Mexico national under-17 football team
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| Nickname(s) | El Tricolor (The Tricolor) | ||
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| Association | Mexican Football Federation (Federación Mexicana de Fútbol) |
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| Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | ||
| Head coach |  Raúl Gutiérrez |
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| FIFA code | MEX | ||
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| First international | |||
 Hungary 0–0 Mexico(Shanghai, China; 31 July 1985) |
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| Biggest win | |||
Mexico 7–0  Trinidad and Tobago(Tijuana, Mexico; 22 April 2009) |
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| Biggest defeat | |||
 Soviet Union 7–0 Mexico(St.John's, Canada; 14 July 1987) |
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| World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 10 (First in 1985) | ||
| Best result | Champions 2005, 2011 | ||
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| 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.
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[edit] Competitive record
[edit] FIFA U-17 World Championship
| Year | Round | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA |
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 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 |
[edit] 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 |
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| 2005 | Carlos Vela | Giovani dos Santos | ||
| 2011 | Julio Gómez | Jonathan Espericueta | Carlos Fierro |
[edit] 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.
[edit] 2011
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.
[edit] Current squad
The following players were selected to contest the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[1]
Head coach: Raúl Gutiérrez
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[edit] Recent fixtures and results
[edit] References
- ^ "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.
