Mexico national under-17 football team

Mexico U-17

Nickname(s)

El Tricolor (The Tricolor) Los Niños Héroes (The Hero Boys)

Association

Mexican Football Federation
(Federación Mexicana de Fútbol)

Confederation

CONCACAF (North America)

Head coach

Mario Arteaga

FIFA code

MEX

First colours

Second 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

11 (First in 1985)

Best result

Winners

: 2005, 2011

Mexico national under-17 football team
Medal record

U-17 World Cup
	2005 Peru	Team
	2011 Mexico	Team
	2013 UAE	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, becoming the only time a host nation has ever won this tournament. Mexico has participated in 11 of 15 FIFA U-16/U-17 World Cup events.

FIFA U-17 World Cup

Gold Medal 2005 2011

Silver Medal 2013

Fourth Place. 2015

CONCACAF U-17 Championship

Gold Medal 1985 1987 1991 1996 2013 2015

Silver Medal 1992

Bronze Medal 1983

Fourth Place. 1994

Individual awards

2011 Golden Ball Julio Gómez

2005 Silver Ball Giovani Dos Santos

2011 Silver Ball Jonathan Espericueta

2011 Bronze Ball Carlos Fierro

2013 Bronze Ball Ivan Ochoa

2005 Golden Shoe Carlos Vela

Competitive record

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA U-17 World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Pts
1985	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	3	4
1987	Group Stage	10th	3	1	1	1	3	9	4
1989	Banned
1991	Group Stage	11th	3	1	0	2	5	6	3
1993	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	4	7	3
1995	Did Not Qualify
1997	Group Stage	10th	3	1	0	2	8	6	3
1999	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	2	0	2	7	7	6
2001	Did Not Qualify
2003	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	1	2	1	5	5	5
2005	Champions	1st	6	5	0	1	16	3	15
2007	Did Not Qualify
2009	Round of 16	10th	4	2	1	1	4	3	7
2011	Champions	1st	7	7	0	0	17	7	21
2013	Runners-up	2nd	7	4	1	2	11	11	13
2015	Fourth Place	4th	7	4	1	2	14	9	13
Total	2 Titles	11/15	54	30	7	17	97	76	97

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks

CONCACAF U-17 Championship

CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1983	Third place	4	3	1	0	13	0
1985	Champions	7	6	1	0	37	1
1987	Champions	6	6	0	0	16	2
1988	Did not participate
1991	Champions	6	3	3	0	8	2
1992	Runners-up	6	4	2	0	21	6
1994	Fourth Place	6	4	0	2	17	4
1996	Champions	6	6	0	0	23	2
2009	Cancelled due to the 2009 flu pandemic outbreak
2011	Did not participate/World Cup Host
2013	Champions	5	5	0	0	14	3
2015	Champions	6	4	2	0	16	3
Total	6 Titles	52	41	9	2	165	23

Honours

FIFA U-17 World Cup

Winners (2): 2005, 2011
Runners-up (1): 2013
Fourth Place: 2015

CONCACAF Under-17 Championship

Winners (6): 1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015
Runners-up (1): 1992

History

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

Mexico 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 dying 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 equalizer however, during the last advances their defense became disorganized and in a counterattack 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.

2013

As defending champions, Mexico was defeated 6-1 by Nigeria in their first match of the group stage. Despite being defeated by a large amount of goals, Mexico could still advance to the next round by defeating rivals Iraq and Sweden in the group stage. In their way to the final match, Mexico won their matches against favorites Italy, Brazil and Argentina. In the final round, Mexico faced Nigeria for a second time, but the team lost once again and was left in second place of the tournament.

2015

Mexico was lucky enough to make it to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was held in Chile. They were placed in Group C along with Germany, Australia, Argentina and won two of their three matches of the group stage. Finishing number 1 on group stages they advanced to Round of 16. In order to make it to quarter finals, they had to defeat Chile and they dominated them by winning them 4-1. Mexico got the chance to go to semi-finals with a familiar rival from 2013, they went against Nigeria, unfortunately Nigeria defeated them in an intense game and they didn't make it to the Finals. Mexico had the chance on finishing strong with a Third Place title against Belgium in which they lost. The 17-year old, Diego Cortés from the Mexico national football team finished the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup being known as making the best goal of the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Current squad

The following 21 players were selected to compete in the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Caps and goals updated as of November 8, 2015 after the game against Belgium.

