FootballProMx

Mexico's NFL game is decided: LA Rams vs Kansas City chiefs This information was revealed by ESPN.  2018 will be the third consecutive game of regular season. Preceded in 2017 with the Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots, and in 2016 the Oakland Raiders and the Houston Texans. Both editions of the game in Mexico have been seen with good eyes for the NFL and that is why the agreement of the league to keep having the games in Mexico. The two formed editions the Azteca Stadium was full until the end of the game. Even in the game Raiders Patriots, where the Raiders could not stop Patriots offense and were outscored 33-8. So, the reception of the games have been really well since 2016. But, in those cases they were teams were famous in Mexico, specially the Raiders, and of course the Patriots, since all of the bandwagons known in Spanish as villamelones.   This year, the Rams and the Chiefs will visit Mexico. Both do not have a large tradition of fans in Mexico,

 As the San Francisco   49 ers are back on track, they won against the Jacksonville jaguars their 4th game in row. The y have had a misery in past seasons. And after they started 0-9 this season . It has been a tough season. And they will probably have a high draft pick.  But after the Niners win against AFC South division champion Jacksonville, there's a genuine belief in the Bay Area in the idea that with Garoppolo at quarterback for the Niners (5-10) in the future, all things are once again possible. And also with coach Kyle Shanahan ( super bowl offensive cooridnator with the Falcons) many fans think they are ready to be contenders this season. So the new hope with Shanahan-Garoppolo is real. But they are not the only who are improving in San Francisco, also the deffense and the running game have improved.  "I always felt like we could have won a bunch of games " RB  Hyde  said. And indeed they were losing their games by a small difference.  In the last g

The Super Bowl champions; The Patriots host the Atlanta Falcons in  Sunday Night Football prime time game. It was expected to be a tight game with many points by two teams. Although, it was not, it was a game dominated by the Patriots-. In a foggy night at Foxborough the Patriots beat the Falcons 23-7. In the first half they outscored Matt Ryan and the Falcons offense, who struggled all the game to move the chains. The Patriots looked confident, moving the ball, they had passing game and rushing game alternating Giliselle and Lewis. As every week Brandon Cooks was a major target for Tom Brady. And young Falcons defense could not stopped them.  However, the heroes of the night was Patriots defense, who were ranked in the bottom of the NFL defense and were able to stopped Falcons offense, who was exactly the same offense that the SuperBowl one, except for Kyle Shannahan, who is having his problems in San Francisco. Photo by Boston Herald In the other hand, the Falcons were 3-2

The AFC West is moving, the Oakland Raider are not in the bottom of it, while the Chiefs still in the top, they mat be worried of having the second game lost in row.  This Thursday Night game started week 7. As we expected it was a great game with many points a and big plays. Derek Carr had a prominent night, he threw 417 yards, and Raiders had a total of 505 yards. It was really important for the Raiders to show that their offensive game still strong with the diversify of their  passing game with Carr,  supported by a strong RB. Although Marshawn Lynch was ejected from the game, the Raiders handled it well with Washington. Also , in the other side of the ball, the sign of Navarro Bowman, LB coming from the 49 ers added a strong component f the Raiders defense. It was a very equal game. The Chiefs had 425 total yards and Alex Smith threw 331 yards. As always the playmakers from the chiefs had an important night; Tyrek Hill, Kareem Hunt, and Travis Kelce were major targets for Alex

Now, both winner teams in week 1 face each other in a new stadium, adapted for football LFA in Naucalpan, Mexico State  (10 miles from Mexico City.) This stadium willl be the house of the Raptors from Mexico State. Dinos from Satillo won in what it seems to be an easy game for them. They had multiple-TD passes; an interception returned to TD; and a great defense that was able to pressure the QB. On the other hand, the Raptors had a demanding game against the Condors. They were tied with just 6 points in the first half. Then, QB, Bruno Marquez was able to make some interesting plays, he scored a TD and won the game. The keys for the game will be for Saltillo defense to press the QB, and keep a spy, because Bruno Marquez is a really mobile QB. Until now, Saltillo is the strongest team in the north, it used to play under the sun with high temperatures. In my opinion, they will be able to adapt to conditions easily in Mexico State. In the last profesional football league, the extin

