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🇺🇸 #USMNT 0-2 🇲🇽 Mexico
📍 Pasadena
👔 Sampson
📋 US Cup
Mexico looked like US Cup winners after this win over the US.
Aspe assisted on Alves’ 3rd-min goal before capping the scoring in the 71st.
First loss to Mexico on US soil since 1974.
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The picture above depicts when Alves, who clearly had an eventful day, kicked Lalas (@AlexiLalas).
Lalas: “A sole of a foot to my ‘groinal’ area. A full-on assault to my manhood.”
Two more matches against Mexico still ahead in 1997.
Scorers: Luis Roberto Alves 3′, Alberto García Aspe 71′
USA: Brad Friedel, Mike Burns, Jeff Agoos, Alexi Lalas, Cobi Jones, Jovan Kirovski, Martin Vasquez (Predrag Radosavljevic 50′), Jason Kreis (Frankie Hedjuk 53′), Claudio Reyna, Joe-Max Moore, Brian McBride (Roy Lassiter 66′)
MEX: Adolfo Ríos, Pavel Prado, Claudio Suárez, Duilio Davino, Ramón Ramírez, Alberto Coyote, Alberto García Aspe (Marcelino Bernal 74′), Benjamín Galindo, Enrique Alfaro (Nicolás Ramírez 83′), Carlos Hermosillo (Luis García 68′), Luis Roberto Alves (Luis Hernández 54′)
Cards: Cobi Jones [Y 35′], Mike Burns [Y 59′] — Carlos Hermosillo [Y 22′], Ramón Ramírez [Y 35′], Enrique Alfaro [Y 80′]
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