MEXICO CITY (AP) Getting three points, not heightened political tension between the United States and Mexico, is the focus of American players going into Sunday night’s World Cup qualifier at Azteca Stadium.
”When these guys are bearing down on you, Donald Trump is the last thing on your mind,” U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard said Saturday at the cavernous stadium.
Mexico upset the U.S. 2-1 at Columbus, Ohio, on the opening day of the final round of qualifying in November and is in position to sweep the Americans in a qualifying cycle for the first time 1972. El Tri leads the North and Central American and Caribbean region with four wins and a draw at the halfway point and with a victory could pretty much make certain a seventh straight World Cup berth.