On Friday, the Mexico national team travel to Vancouver, Canada with hopes of cementing their place at the top of Group A in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. They say it is not a matter of how you get there, as long as you get there, but after a rough road to Brazil, El Tri will be looking to keep pace in what has thus-far been a campaign surprisingly short on accustomed drama.
Indeed, World Cup qualifying hasn't come easy for Mexico in the past two World Cup cycles. In fact, for the sake of storytelling, one of the most widely recognized moments of World Cup qualifying in recent years came in a game against Canada.