Soccer World Cup 1994 / Mexico

This article covers the Mexican national football team at the 1994 World Cup . It was Mexico's tenth participation in the finals of a soccer world championship.

qualification

First round

bye

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Mexico	22: 03	9
2	Honduras	14: 06	9
3	Costa Rica	11: 09	6th
4th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	00:29	0

St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-	Mexico	00: 4
Mexico	-	Honduras	02-0
Mexico	-	Costa Rica	04-0
Costa Rica	-	Mexico	02-0
Mexico	-	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	11: 0
Honduras	-	Mexico	01: 1

Final round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Mexico	17: 05	10
2	Canada	10:10	7th
3	El Salvador	06:11	4th
4th	Honduras	07:14	3

El Salvador	-	Mexico	2: 1
Mexico	-	Honduras	3-0
Mexico	-	El Salvador	3: 1
Mexico	-	Canada	4-0
Honduras	-	Mexico	1: 4
Canada	-	Mexico	1: 2

Mexican contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	International matches
goalkeeper
1	Jorge Campos	UNAM Pumas	October 15, 1966	4th
12	Félix Fernández	CF Atlante	11/01/1967	0
22nd	Adrián Chavez	Club America	06/27/1962	0
Defense
2	Claudio Suarez	UNAM Pumas	December 17, 1968	4th
3	Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales	UNAM Pumas	03/08/1969	4th
4th	Ignacio Ambríz	Necaxa	02/07/1965	4th
5	Ramón Ramírez	Santos Laguna	05.12.1969	2
18th	José Luis Salgado	UAG Tecos	04/03/1966	0
21st	Raúl Gutiérrez	CF Atlante	10/16/1966	2
midfield
6th	Marcelino Bernal	Deportivo Toluca	05/27/1962	4th
8th	Alberto García Aspe	Necaxa	05/11/1967	3
13	Juan Carlos Chavez	CF Atlas	01/18/1967	1
14th	Joaquin del Olmo	CD Veracruz	04/20/1969	3
15th	Missael Espinoza	Deportivo Guadalajara	04/12/1965	0
16	Luis Antonio Valdez	Club León	07/01/1967	1
17th	Benjamin Galindo	Deportivo Guadalajara	12/11/1960	1
20th	Jorge Rodríguez	Deportivo Toluca	04/18/1968	3
attack
7th	Carlos Hermosillo	CD Cruz Azul	08/24/1964	2
9	Hugo Sánchez	Rayo Vallecano	07/11/1958	1
10	Luis García	Atlético Madrid	06/01/1969	4th
11	Luis Roberto Alves	Club America	05/23/1967	4th
19th	Luis Miguel Salvador	CF Atlante	02/26/1968	1
Trainer
	Miguel Mejía Barón		04/17/1949

Mexican team games

Preliminary round

→ Main article : Football World Cup 1994 / Group E

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Mexico	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
2.	Ireland	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
3.	Italy	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
4th	Norway	3	1	1	1	001: 100	± 0	04th

Sun June 19, 1994, 4:00 p.m. in Washington, DC
Norway	-	Mexico	1: 0 (0: 0)
Fri. June 24, 1994, 12:30 p.m. in Orlando
Mexico	-	Ireland	2: 1 (1: 0)
Tuesday, June 28, 1994 at 12:30 p.m. in Washington, DC
Italy	-	Mexico	1: 1 (0: 0)

In Mexico's Group E, Italy was the favorite. Italy's defeat in the first game against Ireland (0-1) was an immediate surprise. In the further course of the encounters, the teams, which included Norway and Mexico, neutralized each other, with each team earning a win, a draw and a defeat. The four finished the group tied, with Norway finishing fourth due to fewer goals scored and eliminated. Mexico won the group ahead of Ireland and Italy, which meant the three teams made it to the round of 16.

Round of 16

Tue July 5, 1994 in East Rutherford
Mexico	-	Bulgaria	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 1: 3 i. E.

In the game between Bulgaria and Mexico, the score of 1: 1, which was reached after 18 minutes, survived until the end of extra time, after which the penalty shoot-out brought the decision in favor of the Eastern Europeans. While only Krassimir Balakov missed his penalty for the Bulgarians, Aspe, Bernal and Rodriguez could not put the ball in the goal for Mexico, which meant for Bulgaria the quarter-finals for the first time in its World Cup history.