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Los Cachirules: The ‘own goal’ scandal that kept Mexico out of the 1990 World Cup

Sunday, June 28, 2026Charlotte SmithView original

In 1990, Mexico's national team was banned from competing in the World Cup in Italy because of a scandal that still reverberates in the country's sporting memory: Los Cachirules.

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