Head Coach: Mario Alberto Arteaga

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Joel García	(1998-04-12)April 12, 1998 (aged 17)	0	0	Santos Laguna
2	2DF	Diego Cortés	(1998-06-18)June 18, 1998 (aged 17)	13	2	Guadalajara
3	2DF	Joaquín Esquivel	(1998-01-07)January 7, 1998 (aged 17)	13	0	Zacatecas
4	2DF	Francisco Venegas	(1998-07-16)July 16, 1998 (aged 17)	12	4	Pachuca
5	2DF	Ulises Torres	(1998-02-17)February 17, 1998 (aged 17)	12	4	América
6	3MF	Alan Cervantes	(1998-01-17)January 17, 1998 (aged 17)	13	0	Guadalajara
7	2DF	Edwin Lara	(1999-09-08)September 8, 1999 (aged 16)	1	0	Pachuca
8	3MF	Pablo López	(1998-01-07)January 7, 1998 (aged 17)	13	3	Pachuca
9	4FW	Eduardo Aguirre	(1998-08-03)August 3, 1998 (aged 17)	13	2	Santos Laguna
10	4FW	Claudio Zamudio	(1998-03-30)March 30, 1998 (aged 17)	12	5	Morelia
11	3MF	Kevin Magaña	(1998-02-01)February 1, 1998 (aged 17)	13	3	Guadalajara
12	1GK	Fernando Hernández	(1998-01-02)January 2, 1998 (aged 17)	0	0	Monterrey
13	2DF	Bryan Salazar	(1998-02-25)February 25, 1998 (aged 17)	2	1	Guadalajara
14	2DF	Brayton Vázquez	(1998-05-05)May 5, 1998 (aged 17)	0	0	Atlas
15	3MF	Kevin Lara	(1998-04-18)April 18, 1998 (aged 17)	11	2	Santos Laguna
16	3MF	Javier Ibarra	(1998-02-06)February 6, 1998 (aged 17)	5	0	Monterrey
17	3MF	Nahum Gómez	(1998-01-19)January 19, 1998 (aged 17)	6	0	Pachuca
18	3MF	Fernando Escalante	(1998-01-06)January 6, 1998 (aged 17)	2	0	Pachuca
19	4FW	Ricardo Marín	(1998-03-18)March 18, 1998 (aged 17)	3	1	América
20	4FW	José Gurrola	(1998-04-15)April 15, 1998 (aged 17)	13	2	Guadalajara
21	1GK	Abraham Romero	(1998-02-18)February 18, 1998 (aged 17)	13	0	LA Galaxy

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Mexico U-17 squad within last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
2DF	Cristian González	(1998-02-26) February 26, 1998	0	Atlas
3MF	Alejandro Zamudio	(1998-02-25) February 25, 1998	4	UNAM
3MF	Martín Rodríguez	(1998-05-18) May 18, 1998	1	Querétaro
3MF	Iván Gutiérrez	(1998-02-16) February 16, 1998	3	Chivas USA
4FW	José Salas	(1998-03-19) March 19, 1998	4	Guadalajara

Players Record

Top appearances

Rank	Player	Year(s)	U-17 Caps
1	Diego Cortés	2015	13
1	Joaquín Esquivel	2015	13
1	Alan Cervantes	2015	13
1	Pablo López	2015	13
1	Eduardo Aguirre	2015	13
1	Kevin Magaña	2015	13
1	José Gurrola	2015	13
1	Abraham Romero	2015	13
2	Francisco Venegas	2015	12
2	Ulises Torres	2015	12
2	Claudio Zamudio	2015	12

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Year(s)	U-17 Goals
1	Claudio Zamudio	2015	5
1	Marco Granados	2013	5
1	Ever Guzmán	2005	5
1	Carlos Vela	2005	5
5	Ulises Torres	2015	4
5	Iván Ochoa	2013	4
5	Ulises Jaimes	2013	4
5	Carlos Fierro	2011	4
5	César Villaluz	2005	4
5	Francisco Venegas	2015	4

2013 fixtures and results

Date	Tournament	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Scorers for Mexico
19 October 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain	Nigeria	6:1	Mexico	U. Jaimes 41'
22 October 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain	Mexico	3:1	Iraq	A. Díaz 31' Almanza 41' U. Rivas 84'
25 October 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, Al Ain	Sweden	0:1	Mexico	U. Jaimes 86'
28 October 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium City, Abu Dhabi	Italy	0:2	Mexico	A. Díaz 26' I. Ochoa 90+3'
1 November 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Al-Rashid Stadium, Dubai	Brazil	1:1	Mexico	I. Ochoa 80'
5 November 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium City, Abu Dhabi	Argentina	0:3	Mexico	I. Ochoa 5' 21' M. Granados 86'
8 November 2013	2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium City, Abu Dhabi	Nigeria	3:0	Mexico

2015 fixtures and results

Date	Tournament	Location	Home team	Score	Away team	Scorers for Mexico
18 October 2015	2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup	Estadio Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas, Chillán	Mexico	2-0	Argentina

References

Football in Mexico

Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación

National teams

Men	National team Olympic (U-23) U-20 U-17

Women	National team U-20 U-17

League system

Men	Liga MX Ascenso MX Segunda División Tercera División

Women	Super Liga Femenil

Domestic cups

Men	Copa MX Supercopa MX Campeón de Campeones Pre Libertadores Cup (defunct) InterLiga (defunct)

International	1985 Ciudad de México Cup Tournament 1985 Azteca 2000 Tournament

Awards

Lists

Men's players
Women's players
Expatriate players
Managers
Referees
Venues
Seasons

FIFA U-17 World Cup winners

1985: Nigeria 1987: Soviet Union 1989: Saudi Arabia 1991: Ghana 1993: Nigeria 1995: Ghana 1997: Brazil 1999: Brazil 2001: France 2003: Brazil 2005: Mexico 2007: Nigeria 2009: Switzerland 2011: Mexico 2013: Nigeria 2015: Nigeria

The U-17 Mexico National Soccer Team made it to the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. ^[1]

↑ FIFA, FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015, November 10, 2015

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