MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
Fifa World Cup “USA 94”
Mexico vs Ireland
Match Issued & Signed Shirt
Campos Josè
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This is one of the most Jorge Campos known shirts. It is a World Cup shirt and it was as usually designed by the player himself. But what makes this shirt so special is the fabric and its unique style. While Campos was usual to own design his uniforms, all of them were completely handcrafted by authentic craftsmen. But obviously all of his shirts, also if of the same style, were all different because they all had small details different from each other. This shirt was also hand sprayed in all of its colorful details. The fabric is not printed but all of the colors were hand sprayed making this shirt extremely raw and heavy as you can also see while fit by the player.
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On the international stage, Campos started as goalkeeper for Mexico in two FIFA World Cup tournaments: 1994 and 1998. He would eventually collect 130 caps. At the 1999 New Year’s Cup in Hong Kong, in which Mexico was invited as well as Egypt and Bulgaria, Campos’ father was kidnapped in Mexico and Campos returned to Mexico to attend to the matter. Campos was invited several times to play with the Rest of the World Team against clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Milan. His last game with Mexico was in 2004 in a friendly against Tecos.
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These shorts were worn by Jorge Campos during the Fifa World Cup “USA 94” game between Italy and Mexico which took place in Washington, “Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium”, on June 28th 1994. Mexico draw 1-1. The shorts were swapped by Campos with an Italy player whom we got it from. These shorts are part of the goalkeeper most iconic kit especially designed by him as the shirt above.
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This shirt was worn by Adrián Chavez during the Fifa World Cup “USA94”. It is a particular shirt because it is not an Umbro’s shirt, even if Umbro was the Mexico National team’s supplier for the World Cup 1994, but as the previous shirt above it is a Jorge Campo style’s shirt adapted to an Adrián Chavez shirt as it is very visible from the picture beside where before Chavez’s name there was the Campos’s names printed on. Chavez played for Mexico National team from 1988 to 1994, playing 7 games.
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This style of shirt was only used in the friendly match Mexico vs Ecuador which took place in Mexico City (Azteca Stadium) on February 5th 1997, and Mexico defeated Ecuador 3-1.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
1997-1998
Mexico vs Ecuador
Match Worn Shirt
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Jorge Campos used to design the jerseys he was wearing. Most of the jerseys he wore while playing with Mexico was designed by him as well. He also had a sportswear’s clothing company called Garcis that was Campos jersey’s supplier and for a while also Mexico National Team’s supplier. All of his jersey were colorful and fancy. He loved rhombus shapes so he was usual to sewn fabric rhombus’s shapes all over his jerseys. One of his nicknames was “Surfer” as he used to surf in Acapulco while he was young so he was printing “SURFER” in all of his shirts.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
1998-1999
Match Worn Shirt
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This style of shirt is the same model that Mexico used during the Fifa World Cup 98 tournaments with some small differences like the collar’s color and the wrist bands. But during the season 1998-1999 the team used the same style of shirt but with a small difference of color. The first version was a little bit darker than the second one as you can see from the pictures above and below.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
Copa America 1999
Mexico vs Bolivia
Match Worn Shirt
Suarez Claudio
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Claudio was a member and starter for Mexico in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States as well as the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. He missed 2002 FIFA World Cup due to injury before the tournament begins. He was picked to go to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany with the Mexico National Team. This FIFA World Cup meant his third World Cup in his career. Despite being picked for the squad he saw no action, but he did wear his legendary number 2 jersey. Claudio captained the Mexico National Team for many years and officially represented Mexico 177 times (178 in Mexican record keeping) making him the player with the most caps in history for the Mexico National Team as well as giving him the FIFA world record for most caps by a field player (since surpassed by Ahmed Hassan in 2012), as well as the North American record (which he still holds). On 25 March 2007, Suárez along with former national team and Chivas USA teammate Ramón Ramírez were honored in a friendly against Paraguay at the Estadio Universitario.
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After retiring from both club and international football in the early 2000s (decade), Campos became an assistant coach to Ricardo La Volpe, the former head coach of the Mexico National Team. He was an assistant director of the National team that played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He also owns a fast food franchise, Sportortas-Campos, specializing in tortas. On 31 July 2011, he appeared in the 2011 “Messi and Friends” friendly match in aid of charity where he played for a Rest of World XI. He entertained many of the crowd, pulling off many saves including stopping Lionel Messi.
