Cruz Azul: How a Cement-Worker Club Became the World’s Favorite Tragicomedy
Cruz Azul and the Beautiful, Brutal Theater of Mexican Football By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, currently hiding in a Tijuana mezcalería Football clubs are, at their core, elaborate metaphors for national neuroses. Barcelona is Catalan pride wrapped in tiki-taka; Manchester United is the British Empire refusing to admit it’s broke. Cruz Azul, meanwhile, is Mexico’s long-running…