Soccer World Cup 1986 / Mexico

This article covers the Mexican national team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico .

qualification

Mexico was automatically qualified as host for the World Cup finals.

Mexican contingent

number	Surname	Association at the time	birthday	Sp.	goal	red	yellow
goalkeeper
1	Pablo Larios	CD Cruz Azul	07/21/1960	5	0	0	0
12	Ignacio Rodríguez	CF Atlante	08/13/1959	0	0	0	0
20th	Olaf Heredia	UANL Tigres	October 19, 1957	0	0	0	0
Defense
14th	Félix Cruz Barbosa	UNAM Pumas	04/04/1961	5	0	0	0
5	Francisco Javier Cruz	CF Monterrey	May 24, 1966	4th	0	0	0
18th	Rafael Amador Flores	UNAM Pumas	11/16/1957	3	0	0	0
4th	Armando Manzo	Club America	10/16/1958	0	0	0	0
3	Fernando Quirarte	Deportivo Guadalajara	05/17/1956	5	2	0	1
17th	Raúl Servín	UNAM Pumas	04/29/1963	5	1	0	1
2	Mario Alberto Trejo	Club America	02/11/1956	2	0	0	1
midfield
13	Javier Aguirre	Club America	December 01, 1958	5	0	1	1
10	Tomás Boy	UANL Tigres	07/05/1953	5	0	0	0
6th	Carlos de los Cobos	Club America	December 10, 1958	3	0	0	1
8th	Alejandro Domínguez	Club America	11/09/1961	1	0	0	0
7th	Miguel España	UNAM Pumas	January 31, 1964	5	0	0	0
16	Carlos Muñoz Remolina	UANL Tigres	09/08/1959	4th	0	0	1
attack
15th	Luis Flores	UNAM Pumas	07/18/1961	3	1	0	0
11	Carlos Hermosillo	Club America	08/24/1964	0	0	0	0
19th	Javier Hernández	UAG Tecos	08/01/1961	0	0	0	0
22nd	Manuel Negrete Arias	UNAM Pumas	03/11/1959	5	1	0	1
21st	Cristóbal Ortega	Club America	July 25, 1956	0	0	0	0
9	Hugo Sánchez	real Madrid	07/11/1958	4th	1	0	3
Trainer
	Bora Milutinović ( coach )		07.09.1944

Mexican games

Mexico was seeded during the group draw and therefore did not have to face opponents such as Germany, France or Italy in the preliminary round.

Preliminary round

The Mexicans played their first group game in front of over 110,000 spectators in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City against Belgium , the hosts dominated the game and led 2-0 after 39 minutes through goals from Fernando Quirarte and star striker Hugo Sánchez. The Belgians then only managed the connection goal in stoppage time in the first half.

The second group game against Paraguay started with a quick goal for the Mexicans when Luis Flores took the lead in the third minute after great work from Raul Servin. The Paraguayans were only able to equalize five minutes before the end, despite this tie Mexico was almost through. With a narrow 1-0 win over World Cup newcomer Iraq, Mexico was able to claim first place in the table.

Belgium	-	Mexico	1: 2 (1: 2)
Mexico	-	Paraguay	1: 1 (1: 0)
Mexico	-	Iraq	1: 0 (0: 0)

Final round

In the round of 16 against Bulgaria , the Mexicans were again the dominant team, the outstanding man of this game was Manuel Negrete. He took the lead in the 35th minute and prepared the decisive 2-0 for Servin in the 61st minute. Mexico was in a World Cup quarter-finals for the second time since 1970 (at that time also in its own country), the opponent being the reigning runner-up in Germany.

In a defensive game, neither side could come to any decisive scenes, even when the Germans were outnumbered after Thomas Berthold was sent off from the 84th, Mexico did not manage to come to any decisive scenes. Javier Aguirre received a yellow-red card in extra time. Since neither of the two teams managed to score a goal after 120 minutes, the penalty shoot-out had to decide on the semi-finals. While Allofs , Brehme , Matthäus and Littbarski met the Germans from the penalty spot, Negrete and Quirarte failed because of Toni Schumacher . Mexico was eliminated.

Mexico	-	Bulgaria	2: 0 (1: 0)
Mexico	-	BR Germany	1: 4 i. E. (0: 0 a.d.)