FC Juárez experienced a historic final semester, achieving their best performance in Liga MX since the club's founding in 2015. The team accumulated 24 points by the end of the Clausura, emerging as an unexpected contender for the Liguilla and qualifying for the final phase for the first time in...
Total Football Analysis’ Breakout XI for 2025 includes eight ‘alternates’ / ’bench players’ who almost made the cut for a full scouting report in the magazine. Those players will still be covered with a mini-data analysis. The first is Kevin Mier, who plays as a goalkeeper for Cruz Azul in...
Who Is Marcelo Flores? As Mexico prepares for this year’s Copa América, there's a sense of anticipation and hope. Among the young players who could make a significant impact is 20-year-old Marcelo Flores, a talent currently playing for Tigres in Liga MX. Let's delve into his potential and what he...
Cruz Azul are in the midst of one of the most exciting in-season renaissance stories in football at the moment. La Maquina endured a torrid first half of the Mexican league season in the Liga Apertura, finishing 16th among 18 teams after winning just five games and losing 10. After...
For those with an interest in the Mexican women’s game, the 2024 Clausura tournament (the second half of the 2023/24 Liga MX Femenil season) is already providing plenty of entertainment, with surprise results, tactical masterclasses and end-to-end action making it a thoroughly engrossing spectacle. One of the teams that has...
If there is one club that is the envy of English football at present, then it's Brighton. Not only do the Seagulls have a young, inventive manager and a team playing attractive football, but their player recruitment drive is raking in hefty transfer fees. One of the summer's transfer sagas...
Club León occupied eighth place in the Mexican league, Apertura of Liga MX, qualifying for the final series play-offs and then exiting from the Apertura Quarter Finals against Club América. Still, they have shown excellence in set pieces, especially corner kicks. They have scored the second-most set-piece goals in Liga...
Ever since its inaugural season back in 2017, Liga MX Femenil has garnered a reputation as one of the fastest-developing leagues in the global women’s game, with it boasting an array of player talent and continually growing its fanbase as each year goes by. Such is the quality on show...
Club América are the most successful team in the history of Mexican football. The iconic side have a record-setting 13 titles to their name, with Club Deportivo Guadalajara following just behind on 12 championship wins. However, the famous club have not won any silverware since the 2018/19 Clausura — a...
Club León are a side steeped in history in Mexico. Their eight league titles are the fifth-most in the Liga MX with only Club América, Guadalajara, Toluca and Cruz Azul boasting more. However, León were also the first side in Mexico to win both the Apertura and the Clausura back-to-back...
Having won 12 of a total of 17 matches in the Liga MX Apertura first phase, Club América topped the table and headed into the knockout rounds as the heavy favourites. The Águilas lost just three matches all season and in the two-legged quarter-final, came up against the eighth seed...
Houston Dash were one of the teams who missed out on the 2021 NWSL playoffs, after a tightly contested battle ended with them in seventh place, just one point away from extending their season. We can therefore expect a reaction from James Clarkson’s side in 2022, as they aim to...
Former Argentina international and Newell’s Old Boys academy member Santiago Solari enjoyed an illustrious playing career, winning a Copa Libertadores with River Plate, two La Liga titles and a UEFA Champions League title with Real Madrid, as well as three Serie A titles with Inter. After retiring as a player...
It’s been nine long years since Pumas last won a Mexican title. In that time ‘Los Pumas’ have had 11 new managers and zero trophies to show for it. When former Real Madrid man Míchel left, a few eyebrows were raised at the appointment of the inexperienced Andrés Lillini. However,...
Many clubs have a star player, the one who scores all the goals or who leads by example. However, Tigres’ reliance on Andre-Pierre Gignac has taken it to a new level. In 2015 Gignac took the leap and joined Mexican side Tigres. Many players spend their careers trying to get...
Not too long ago, the role of a full-back was probably seen as one of the least important in football. They were tasked with defending opposition wingers and not much else. This perception of the role was well known in the world of football. As Jamie Carragher famously said, no...
The managerial merry-go-round in the Liga MX is one that is known across the globe. It does not take much for clubs to give managers their marching orders in Mexico. Four games into Liga MX and already two managers have been given the chop. Being a head coach in Guadalajara...
Things have changed since Matías Almeyda took over as manager at Chivas. After they claimed the Liga MX 2017 title for the first time in a decade with a team featuring only Mexican players, pressure rose on Almeyda. But the Argentinian coach and his players failed to live up to...
