World Cup Willys…
#11
Mexico
As everyone is well aware, Football in Mexico in its earliest days was an almost exclusive preserve of Cornish Tin-Miners…
St Piran…
…Patron Saint of Cornish Tin Miners - A dirty job which some-one has to do!
Among the very many gentlemen partially responsible for the popularity of the game in Mexico…
…of the Country’s very oldest Footballing Institution…
Frederick Crowle
Real Monte Pachuca Athletic Club
…being far & away the most partial of them all…
The Mexican International Football Team’s first encounter, back in December 1923 ended in a hard fought 2-1 victory against the gutsy…
Yumm!
Guatemalans!
Sadly for us all, their Guatemalan brothers have no World Cup Finals record to speak of, but, hope springing eternal, the way hope does, maybe one day…
Mexico’s
World Cup Report…
Tournaments: 17
P W D L G+ G- Pts
60 17 15 28 62 101 66
Finest Finish: 6th
(1930)
World Cup Rating;
C-
Never having got themselves any further than the Quarter-Finals, one can’t help but think the Mexicans have punched somewhat beneath their considerable weight…
