The Mexican Soccer Show

Miguel "Piojo" Herrera held his first practice session as El Tri's head coach, Wednesday Oct. 24th, 2013, a day after Club America was eliminated from the CONCACAF Champions League. In Manchester, Chicharito's Manchester United won 1-0 in a Champions League game against Carlos Vela's Real Sociedad, while Jonathan dos Santos suffered a knee injury during a practice session in Barcelona. Chivas is last place in Liga Bancomer MX. Tom, Eric, Jonny, and Nayib talk about all of these topics in this 58 minute-long episode.

El Tri lost against Costa Rica in San José, while the Stars and Stripes got a last minute 2-3 win against Panamá in Panamá City. The combination of results permits the Mexican national team to think about Brazil 2014, but on the way stand the All Whites. Tom, Eric, Jonny, and Nayib analyze El Tri's current state and propose ideas that should enable the team to reach its ultimate goal: to attend the 2014 World Cup.

El Tri is in San José, Costa Rica, where Tuesday evening Vucetich's team hopes to get a win or tie that would secure a play-off game vs. New Zealand. Tom, Eric, Jonny, and Nayib, a full house, preview the last hexagonal match for Mexico's national team in "Pura Vida" territory.

Mexico will host Panama next Friday night at Estadio Azteca. It will be El Tri's second to last Hexagonal game, and with a grim home record of 0-3-1 . Panama will come expectant to Mexico City of getting a positive result, but the Mexican national team, now coached by Víctor Manuel Vucetich, has revitalized lost confidence and only believes in the win. In this preview edition, Tom and Nayib are joined by Wiso Vazquez of FutMexSource to pose probable outcomes for the vital Friday game.

Tom, Jonny, and Nayib preview the upcoming America vs. Chivas this weekend and jot down the important points of each club coming into this game. Both teams are living different realities, yet Chivas in the last seasons has played great games at Azteca, can it be the case next Saturday? The guys give their predictions and for the end of the show talk about Carlos Vela's decision on not coming to play with El Tri for its crucial World Cup Qualifiers in the first week of October.

In this new episode of the Mexican Soccer Show, Tom, Eric, and Jonny talk about Vucetich's call-up for the weekday training sessions at CAR. Will Carlos Vela and Memo Ochoa come in October? What is Chicharito's situation looking like in Manchester? And to finish, the boys analyze some Liga MX clubs - Chivas, Pumas, Atlas, and Atlante.

Víctor Manuel Vucetich will manage the rest of the Hexagonal for El Tri, and Justino Compeán, FMF president, and Héctor González Iñárritu, FMF director of national teams, keep their posts amidst turmoil. Corona vs. Ochoa debate. And predictions on whether "Vuce" will revert the situation, or not on this special edition with Tom, Eric, and Jonny.

José Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre is no longer El Tri's manager, and Luis Fernando Tena takes his place. After falling to Honduras' national team at Estadio Azteca, in what has become the "Aztecazo 2", the Mexican national team will play a complicated match against the US men's national team at Crew Stadium. In the first part, Tom and Jonny discuss El Tri's game against "Los Catrachos" , and the upcoming match against the US. In the second part the boys talk to Kyle McCarthy columnist for FOX Soccer and other outlets, Jeff Carlisle, soccer columnist for ESPN, Sergio Tristan, founder of Pancho Villa's Army, and Jorge Arangure, contributing writer for New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and other publications. Massive Show!

El Tri hosts los Catrachos at Estadio Azteca next Friday Sept. 6th, with Chepo de la Torre as manager and a series of tactical questions in need of answers. In the first part of the show, Tom and Nayib are joined by founder of www.soccermexicana.com, Jason Marquitz, to dissect what could be El Tri's starting eleven. In the second part, Tom and Eric are joined by Martin del Palacio, Mexican freelance journalist who has lived in Spain for seven years, to talk about Mexicans Abroad and their current situations. In Spanish, this show is referred to as a "programon."

Francisco Guillermo "Memo" Ochoa will not take part in El Tri's September World Cup Qualifiers because he wants to be a starter as opposed to being second choice goalkeeper, that is what Mexico's manager Chepo de la Torre said. Memo has yet to give his side of the story. Rayados and Víctor Manuel Vucetich parted ways, finishing a golden period that included five championships. Jesús "Tecatito" Corona is an official FC Twente player, all this and much more this week with Tom, Jonny, and Nayib.