On the eve of the 80th duel of the so-called Classic of the Rio Bravo between the national team of Mexico against its similar of the United States, it is mandatory to highlight that this rivalry of the Concacaf continues to boil, so the shock of next Saturday in Arizona promises to pull out spark on both sides of the border.
It will be the duel on Saturday between both squads a direct confrontation and without excuses, leaving aside the pretext that the two sets are in the full phase of renewal or that the match will be taken as a simple laboratory of tests, because for the fans of the two countries pride is the only thing that matters.
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This confrontation will never be a simple friendly game on the calendar and history confirms it since 1991, when confrontations escalated to absolute classical level due to the unexpected victory of Uncle Sam’s team, squad that dispatched the Aztecs with a painful 2-0 over the Rose Bowl pitch in the first Gold Cup.
That epic stumbling stumbled deep in the national pride because the Americans were led by Bora Milutinović, the old known who 5 years before commanded the Tricolor in the 1986 World Cup, causing the fall of the Mexicans to be taken dramatically by the tribune as if the northerners had taken over the El Álamo fort.
Precisely from that passage, the Americans began to grow to giant steps to leave evidence that they would never again be the simple sparring of the Greens, a painful reality that was signed with golden letters in favor of the set of bars and stars in the eighth finals of the 2002 World Cup held in Korea and Japan.
That blow logically left an indelible footprint on the palmarés of both squads during the 79 previous occasions in which the faces have been seen, a history that currently favors the Aztecs with 38 victories for 24 of the Americans, in addition to registering a total of 17 draws that reflect the closed of the competition.
Within these duels there are memorable stories for posterity, such as that jewel of Giovani dos Santos on June 25, 2011, when the tricolor attacker signed a spectacular rebound tearing all the enemy zaga with a definition of anthology, a postcard of madness that perfectly embraces the passion with which these commitments are disputed.
In the last direct antecedent, the Mexican team managed to raise the spirits by winning 2-1 to the United States in the Copa Oro final, a balsam that the Aztecs shouted with the soul after the bitter predominance imposed by the U.S. team after being crowned consecutive in the 2021, 2023 and 2024 editions of the Nations League.
Goliaths included. The United States will face Mexico on Saturday. The set of the Bars and the Stars, are unstoppable on this FIFA date. Today, they won the match against Chile. to ? https://t.co/XoV6dlhAv8 pic.twitter.com/7L5b0zQpIZ
So, look wherever you look, reality dictates that Saturday’s match on Glendale’s pitch has very many accounts to be paid, feeding on a sports hostility that doesn’t stop growing on social networks and where the aficionados of both countries take any defeat as an authentic offensive to national pride.
