Mexico national under-17 football team

Mexico U-17

Nickname(s)	El Tricolor (The Tricolor)
Association	Mexican Football Federation (Federación Mexicana de Fútbol)
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Raúl Gutiérrez
FIFA code	MEX
Home colours Away colours
First international
Hungary 0–0  Mexico (Shanghai, China; 31 July 1985)
Biggest win
Mexico 7–0  Trinidad and Tobago (Tijuana, Mexico; 22 April 2009)
Biggest defeat
Soviet Union 7–0  Mexico (St.John's, Canada; 14 July 1987)
World Cup
Appearances	10 (First in 1985)
Best result	Champions 2005, 2011

Medal record
U-17 World Cup
Gold	2005 Peru	Team
Gold	2011 Mexico	Team

The Mexico U-17 national football team is one of the younger teams that represents Mexico in football, and is controlled by the Mexican Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Mexicana de Fútbol). A two time FIFA U-17 World Cup champion, the team has enjoyed recent success as it was crowned in the 2005 and 2011 editions of the tournament. In 2011, Mexico hosted and subsequently won the tournament by defeating Uruguay in the final. Mexico has participated in 10 of 14 FIFA U-16/U-17 World Cup events.

Competitive record

FIFA U-17 World Championship

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1985	Group Stage	3	1	1	1	3	3
1987	Group Stage	3	1	1	1	3	9
1989	Banned
1991	Group Stage	3	1	0	2	5	6
1993	Group Stage	3	1	0	2	4	7
1995	Did Not Qualify
1997	Group Stage	3	1	0	2	8	6
1999	Quarter-Finals	4	2	0	2	7	7
2001	Did Not Qualify
2003	Quarter-Finals	4	1	2	1	5	5
2005	Champions	6	5	0	1	16	3
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Round of 16	4	2	0	2	4	3
2011	Champions	7	7	0	0	17	7
Total	10/14	40	21	4	14	72	56

Individual awards

In addition to team victories, Mexicans players have won individual awards at FIFA World Youth Cups.

Year	Golden Boot	Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
2005	Carlos Vela		Giovani dos Santos
2011		Julio Gómez	Jorge Espericueta	Carlos Fierro

Peru 2005

Mexico was placed in Group C along with Australia, Turkey and Uruguay in which Mexico came in second behind Turkey. In the knockout stage an extra-time victory over zone rivals Costa Rica let to a then convincing victory over the Netherlands. Mexico ended up defeating Brazil 3–0 in the final.

2011

Mexican U-17 players of the 2011 generation

The 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup was held in home soil. Mexico was placed in Group A together with North Korea, Congo and the Netherlands. Mexico eventually finished first of their group after winning their three matches and advanced to the Round of 16 and the Quarter-Finals, where they won their matches against Panama and France respectively. In the semifinals, Mexico had to face Germany, the only other team in the competition who had not lost any of their matches. Germany had advantage during the first minutes of the second time, but Mexico came back to equalize the score after Jonathan Espericueta scored a second goal from a corner kick, where Julio Gómez was injured and left the field. However, Gómez came back in the final minutes to score an overhead kick, the decisive goal in the final minute, the final score was 3-2 which translated into the first significant victory over Germany in history. Mexico faced Uruguay in the final, defeating them 2-0 in a very closed match where the balance could have tilted any way. Briseño scored the first goal in the first half when Uruguay was the dominating side. During the second half Uruguay kept pressing on and started to dominate again looking for the equaliser however, during the last advances their defense became disorganised and in a counter attack Giovani Casillas scored the finishing goal. With this result Mexico became champions without losing a single game in the tournament and also became the first host nation to win the U-17 World Cup.

Current squad

The following players were selected to contest the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.^[1]

Head coach: Raúl Gutiérrez

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 1GK Richard Sanchez 5 April 1994 (aged 17) FC Dallas 2 2DF Francisco Flores 17 January 1994 (aged 17) Cruz Azul 3 2DF Carlos Guzman 19 May 1994 (aged 17) Monarcas Morelia 4 2DF Antonio Briseño 5 February 1994 (aged 17) Atlas de Guadalajara 5 2DF Jorge Caballero 25 January 1994 (aged 17) Monterrey 6 3MF Kevin Escamilla 21 February 1994 (aged 17) Pumas UNAM 7 3MF Jorge Espericueta 9 August 1994 (aged 16) Tigres UANL 8 3MF Julio Gomez 13 August 1994 (aged 17) Pachuca 9 4FW Carlos Fierro 24 July 1994 (aged 16) Chivas de Guadalajara 10 3MF Arturo Gonzalez 9 May 1994 (aged 17) Atlas 11 4FW Marco Bueno 31 March 1994 (aged 17) Pachuca 12 1GK Jose Gonzalez 5 April 1995 (aged 16) Pachuca 13 2DF Luis Solorio 1 August 1994 (aged 16) Chivas 14 2DF Luis Guzman 30 April 1994 (aged 17) Atlas 15 2DF Felipe Sifuentes 16 February 1994 (aged 17) Monterrey 16 3MF Enrique Flores 25 March 1994 (aged 17) Monterrey 17 3MF Giovani Casillas 4 January 1994 (aged 17) Chivas 18 2DF Jose Tostado 28 July 1994 (aged 16) Chivas 19 4FW Daniel Hernández Trejo 16 February 1994 (aged 17) Atlas 20 4FW Marcelo Gracia 2 April 1994 (aged 16) Monterrey 21 1GK Dilan Nicoletti 18 January 1994 (aged 17) Newell's Old Boys

Recent fixtures and results

Date	Tournament	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Scorers for Mexico
18 June 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Morelos, Morelia	Mexico	3:1	North Korea	Fierro  37' Jong K.  68' (o.g.) Casillas  86'
21 June 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Morelos, Morelia	Mexico	2:1	Congo	Espericueta  40' Gómez  85'
24 June 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Universitario, Monterrey	Mexico	3:2	Netherlands	Casillas  29' Fierro  43' González  90+4'
30 June 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca	Mexico	2:0	Panama	Fierro  2' Bueno  89'
4 July 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca	France	1:2	Mexico	Escamilla  14' Fierro  50'
7 July 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Corona, Torreón	Germany	2:3	Mexico	Gómez  3', 90' Espericueta  76'
10 July 2011	2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City	Uruguay	0:2	Mexico	Briseño  31' Casillas  90+2'

References

1. ^ "FIFA Under-17 World Cup – Mexico squad list". FIFA.com. 2011-05-01. http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/teams/team=1882399/squadlist.html. Retrieved 17 June 2011.