Iván Cañada – Football Scout

LA Galaxy’s Efrain Alvarez uncertain if future lies with Mexico or U.S.

MEXICO CITY — Efrain Alvarez is the most recent gem over whom the Mexico and U.S. national teams find themselves scrambling.

Alvarez is currently on El Tri’s U-17 squad that is preparing for next week’s Cuatro Naciones tournament, as well as for next year’s World Cup in the category. He has also played for the USMNT’s U-15 team. He has experiences with both youth squads, but that he currently belongs to Mexico’s doesn’t mean that’s where he’ll stay.

The young LA Galaxy prospect arrived to Mexico’s…

Queretaro teen Marcel Ruiz handles sudden spotlight, keeps focus on Qatar

Marcel Ruiz patterns his style after Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta.

QUERETARO, Mexico — Marcel Ruiz enters the interview room at the Mexican federation’s facilities with apprehension. It’s a new experience for him. His eyes reveal feelings of uncertainty over the questions to come, over how he’ll handle more than three interviews in less than 15 minutes. He’s never been through anything like this.

“It’s easier to be on the pitch,” said Queretaro’s newest sensation, who at just 17 already had his first stint with Mexico’s senior team a couple of weeks ago after…

Why aren’t there more Mexican managers coaching abroad?

El Salvador manager Carlos de los Cobos is one of the few Mexican coaches to have taken a chance in Central America.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally published in Spanish for ESPN Mexico. Find the original here.

MEXICO CITY — The debate in Mexico is constant over the number of homegrown players who try their hand abroad, particularly in Europe, as the country seeks to grow its brand and quality of football. However, there is no such debate over its managers or the handful of them who have left Mexico for opportunities elsewhere.

France not only shows off its players around the world’s top leagues, but also…

With Mexico targeting unprecedented success at 2026 World Cup, U21s falter at CAC games

Mexico’s brass are developing a plan that hopes to put Mexico in position to make some serious noise at the 2026 World Cup.
MEXICO CITY — If the Mexican Football Federation’s plan was to have its national side reaching places they had never been before in the World Cup in eight years’ time, those ambitions suffered a huge setback Wednesday: an early elimination at the Central American and Caribbean Games for a generation called upon to write that history.

Mexican Football Federation president Yon de Luisa and his staff presented on Wednesday some of their ideas for the near future, the most noteworthy being the intention…

Mexico and Juan Carlos Osorio’s World Cup master plan has been months in the making

ESPN FC’s Seb Salazar and Herc Gomez have traveled all over Russia covering El Tri and have clearly enjoyed every moment of it.
As soon as the Mexico national team found out last December who their opponents would be at the World Cup in Russia, Juan Carlos Osorio’s master plan was set in motion — a plan that would allow the team to take on every rival “with the best possible preparation,” according to the manager.
The Colombian, along with his technical team and board, developed an unprecedented plan for the national team who would take part in the World Cup. El Tri adopted an approach of “in order to achieve different…

LA Galaxy’s Efrain Alvarez uncertain if future lies with Mexico or U.S.

Queretaro teen Marcel Ruiz handles sudden spotlight, keeps focus on Qatar

Why aren’t there more Mexican managers coaching abroad?

With Mexico targeting unprecedented success at 2026 World Cup, U21s falter at CAC games

Mexico and Juan Carlos Osorio’s World Cup master plan has been months in the making

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