Football: Mexico City to stage NFL game
merican ‘tackle’ football is coming to Mexico. The National Football League (NFL) announced the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers would play the first regular-season contest outside the United States on October 2nd.
If the game is well received, it could mean more NFL games played outside the United States.
The league will evaluate all of the markets that have indicated an interest in hosting games around the world, including several in Europe, Canada, Asia, according to Roger Goodell, the league’s executive vice president.
Goodell spoke at a news conference to talk about the game between Arizona and San Francisco.
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Mexico to stage 1st regular season game outside US
Organizers are hoping to attract a record 105,000 crowd to Mexico's Azteca stadium when the San Francisco 49ers play the Arizona Cardinals in October, the first regular season NFL game outside the United States.
San Francisco safety Tony Parrish said his team were pumped up about the contest on Sunday October 2.
"This game right here is going to be all business," Parrish told a news conference on Friday. "I've never played in front of that many people and I'm excited about that."
The Azteca stadium, which normally hosts soccer matches and rock concerts, holds
History to be made in Mexico City
For the first time in the 86-year history of the National Football League, a regular-season game will be played outside the United States when the Arizona Cardinals face the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday night in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca.
The game, which coincides with the nation's annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, will be televised nationally in the United States by ESPN and ESPN Deportes, and by Televisa in Mexico. Westwood One Radio will broadcast the game in English and Spanish. Kickoff is at 8:30 p.m. ET and a sold-out crowd of 85,000
NFL will find football thriving in Mexico
When the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers play at Azteca Stadium on Sunday, they’ll discover something Mexicans have known for some time: Football is alive and thriving in this country.
And that’s without the NFL.
Consider the annual Clasico, a nasty rivalry that goes back decades and pits the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Pumas against the Aguilas Blancas, or White Eagles, of the National Polytechnic Institute.
This is Redskins vs. Cowboys, Raiders vs. Chiefs — Mexican style.
“What a game,†gasped the stadium announcer, his voice straining over the din of 45,000 fans. “And you, the
NFL seeks Hispanic demographic as sport grows in Mexico
By Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic
The NFL is the monolith of professional sports leagues, so powerful in its hold over fans and sponsors that it's hard to imagine that it could grow in popularity.
Yet that's the plan, and a chief target is Mexico and the Hispanic market in the United States.
The NFL sees those markets as vital to continuing the phenomenal growth the league has enjoyed over the past 50 years. That's why NFL officials view the Arizona Cardinals' game against the 49ers in Mexico City on Sunday as
In Mexico, NFL has untapped market
Tony Parrish, the 49ers defensive back, spent three days in Mexico during the summer promoting his team's game Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals in Mexico City. He found he didn't have to do much promoting.
The NFL estimates there are 20 million football fans in Mexico, making it the largest fan base outside the United States. Reporters from more than 150 news outlets attended Parrish's news conferences. At youth camps, he met some of the 250,000 players involved with organized football.
At some point, it dawned on him that he wasn't there as a novelty.
``They don't just
Korea Beats Football Legends Mexico 1-0
The South Korean football team finished up its overseas training on a high note with a victory over FIFA sixth-ranked Mexico. Lee Dong-gook was in luck 15 minutes into the friendly at Los Angeles’ Memorial Coliseum, netting the winning goal in the 1-0 game. Korea dominated for most of the match, but out of the multiple scoring opportunities allowed by the Mexican defense, Korea was only able to convert one.
This victory comes four years and eight months after Korea’s last win over the formidable Mexicans, a 2-1 triumph at the Confederations Cup in
Goalkeeper Rogerio penalty gives Sao Paulo win in Mexico
Sao Paulo goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni converted a late penalty to give the defending champions a precious 1-0 win away to Guadalajara in the first leg of their Libertadores Cup semi-final on Wednesday.
Rogerio scored in the 85th minute to put the Brazilians in command after substitute Aloisio was hauled down by Francisco Rodriguez.
Guadalajara goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez tried to put his counterpart off by wobbling at the knees and jumping up and down, but the Sao Paulo captain sent him the wrong way and slotted the kick into the bottom left-hand corner.
It was the
Cardinals can take ugly play to Mexico - literally
When the Arizona Cardinals announced they would play the 49ers in Mexico City, a smattering of Cardinals fans grumbled. They wondered why a team that had only three victories away from home in the past three seasons would choose to hit the road.
As it turns out, the Cardinals might have done their fans a favor. Another road game spares the fans from paying to watch the same sorry act.
Heading into Sunday's game against the 49ers, Arizona is 0-3. It was supposed to be different this year. With a commanding coach in Dennis
First-ever game between Mexico, Palmyra up next
Win or lose, Friday looms as a noteworthy day for the Mexico Bulldogs, who travel to Palmyra for a first-ever football meeting with the Panthers, currently the No. 8-ranked team in Class 2.
The Bulldogs, who have yet to meet a fellow Class 4 opponent this season, would find posting their first victory of the season more satisfying than just making a little history. After last weekends 27-0 loss to NCMC rival Fulton, Mexico stands at 0-3 at the varsity level, while 2-1 Palmyra is coming off its second straight triumph, a 55-6 romp over
Mexico is ready for some football
They call them the "49s" here. The "Cuarenta Nueves." No "ers," as they're known north of the border. They're not quite the team of choice, either, but that's understood when games of the Dallas Cowboys have been televised here for years.
"Vaqueros and the Raiders," said Moises Andrade, a chauffeur, when asked his favorites in the pros. But it's the "49s" and the "Cardenales de Arizona," who Sunday night face each other in what will be the first league game in the 83-year history of the NFL to be played outside the United States.
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