Necaxa vs Puebla: When a Forgotten Liga MX Fixture Becomes the World’s Most Honest Mirror In the grand, greasy carousel of global football, where the Premier League sells itself as a Gulf-financed soap opera and the Champions League is essentially a Mastercard commercial with grass stains, the Liga MX Saturday-night tilt between Club Necaxa and…
Chivas vs Tigres: When Two Mexican Football Brands Duke It Out, the Rest of the World Pretends Not to Peek Estadio Akron, Guadalajara, 21:06 local—while global attention was busy rubber-necking between a European Super League that refuses to die and the Champions League anthem being used as background music for crypto-scams, Club Deportivo Guadalajara and…
América 2–1 Guadalajara: A Football Score That Echoes Louder Than a Narco-Drone in a Mariachi Bar By Dave’s Locker’s Drinks-Expense Correspondent, somewhere between a mezcal hangover and a geopolitical migraine If you missed last night’s Clásico Nacional in the Estadio Azteca, congratulations—you successfully dodged another round of performative nationalism masquerading as sport. América beat Guadalajara…
Toluca vs Puebla: When Two Mexican Towns Turn a Soccer Rivalry into a Global Parable of Inflation, Emigration, and Existential Despair By the time the whistle blew last Saturday night, Estadio Nemesio Diez looked less like a football ground and more like a Hieronymus Bosch painting sponsored by Coca-Cola. Smoke from illicit flares mingled with…
Atlas—Santos: A Tale of Two Cities, One Stadium, and the Global Gladiator Complex By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between the smog of Torreón and the salt-breeze of Santos, two Mexican football clubs met last night in a fixture that, on paper, was merely the latest chapter in Liga MX’s interminable telenovela. Yet the Atlas–Santos…
Tigres—León: The Derby That Explains Why the World Can’t Have Nice Things By Our Correspondent, Still Recovering from Airport Tequila MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN—If you watched the Tigres–León clash last weekend strictly for the football, congratulations on your adorable naïveté. The rest of us—jaded foreign hacks, commodity traders glued to Bloomberg, and European scouts praying Mexico…
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…
Mazatlán vs. Pumas: A Carnival of Collapse Played Out on Two Continents By Dave’s Locker International Desk The Pacific tide rolls in over Mazatlán’s malecón just as the tide of public patience rolls out for Club Mazatlán and their perennial tormentors, Pumas UNAM. On paper it’s merely another mid-table Liga MX fixture, a Wednesday-night obligation…
Necaxa-Juárez and the Quiet Apocalypse of Provincial Football By Our Man in the Americas, nursing a mezcal and a migraine in row 17, Estadio Victoria The world’s attention has been, understandably, elsewhere: Gaza’s rubble livestream, Musk firing another 3,000 people over emoji, and the International Olympic Committee debating breakdancing’s spiritual purity. Yet on Saturday night,…
