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Mexico national team coach pleasantly surprised by youth experiment despite loss

So what did we learn Saturday about the depth of Mexico’s aging national team? Or better yet, what did coach Jaime Lozano learn about his team?

Well, for starters, it can’t hold a lead, giving up a two-goal advantage in a 14-minute span early in the second half, then conceding the game-winner two minutes into stoppage time in a 3-2 loss to Colombia.

“The result is always important. And we are the first to acknowledge it,” Lozano said in Spanish. “They beat us in the end. It hurts.”

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But, he quickly added, “I don’t know if it’s the most important thing.