One of the burning questions of Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio's tenure at the helm of El Tri so far is what to do with Swiss-army knife Miguel Layun. Layun, currently with Porto (along with El Tri teammates Hector Herrera and Tecatito Corona) in the Portuguese Liga. Before that, Layun was at Watford in the English Premier League.
Mexico is off to an auspicious start in its World Cup qualifying group, defeating El Salvador at home 3-0 and Honduras away 2-0. What will come as a pleasant surprise to Mexico fans is how well El Tri's youngsters have played in the two games.
Everyone knows how good Jesus "Tecatito" Corona can be, the Porto winger having flashed his considerable potential on numerous occasions, but his goal to put Mexico ahead of Honduras on Tuesday was something special.
Manchester United have been having problems at striker, with their only three options being possibly-over-the-hill Wayne Rooney, midfielder Marouane Felaini and 18-year-old Anthony Martial. That's why it seemed to many an unwise decision when they sold 27-year-old Mexican striker Chicharito Hernandez to Bayer Leverkusen during the transfer window.
Hernandez has been on fire for Leverkusen, scoring eight goals in his last six games, propmting one prominent Manchester United player, goalkeeper David de Gea, to question the decision to sell Chicharito.
Andres Cantor is the best soccer announcer in the world this is not up for debate, although we do allow we have not seen/heard every single soccer announcer in the world. It's kind of like how we haven't seen every single soccer player in the world, but still recognize Lionel Messi as the best.
Meet Luka Romero. He's 11 years old and is from Durango, Mexico. Some people think he might be the next Messi.
Diarios en Mallorca publican al pequeño Luka, nacido en Durango. @rafaramosESPN @ESPN_JorgeRamos pic.twitter.com/piJ86fyAbh
— MoraPicos (@MoraPicos) November 11, 2015
There are two certainties right now in the world of football:
#1: Louis Van Gaal and Manchester United could really use some consistent goal-scoring right about now.
#2: Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez is on fire.
If you look closely enough at Hernandez during one of his now frequent goal celebrations, you’ll see there’s a glint in his eye. You know that glint that says: “stuff it, Louis Van Gaal!”
This international break will mark the first games in charge for new El Tri manager Juan Carlos Osorio. Mexico will play El Salvador and Honduras during this international break, which marks the beginning of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. Osorio held his first training session as Mexico manager Monday.
Andres Guardado and Hector Moreno are teammates for both club and country, for PSV and Mexico. As such, they appear to have developed more chemistry than your average center mid-center back pairing.
This weekend against Utrecht, they got a chance to showcase that chemistry. Off a corner, Guardado found Moreno square in the middle of the box. Moreno then one-timed the ball into the goal, a superb finish for any center back.
Miguel Layun has been in wonderful form for both club and country this season, wonderful form he continued this weekend. Layun scored a goal and recorded an assist in Porto's 2-0 win over Setubal, continuing his momentum from last week when he scored in the Champions League.
While researching an article about Miguel Herrera's new gig as coach of Club Tijuana in Liga MX, I came to a startling realization: he and New York Mets pitcher/human empanada Bartolo Colon share a resemblance. In fact, it was uncanny.
Methinks they might be the same person. An investigation ensued.