Mexican national soccer team (U-23 men)
The Mexican U-23 national soccer team is a selection team of the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación , which consists of Mexican soccer players who have not yet reached the age of 23. Mexico has represented this selection at the Olympic soccer tournament since 1992 , and up to three older players can be added.
history
In its first five Olympic football tournaments between 1992 and 2008, the Mexican U-23 national team achieved its best result in 1996 when it reached the quarter-finals and otherwise dropped out twice ( 1992 and 2004 ) in the group stage or qualified ( 2000 and 2008 ) not at all.
The team had their most successful phase so far in 2011 and 2012, when they were able to secure three titles in just ten months.
First, in October 2011, she won the football tournament held as part of the Pan-American Games at the domestic Estadio Omnilife and was won by the three older players Jesús Corona (goalkeeper and team captain, 30 years old), Jesús Zavala (midfielder, 24) and Oribe Peralta ( Striker, 27) assists.
Seven months later, on June 1, 2012, an all-U-23 team won the prestigious Toulon tournament for Mexico for the first time .
A good two months later, the Mexican U-23 team won - reinforced by Jesús Corona (31 years old) and Oribe Peralta (28), who had already played in the Pan American Games, and defender Carlos Salcido (32) - under the direction of coach Luis Fernando Tena won the Olympic football tournament for Mexico for the first time and also secured the country's only gold medal at this tournament .
The 2012 Olympic champion's squad
| No. | player | Date of birth | society | |||||||||
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| goal | ||||||||||||
| 1 |
Jesus Corona 
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01/26/1981 | CD Cruz Azul | |||||||||
| 18th | José Rodríguez | 07/04/1992 | Deportivo Guadalajara | |||||||||
| Defense | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Israel Jiménez | 08/13/1989 | UANL Tigres | |||||||||
| 3 | Carlos Salcido | 04/02/1980 | UANL Tigres | |||||||||
| 4th | Hiram Mier | 08/25/1989 | CF Monterrey | |||||||||
| 5 | Dárvin Chavez | 11/21/1989 | CF Monterrey | |||||||||
| 13 | Diego Reyes | 09/19/1992 | Club America | |||||||||
| 15th | Néstor Vidrio | 03/23/1989 | CF Pachuca | |||||||||
| 17th | Néstor Araujo | 08/29/1991 | CD Cruz Azul | |||||||||
| midfield | ||||||||||||
| 6th | Héctor Herrera | April 19, 1990 | CF Pachuca | |||||||||
| 7th | Javier Cortés | 07/20/1989 | UNAM Pumas | |||||||||
| 11 | Javier Aquino | 02/11/1990 | CD Cruz Azul | |||||||||
| 14th | Jorge Enríquez | 01/08/1991 | Deportivo Guadalajara | |||||||||
| 16 | Miguel Ponce | 04/12/1989 | Deportivo Guadalajara | |||||||||
| attack | ||||||||||||
| 8th | Marco Fabián | 07/21/1989 | Deportivo Guadalajara | |||||||||
| 9 | Oribe Peralta | 01/12/1984 | Santos Laguna | |||||||||
| 10 | Giovani dos Santos | 05/11/1989 |
 Tottenham Hotspur
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| 12 | Raúl Jiménez | 05/05/1991 | Club America | |||||||||
Players who participated in all tournament victories in 2011 and 2012
Eight U-23 national players were involved in all three of the aforementioned successes between October 2011 and August 2012: José Antonio Rodríguez (goal), Néstor Araujo, Dárvín Chávez, Hiram Mier, Miguel Ponce (defense), Javier Aquino, Jorge Enríquez (midfield) and Diego Reyes (defense and midfield respectively).