General News

Mexico’s national soccer team defeated New Zealand 5-1 on Wednesday to virtually guarantee a place in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. El Tri now travel to New Zealand for the return leg on November 20, a game that will surely be a formality.

Lorena Ochoa gave birth to her second child on Wednesday, November 6, announcing the event via her Twitter account, and even posting a photograph of the newborn.

Next week’s sixth Lorena Ochoa Invitational could be the last time the prestigious LPGA golf tournament is played at the Guadalajara Country Club, organizers are saying. 

Local elders bagged a heap of medals at the regional round of DIF Jalisco’s Seniors Sports and Culture Games held Tuesday, October 22 at Chapala’s Parque La Cristiania.

With an estimated 650 million dollars at stake, Mexico’s upcoming World Soccer Cup qualifiers against New Zealand on November 13 and 19 represent the national side’s most significant games in decades.

Club Atlas, Guadalajara’s second biggest professional soccer franchise, has been put up for sale following a meeting of the heavily indebted club’s 124 directors on Monday.

Although Mexico is unlikely to send any competitors to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia next year, the games will be screened here thanks to communications magnate Carlos Slim, whose company America Movil acquired the transmission rights earlier this year.

Question: Exactly why were Mexican soccer fans watching El Tri play Costa Rica in Guadalajara bars on Tuesday evening chanting “USA, USA”?