here to leave everything so that the Argentines can be proud of us," coach Diego Maradona said.
With Mexico getting the best scoring chances early on, Tevez headed in a pass from Lionel Messi in the 26th minute from close in. One problem: He was clearly offside.
Referee Roberto Rosetti of Italy awarded the goal after consulting with his linesman, the pair surrounded by angrily gesturing Mexican and Argentine players.
Then in the 33rd minute, Higuain beat the goalkeeper to make it 2-0 after Mexico's Ricardo Osorio, under no pressure, played the ball straight into his path. In the 52nd, Tevez blasted in one of the tournament's best goals, an unstoppable shot from 25 yards.
"Two mistakes drastically changed the course of the game," Mexico coach Javier Aguirre said. "There was a before and after."
U.S. Happy to Show England, and Others, How Much It Has Grown
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Five hours before the long-awaited World Cup match Saturday between the United States and England ended in a tie, a cafe across the street from Royal Bafokeng Stadium was an elbow-to-elbow crush of red, white and blue, overflowing with English and American fans, a mixed zone of beer and good-natured trash-talking.
They mixed and mingled, blew vuvuzelas at one another and ate steaks and sausages.
read full story at nytimes.com
Mexico’s Coach Feeds a Nation’s Obsession
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Of all the opponents that South Africa could have faced Friday in the first World Cup match on African soil, none will probably be better prepared for the noise and emotion and altitude than Mexico.
The vast Soccer City stadium will throb like a giant beehive with tens of thousands of vuvuzelas bleating in unison. But Mexico is not likely to be intimidated. El Tricolores are regularly serenaded by buzzing trumpets in their own hornets’ nest — 105,000-seat Estadio Azteca in Mexico City — where at 7,200 feet the air is even thinner than it is in South Africa.
read full story at nytimes.com
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