The Road To Brazil 2014 via Wellington feat. Mexico

NCEA study... thats nothing. I got up to watch the NZ vs Italy game during the world cup at 3 a.m and had a final (4th year) civil engineering university exam the next morning at 9 a.m. I was only going to watch the game until we were down by 1 or 2 goals... Suffice to say I passed the exam and it was well worth staying up for the match.

....erm.  

What's so wrong about a) and d)?

Hypothetically.

Good one Junior.

Had an excellent chat with the founder of a Mexican supporters group in the US.  Will be on the pod this week.

Is that 9am kick of confirmed? I want to book half days leave

See my post back on page 180 of this thread near the bottom - not only are they not available, he doesn't want them anyway. Finland game is the first of three friendlies incl. two against club sides and sounds like he won't be calling up any Europe-based players for the play-offs:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9308251/Mexico-squad-named-for-All-Whites

MEXICO SQUAD NAMED FOR ALL WHITES

Mexico City (Reuters)

"The 22 players in the squad the stocky Herrera, nicknamed Piojo (louse) picked for a friendly warmup against Finland on October 30 are all with Mexican clubs.

''There are lots of America people because there's little time to work, because they know perfectly well what we want on the pitch and this way we can reach the level we need a lot quicker,'' Herrera said.

He added that it was unlikely he would call any of Mexico's foreign-based players like Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez and Villarreal's Giovani dos Santos because they were not in good form."

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More info (including news conference videos in English translation - they play automatically in sequence):

Seems the players named yesterday are the basis for the play-off games - but he will name his final selection after three friendlies (v Finland Thursday next week NZT and two friendlies v club sides):

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1589373/mexico-squad-10-miguel-herrera-club-america?cc=3436

what NUFC said.

Tomorrow night should suit you fine. 1.48 a.m: NZ Under-17's v Cote d'Ivoire live; followed by 4 a.m. WSW v Nix replay; followed by 6 a.m Under-17 v Cote d'Ivoire replay, all on SS2.

 Bedtime 8 a.m.

From a Mexican Supporters Group - "@MexicoWorldCup squad is to face FINLAND, not New Zealand. Herrera stresses there are so many America players because of limited time he has."

Will anyone here be traveling to Wellington by bus from the upper north island? I will be from Rotorua and would be stoked to tag along with a bus load of rowdy white noise.

A bit late...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

All Whites coach Ricki Herbert joins Murray Deaker from Los Angeles to discuss what the future holds for the national side, including injury woes, playing in Mexico, and more.

http://radiosport.co.nz/player/ondemand/1865662009-ricki-herbert--all-whites-in-la

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 6:30a.m.

All Whites coach Ricki Herbert joins us from Trinidad ahead of tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier build-up game…
http://www.radiolivesport.co.nz/Ricki-Herbert/tabid/454/articleID/15944/Default.aspx

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 7:27a.m.

New Zealand Football chairman Frank van Hattum is on the BoC. He tells us what plans are in place between now and the first World Cup qualifier against Mexico

http://www.radiolivesport.co.nz/Frank-van-Hattum/tabid/454/articleID/15980/Default.aspx

Ricki Herbert is on the show. The All Whites coach is busily coming up with the blueprint for success for November’s World Cup qualifiers against Mexico.

I was fuckin waiting for Muddy Sneaker to get in on it. I swear the first and last time he had anything to say on football was 4 years ago, and even then he was only asking Smeltzy shit like 'why do soccer players take their shirts off when they score'. There would be more to gain for football in this country from not talking to him at all. If I were an AW my main goal would be not to make a WC, but to tell Muzza to go eat a dick on national tv.

inb4 in your dreams

inb4 nufc gif

inb4 collective angst

/rant

AJ has some serious issues. In a sad way I kind of agree with you about Deaker though.. Knows nothing about the game, nor does he care. Pointless exercise trying to talk football with him.

Mexico has picked a very weak squad for the matches. No players picked outside Mexico.

I calculate the game as 8am, 14th November, I see people here talking about 13th but that's local time, which would be 14th here....

