2014 World Cup: Mexico 1-0 Cameroon (Group Stage)
El Tri: CONCACAF's most successful team with 15 continental titles.
Mexico national football team represents Mexico in men's international football, governed by the Mexican Football Federation founded in 1927. It has been an affiliate member of FIFA since 1929 and a founding affiliate member of CONCACAF since 1961.
Quick Facts
- Competition
- 2014 FIFA World Cup – Group Stage, Group A
- Score
- Mexico 1–0 Cameroon
- Goal scorer
- Giovani dos Santos
- Mexico's group finish
- 1st (topped the group above hosts Brazil)
- Cameroon's group record
- 0 points – lost all three matches
- Tournament
- FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil
Lore & Background
Mexico has qualified for the FIFA World Cup eighteen times and has qualified consecutively since 1994. It is one of four CONCACAF teams to have advanced to the knockout stage, reaching the quarter-finals twice (1970 and 1986) both as hosts. Mexico played France in the first match in World Cup history in Uruguay 1930. It won the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup as hosts, defeating Brazil 4–3.
Reader's Guide
Mexico's group-stage record in 2014 was one win and two draws (5 points). They finished second in Group A behind Brazil on goal difference.
Did You Know?
- Mexico is the only CONCACAF team and the only non-European or South American team to have won a FIFA global competition, winning the 1999 Confederations Cup.
- Mexico is one of eight nations to have won two of the three most important global football competitions recognized by FIFA: the 1999 Confederations Cup and the 2012 Olympic football tournament.
- Goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal was the first player ever to appear in five consecutive World Cups.
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