Soccer World Cup 1950 / Mexico

This article covers the Mexican national football team at the 1950 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Mexico	17: 2	8-0
2	United States	8:15	3: 5
3	Cuba	3:11	1: 7

Mexico	-	United States	6-0
Mexico	-	Cuba	2-0
Mexico	-	United States	6: 2
Mexico	-	Cuba	3-0

Mexican contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
	Antonio Carbajal	Club León	06/07/1929
	Raúl Cordoba	San Sebastian de León	March 13, 1927
Defense
	Gregorio Gomez	Deportivo Guadalajara	06/26/1924
	Manuel Gutiérrez	Club America	04/08/1920
	Alfonso Montemayor	Club León	04/28/1922
	José Antonio Roca	Club Necaxa	05/24/1928
	Rodrigo Ruiz Zárate	Deportivo Guadalajara	04/14/1923
	Felipe Zetter	CF Atlas	07/03/1923
midfield
	Samuel Cuburu	Puebla FC	02/20/1928
	Antonio Flores	CF Atlas	07/13/1923
	Carlos Guevara	CF Asturias
	Francisco Hernández	Club Necaxa	05/14/1927
	Mario Ochoa	Club America	1927
	Héctor Ortiz	Club Marte	December 20, 1928
	Mario Perez	Club Marte	02/19/1927
attack
	José Luis Borbolla	Club America	01/31/1920
	Horacio Casarín	Club España	May 25, 1918
	José Naranjo	CD Oro	March 19, 1926
	Leonardo Navarro	CF Atlante
	Max Prieto	Deportivo Guadalajara	03/28/1919
	Carlos Septién	Club España	January 18, 1923
	Guadalupe Velázquez	Puebla FC	08/12/1923
Trainer
	Octavio Vial		11/26/1918

Mexican team games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	8: 2	5: 1
2	Yugoslavia	7: 3	4: 2
3	Switzerland	4: 6	3: 3
4th	Mexico	2:10	0: 6

• Brazil - Mexico 4: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Estádio do Maracanã ( Rio de Janeiro )

Spectators: + 81,000

Referee: Reader ( England )

Goals: 1-0 Ademir (30th), 2-0 Jair (65th), 3-0 Baltazar (71st), 4-0 Ademir (79th)

• Mexico - Yugoslavia 1: 4 (0: 2)

Stadium: Estádio dos Eucaliptos ( Porto Alegre )

Spectators: 11,000

Referee: Leafe ( England )

Goals: 0: 1 Bobek (19th), 0: 2 Že. Čajkovski (22nd), 0: 3 Že. Čajkovski (62.), 0: 4 Tomašević (81.), 1: 4 Ortiz (89.) 11 m

At that time, Yugoslavia was known as "the Brazil of the Balkans". The Mexican daily Excélsior described the fact that Mexico was in a group with these two teams as "cruel". For them "Brazil and Yugoslavia were the tigers and Mexico the steak."

Still, Mexico started the game well and controlled it in the early stages. But as the game played, Yugoslavia got the game under control. Stjepan Bobek made it 1-0 after just 20 minutes, and Željko Čajkovski made it 2-0 three minutes later, setting the course for victory early on. The Mexican team did not get more than one honorary goal to make it 1: 4. This fell through a penalty converted by Ortíz, which Mrkusić had owed to "Lupe" Velázquez .

• Mexico - Switzerland 1: 2 (0: 2)

Stadium: Estádio dos Eucaliptos ( Porto Alegre )

Spectators: 3,500

Referee: Eklind ( Sweden )

Goals: 0: 1 Bader (10th), 0: 2 Timini (37th), 1: 2 Casarín (89th)

The strangest occurrence happened before kick-off. Because both the Swiss and the Mexicans wore red jerseys - and the jerseys of SC Internacional , which was located in this stadium at the time, are also red - the black, blue and white striped jerseys of the other local club ( Grêmio ) in which the Mexican selection played the game.

In the first half, the Swiss dominated the game and were deservedly 2-0 lead at the break. In the second half the Mexicans took over the action, but failed repeatedly due to the compact Swiss defense and the brilliant goalkeeper Adolphe Hug . So it was enough for Mexico only to one goal, which Horacio Casarín scored on the support of José Luis Borbolla after a dribble against André Neury .

For Mexico it was the sixth defeat in the sixth World Cup game. The only positive thing for el Tri was that it was their first defeat with only one goal difference. The previous five games were all lost by at least three goals difference.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to page 28 of the cited book ( La Historia de las Copas del Mundo ; see sources), the jersey from Mexico was still wine-red with dark blue shorts and socks until 1952, before the green jersey with white shorts (and initially green socks ) was introduced (see overview of historical jerseys of the Mexican national team ).

swell

• La Historia de las Copas del Mundo (Editorial Televisa, Mexico City, 2006)
• The 1950 World Cup at RSSSF.com