The team Legends Mexico won this Saturday in a penalty shootout 3-2 at FIFA legends after equaling 5-5 in regulation time in the city of Monterrey. Xavi Hernández, Carles Puyol and Sergio Busquets, world champions in 2010, stood out in the FIFA team.
The match, which served to promote the next World Cup of which four matches will be played in this stadium, took place on a smaller than conventional field. They lined up 9 players per team in two 35-minute halves.
Totti played for the FIFA Legends
The local team dominated at the beginning and reflected this with a deflection by Francisco Palencia in the seventh minute to make it 1-0. The visitor tied two minutes later thanks to a fantasy play by Xavi, who with a high shot beat ‘El Conejo’ Pérez, and took the lead 1-2 in the 17th on a Cafú cross that Alessandro Del Piero headed into the net. Luis Hernández restored parity in the 31st minute with a low shot.
Puyol, among the legends of FIFA and Guardado, among those of Mexico
In the second half, Andrés Guardado surprised in the 36th minute with a cross that Aldo de Nigris headed past Colombian René Higuita, a goal that put the local team up 3-2. FIFA Legends reacted, made it 3-3 in the 39th with a cross shot from Cafú and went up 3-4 via a shot from Patrick Kluivert in the 42nd.
TECHNICAL SHEET
5 -Legends Mexico: Oscar Pérez; Hiram Mier, Miguel Layún, Héctor Moreno; Marco Fabián, Andrés Guardado, Francisco Palencia; Zague, Jared Borgetti
Substitutes: Moisés Muñoz, Alberto García Aspe, Jesús Zavala, Aldo de Nigris, Orive Peralta, Luis ‘Matador’ Hernández
Coach: Víctor Vucetich and Ricardo Ferretti
5 – FIFA Legends: Dida; Pepe, Marco Materazzi, Carles Puyol, Cafú; Sergio Busquets, Xavi Hernández; Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti
Substitutes: René Higuita, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Wesley Sneijder, Christian Vieri, Patrick Kluivert, Jorge Campos.
Coach: Fabio Capello
Goals: 0-1, Palencia (m. 7); 1-1, Xavi (m. 9); 1-2, Del Piero (m. 17); 2-2, Luis Hernández (m. 31); 3-2, De Nigris (d. 36); 3-3, Cafu (m. 36); 3-4, Kluivert (d. 42); 4-4, Layún (m. 45); 4-5, Cafu (m. 57); 5-5, Marcó Fabián (m. 70)
Referee: Ximena Márquez, from Mexico.
Incidents: Exhibition match played in two 35-minute halves at the Monterrey Stadium
Miguel Layún, one of the fans’ darlings, made it 4-4 in the 45th minute with a powerful right-footed shot, so much so that Cafú compensated with the 4-5 in the 57th minute in a one-on-one victory over Moisés Muñoz. Fabián scored, who equalized 5-5 on a free kick in the last minute. In the penalties, Luis Hernández, Guardado and Fabián scored for the local team. By the visitor Busquets and Del Piero.
