Blanco retires from the Mexican international team after playing for seven minutes in the world cup qualifying game against Canada. (I'm trying to find the score online but half the sites I look at say Mexico won 3-0 and the other half say they only won 2-1. It's very confusing but at least the part that they won is clear) He is not quitting soccer entirely though. The 35 year old will continue to play in the U.S for the Chicago Fire for a few more years. Blanco has been hailed as one of Mexico's greatest soccer players and has scored 34 goals since is 1995 debut against Uruguay. Ever since we started watching major league soccer, he has also been one of my dad's favorite players for some reason.
Blanco was born on January 17, 1973, in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. He made his Primera Division (Mexico's 1st division) debut in 1992 at the age of 19 playing for the club America. He was a member of the Mexican team that won the Confederations Cup in 1999 and was the leading goal scorer in that tournament with 6 goals. He was also part of two world cup teams, France in '98 and Korea-Japan in '02. On April 2nd, 2007, Blanco signed to the Chicago Fire and started his Major League soccer career in the U.S.
Speaking of the US international team. They just played a qualifying match against Trinidad and Tobago and won 3-0. I was pretty surprised. We're talking about the men's team here by the way. The US women's team has been pretty good for a while now but I don't really think of the men's team as being very good. However, they seem very motivated to give a good showing of themselves so it might get interesting next world cup. I don't think they're as good as say, Brazil, Argentina or Italy but I don't think they're horrible either. It'll be exciting to see what they can do.
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