...correct me if wrong 

Videos of Club America which the Mexican national team is going to be based around (players and management):

http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCywgyFbTdXc4

Club America official You Tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CFAmericaTV/videos

America v Cruz Azul Liga Mx Clausura Second-leg Final May 26 2013 (Championship decider) FULL GAME:

(Club America in the yellow - watch for the America goalie in extra-time scoring with a header!!!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Sl--WQtuE

(Hope we don't get those crap ads projected on the screen during  the play-off as Mexican fans have to put up with!!!)

In February 2013, Consulta Mitofsky, the leading company in Mexico in the field of public opinion research, released a study in which 44 percent of the respondents said they hated America.

 Seem a pretty volatile bunch of players and prone to all-out brawls with the opposition and lots of cards. A US fan blogging on America v AC Milan friendly, Atlanta, 2009 : "  Throughout much of the match, America’s players had played somewhat dirty soccer..."

A few examples here:

"Friendly" America v Guadalajara, July, Los Angeles - four reds + five other yellows:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2013/jul/04/club-america-guadalajara-brawl-video

Even at youth level - recent youth final featuring Club America in Denmark - two reds & America coach expelled (report):

http://www.danacup.com/index.php/en/news/452-b17-finals-club-america-vs-hjorring-fc

America and Chivas "fans" try to kill eachother during pitch invasion "friendly" Los Vegas, July:

http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Massive-football-brawl-Chivas-Club-America-fans-fight-Las-Vegas/tabid/415/articleID/303904/Default.aspx

Lets hope we don't play Siggy...

Club america just tossed out of concacaf champs league with all thier mex internationals and new national coach at helm

Mexico under new coach Herrera likely will be playing 5 - 3 - 2:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1819158-mexico-why-miguel-herrera-capped-10-america-players-for-el-tri

In defense "we will most likely see five defenders in that line. Miguel Layun will be a thriving force through the left flank. Juan Carlos Valenzuela and Francisco Rodriguez will guard the center of the box, with the help of Rafael Marquez, and Paul Aguilar will take his usual position in the right.

Offence: "America have the second-best offense of the Liga MX, having scored 27 goals so far. Raul Jimenez is one of the few players who have made it to every list of the national team this year. This season, the 22-year-old has scored seven times in 11 games, which means he has 63 percent effectiveness.

Herrera’s teams are known for being good with ball possession, so El Tri's midfield will probably be led by Juan Carlos Medina.

The goalkeeper will be Moises Muñoz. He may not have as much experience as Jesus Corona, but he is playing better in the local tournament. He has conceded eight goals in 12 matchdays. Corona has conceded 14 in 13 matchdays."

Excellent video predicting  Mexican line-up: 5 - 3 - 2 : no overseas players - "I wouldn't be surprised the line-up he'll use against NZ": 

 http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1590575/miguel-herrera-says-carlos-vela-ruled-el-tri-recall?cc=3436

Three centre-backs Valenzuela, Rodriguez and Marquez (when the commentator says Valenzuela in midfield I think he mean Medina, as he already had Valenzuela in defence)

                                                                                    Munoz

                                     Aguilar                   Rodriguez          Marquez      Valenzuela                Layun

                                                                     Lobos                   Medina              Pena     

                                                                      Jimenez                        Peralta

Ages of players:                    .                                       33

                                 27                              32                          34                       29                      25

                                                    32                                    30                             23

                                                                     22                                    29  

Well worth a read and containing everything you need to know is this more detailed assessment of  Mexican squad and likely combinations: 

   http://blog.foxsoccer.com/post/64698613334/assessing-miguel-herreras-first-squad-selection-for-el                                                 

Beaten JV

HA! HA! Is much, much worse for Mexico when you consider it was a lowly COSTA RICAN club that knocked them out AT HOME IN THE AZTECA - PARTY TIME IN NZ - WOO - HOO !!!!!

http://espnfc.com/us/en/gamecast/378164/gamecast.html?soccernet=true&cc=5901

Americans celebrating on the All Whites Facebook:

  Joel Francis Perez

If we were ever going to beat Mexico surely its now

EXCELLENT !!! The Mexicans have started a Facebook page supporting the All Whites. Only started 18 October and already 622 likes:

Use Google Translate as it's in Spanish but many fun opinions from Mexicans opposed to their team and federation and now jumping ship to support us. Many links to Mexican articles about the All Whites etc. - seems the All Whites and all things NZ are big news in Mexico right now!

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yo-apoyo-a-Nueva-Zelanda-para-Brasil-2014/481011532007121