Mayas and Condors were both losing teams in week 1, LFA Mexican Football League. Mayas, the champions, lost against the Eagles, and Condors lost against the Raptors from Naucalpan, Mexico State. Both teams will be looking for a victory, not to start the season 0-2. In the case of Condors, they must play the way they did it in the first half of the game against the Raptors. During the second half, they were able to score the  TD of the victory. Besides that, coach Zapata stated that he felt confident about the performance of the team, and they were confident to make adjustments looking forward to the game with Mayas. Mayas showed a good performance in special teams and running game with their RB Cojolum. On the other hand, when they give time to QB Marco García to throw, he usually finds someone open. As a prediction, I think it will be a really closed game, where defensives will be the main factor.  I will give the victory to Condors 17-10.

One of the most interesting matchups in LFA, Mexican football league, week 2, will be the (1-0) Eagles visiting the (0-1) Fundidores at Tecnológico Stadium, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (northern Mexico,) on Sunday. What makes this matchup so stimulating? Here we go: Fundidores started this season visiting the Dinos in Saltillo, Coahuila. They lost 33-16 against the Dinos. They did not have their dreamed debut, the coach and the players confirmed that. In the city, there was a great expectation about what former college players, from the best univerisities in the area, would do in professional football.  They also had some problems with their OL; at the same time, in many plays QB Roberto Vega threw under pressure. If the Fundidores do want to win, they must give more time to the QB. Secondly, the Eagles come from Mexico City with a victory against the champions, Mayas, in a very closed game. However, they managed to look like a strong team in all the departments (offense, defense

In a clearly defensive matchup, the Raptors have their first win against Condors, which was able to dominate the first half. Still, the Raptors did the adjustments to go with their QB, former Condor, Bruno Marquez.

This weekend started the Mexican Football League LFA. There was a great expectation of the second season of the league. There were new teams on the north, new players, and more media coverage. And we were expecting to be more professional. In this post I will point out some of the hits and problems that the league had in general during the first week. As a hit, I believe that diversifying the location of some teams will allow more people to go to these games in different cities such as in Saltillo, Monterrey or Naucalpan. The matchups were really intresting and most of them were fun and entertaining. That is the main point of this league and sport. And finally, I saw some improvement in the way players performed. The same players looked in a high level of game phisically and mentally. On the other hand , there were problems with the organization and the staff. First of all, the streaming was failing. The league charged 499 mexican pesos (25USD) to watch the 24 games of the league,

This term " porros " (bullies) comes from the Spanish word  Porra, witch means "cheer". And it comes from the first football games played in Mexico, back in 1936 (Sánchez:2004). Nowadays, they are pseudo students organized in groups in public universities and highschools. They are financed by local and federal authorities. The activities they perform are to intimidate, mainly, activist and student movilizations inside the campuses. The interesting thing about them is that they also intimidate, create fights, and riots at football games. Coincidence?  I dont think so. Football was, before the student uprising and massacre in Tlatelolco in October 2th 1968, the first sport in Mexico, shared by the baseball fans. What happened? Well, according to Robert Andrew Powell, from Bletcher Report, part of the student uprising in 1968 against the politcal repression and the corruption of the political regime started after a football game. A classic game: the National Universi

Football is a great sport and is growing everyday. In the case of Mexico, a new professional league appeared last year with four teams (Raptors, Condors, Eagles, and Mayas) in Mexico City.  This 2017 season, two teams will be added: Fundidores, from Monterrey,  and Dinos, from Saltillo. Both of them are from major cities in northern Mexico, where football is really important. But, how this league came to appear? Well, Mexico has a stong tradition of american football since the 1950's. There are two college leagues  –  ONEFA and CONADEIP.  –  Both leagues play at a level of an NCAA division II or III. Even the Olympic Stadium of 1968 was built before for football games. It is part of a college tradition in Mexico to be part of a football team. There was a time that baseball along with american football were the main sports in the country. Nowadays football has come back, but now in a professional league, which will be played from February to May. It will be a great option to wat