Columbus, OH (Sports Network) - Mexico heads into its rivalry match Saturday against the United States at Columbus Crew Stadium without the services of captain Pavel Pardo due to suspension.
Pardo is suspended due to an accumulation of cards during World Cup qualifying. Mexico will now have to attempt to qualify for the finals next summer in Germany without the influential CF America midfielder.
“It’s the game that I wanted to play in the most because it is important because of what it means and because I wanted to beat the United States,” Pardo told Terra.com earlier in the week.
Star striker Jared Borgetti will return to the squad after missing the Mexican team’s last qualifier. Borgetti, the first Mexican player to appear in an English Premier League match, is the all-time leading goalscorer for the Tricolores.
Mexico is currently first in the CONCACAF standings, one point ahead of the U.S. The Tricolores will book their spot in the prestigious tournament with either a win or tie. It can also be assured a spot with a loss and some help in other CONCACAF qualifiers on Saturday.
The complete Mexican roster for the match is:
GOALKEEPERS:
Oswaldo Sanchez (Guadalajara)
Moises Munoz (Morelia)
DEFENDERS:
Rafael Marquez (Barcelona)
Ricardo Osorio (Cruz Azul)
Francisco Javier Rodriguez (Guadalajara)
Carlos Salcido (Guadalajara)
Mario Mendez (Toluca)
MIDFIELDERS:
Gerardo Diaz (Cruz Azul)
Gerardo Galindo (U.N.A.M)
Carlos Morales (Tigres)
Ramon Morales (Guadalajara)
Luis Perez (Monterrey)
Gonzalo Pineda (U.N.A.M)
Oscar Rojas (CF America)
Antonio Naelson “Zinha” (Toluca)
FORWARDS:
Jared Borgetti (Bolton)
Omar Bravo (Guadalajara)
Francisco Fonseca (Cruz Azul)
Alberto Medina (Guadalajara)
Source: SportsNetwork.com
Container ship still stuck on sand bar off Ensenada
A private U.S. company was working Thursday to rescue a container ship that has been hung up on a beach off Mexico's northern Pacific coast since Christmas Day, a Mexican port captain confirmed.
The Antigua & Barbuda-registered barge, bearing the name APL Panama and originating in Oakland, was preparing to enter the Mexican port of Ensenada on Dec. 25 when it became stuck about 1.5 miles south of its destination, port Capt. Jose Luis Rios Hernandez told The Associated Press by telephone.
Mexican officials hired a U.S company specializing in marine salvage operations
College student still missing in Mexico
A college student was still missing Tuesday after a weekend night out with friends in Matamoros, Mexico. Friends of Juan Carlos "Charlie" Ramos, 24, said they were about to cross back to the United States on Saturday, when Ramos left them after a fight about who would pay the border-crossing fee. Ramos attends the University of Texas at Brownsville-Texas Southmost College. Police said he isn't in Matamoros hospitals or jails.
Source: chron.com
Finding missing U.S. kids in Mexico a difficult task
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Mexico is the No. 1 foreign destination for children taken by a family member from the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. Insufficient cooperation between the two countries, a lack of resources in Mexico, the slow Mexican court system and a cultural fear of officials hamper their recovery.
"Some cases can take days, but some can take years," said Julia Alanen, director of the
Finding missing U.S. kids in Mexico a difficult task
If the two small children abducted from a home near Queen Creek on Sunday were taken to Mexico, as family members believe, they won't be easy to find.
Mexico is the No. 1 foreign destination for children taken by a family member from the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. Insufficient cooperation between the two countries, a lack of resources in Mexico, the slow Mexican court system and a cultural fear of officials hamper their recovery.
"Some cases can take days, but some can take years," said Julia Alanen, director of the
Irish girl missing in Gulf of Mexico
A search operation is continuing off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula for an Irish teenager who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the early hours of yesterday morning.
15-year-old Lynsey O'Brien from Dublin, a pupil of the Loreto High School, Beaufort, in Dublin, was on a family holiday in the Caribbean aboard the vessel Costa Magica.
It is understood Ms O'Brien was on the top deck of the ship with her 11-year-old sister, Imelda, when she fell overboard. Her sister then alerted her parents and a search was initiated.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that
Irish girl missing in Gulf of Mexico
A search operation is continuing off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula for an Irish teenager who fell overboard from a cruise ship in the early hours of yesterday morning.
15-year-old Lynsey O'Brien from Dublin, a pupil of the Loreto High School, Beaufort, in Dublin, was on a family holiday in the Caribbean aboard the vessel Costa Magica.
It is understood Ms O'Brien was on the top deck of the ship with her 11-year-old sister, Imelda, when she fell overboard. Her sister then alerted her parents and a search was initiated.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed
Media group urges Mexico to help find missing writer
The international press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday urged Mexican authorities to find a radio and newspaper reporter missing in the northern border state of Coahuila.
Rafael Ortiz, 32, was last seen before dawn Saturday after leaving the offices of the daily Zocalo newspaper in the city of Monclova, about 135 miles from Eagle Pass.
We urge the Coahuila state authorities to do everything possible to find Ortiz quickly and to alert the new prosecutors office that specializes in attacks on the press, the New York-based media watchdog group said in a
Fewer Arizona families going to Mexico during Christmas break
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And that means fewer children are missing school when classes resume in January.At most schools, the break starts Friday and ends January 9th.Three years ago, principals could expect to be missing as many as 30 children after winter break. Now, they say it likely will be fewer than a dozen.Sean King of the Border Patrol in Tucson says fewer families seem to try to cross illegally at Christmas because tightened security at the
Missing woman apparently found in Mexico
A young woman from Saudi Arabia who disappeared in St. Paul last week has apparently been found in Tijuana, Mexico. Family members said they had no details of her condition, or how she got to Mexico.
St. Paul police were notified by Mexican officials that they believed Noora Salim, 21, had been found there. They requested that her passport be sent to Mexico.
Salim had come to St. Paul with her parents to settle a younger sister at Macalester College. They were to return to Saudi Arabia Sept. 6, but Salim left a note saying she was
Mexico: newspapers simultaneously publish probes into missing journalists
Dozens of Mexican newspapers have been trying to uncover information concerning slain and missing journalists but have had no luck. Now they have simultaneously published the first in a series of reports on the cases.
The first article printed by the new collective effort of Mexican and US-based Spanish-language newspapers focused on the April 2005 disappearance of Alfredo Jimenez Mota, 26, who covered drug trafficking for El Imparcial, a daily newspaper in Hermosillo, Sonora, which borders Arizona. The report suggested that area police in the investigation, some of whom were Jimenez's sources, may be