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Blanco has played for Mexico at three World Cups; he was part of the squad at France ’98, Korea-Japan 2002 and South Africa 2010. He was also a member of the Mexico team that won the Confederations Cup in 1999 where he was the tournament’s leading scorer with six goals, including the winning goal at the Estadio Azteca against Brazil in the final. He was awarded the “Silver Shoe” and “Silver Ball” for outstanding player of the tournament. Blanco holds the record along with Brazilian Ronaldinho as the highest scoring players in the Confederations Cup with nine goals, three in 1997 and six in 1999. In the selection for the final 23-man squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, then Mexico national team coach Ricardo La Volpe left Blanco out of the team. While the ostensible reason given was that Blanco was frequently injured and not in good form, some people considered this to be a consequence of the previous year’s constant bickering, due to on-going personal problems between coach and player. Blanco became part of the squad that played the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, scoring one penalty goal, and the 2007 Copa América, where he scored 2 goals also from penalty kicks. On 13 September 2008, he earned his 100th cap for his country in its 2–1 World Cup qualifier victory over Canada at Tuxtla Gutiérrez, coming on with only 15 seconds left in regulation time. After the match, he announced his retirement from international football. Blanco announced his return to the national team in May 2009. He became a regular member of returning coach Javier Aguirre’s squad, playing in all the games throughout the Hexagonal of the World Cup Qualifying. Since then, Blanco has become an important factor in Mexico’s team regaining form and confidence. On 10 October 2009, Blanco provoked the first opposition own goal and scored the second goal in a 4–1 victory over El Salvador to help Mexico clinch a spot in the 2010 World Cup. On 17 June 2010, he scored a penalty in the 78th minute of the 2–0 win against France at the World Cup finals in South Africa. With this goal he became the first Mexican to score a goal in three World Cup tournaments and the third-oldest goalscorer in World Cup history. Blanco is considered by many to be one of the greatest penalty kickers of all time. He also has a penalty-taking record; out of a total of 58 taken, he has only missed two. Blanco played a tribute game in 2014 against Israel at the Estadio Azteca, which symbolized his official retirement from international football. Mexico went on to win the match 3–0.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
Fifa World Cup “KOREA & JAPAN 2002”
Mexico vs Italy
Match Worn Shirt
Blanco Cuauhtémoc
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Pérez scored his first and only international goal for Mexico under-23 in a friendly against South Korea under-23, scoring at injury time as Mexico was losing by 1–0. Óscar was noted to be the best goalkeeper in Mexico from the years of 1998 to early 2002. Once Javier Aguirre left the Mexico national team, Ricardo Lavolpe became coach, and Oswaldo Sánchez took over his spot. Guillermo Ochoa was expected as starting keeper for Mexico at the 2010 World Cup but in a surprise move, Pérez was called up and played as the starting goalkeeper in the tournament.
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The 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the seventh edition of the Gold Cup, the football championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). For the first time since 1993, the tournament was held in more than one country, with games played in both United States and Mexico. The games were played in Mexico City, Miami, and for the first time in a northern U.S. city, Foxborough. The format of the tournament stayed the same as in 2002: twelve teams were split into four groups of three, the top two teams in each group would advance to the quarter-finals. Colombia and Brazil were invited, with the latter sending an Under-23 team. The United States’ Landon Donovan put four past Cuba in the quarterfinals in a 5–0 win, but the defending champions went out to Brazil in the semi-finals. The South Americans scored a goal in the 89th minute and added a penalty in extra time to win 2–1. Mexico won their first championship since 1998, beating Brazil 1–0 in extra time.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
CONCACAF Cup
October 10th 2015
Mexico vs USA
Match Worn Shirt
Guardado Andrés
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The CONCACAF Cup (officially the CONCACAF Cup presented by Scotiabank for sponsorship reasons) was an international football play-off match to determine CONCACAF’s entry into the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. The 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner United States played against the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner Mexico on 10 October 2015 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, United States. Mexico won the match 3–2 after extra time, therefore qualifying for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. Even though the CONCACAF Gold Cup takes place on a biennial basis, under previous guidelines prior to 2013, only the winners of the Gold Cup that was held two years before the FIFA Confederations Cup qualified as CONCACAF’s representative. For example, Mexico won the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup and qualified for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. This, in turn, lowered the prestige of the alternating tournament, with CONCACAF teams fielding weaker rosters in the Gold Cup that was held on the same year as the Confederations Cup because the result would have no bearing on qualification for the Confederations Cup. Many teams that were also involved in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup during that year put less focus on the Gold Cup. CONCACAF announced the introduction of a play-off match on 5 April 2013. Starting from the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, the CONCACAF representative would be decided by a play-off between the two CONCACAF Gold Cup winners prior to the Confederations Cup. Then CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb stated this “will allow the Champion of every single Gold Cup edition to have the same competitive opportunity to represent CONCACAF at the international level.” In the case where the same national team wins both Gold Cup tournaments, no play-off is played and the team qualifies directly to the Confederations Cup. Following CONCACAF’s decision to end their affiliation with Traffic Sports USA due to the 2015 FIFA corruption case, Major League Soccer’s sister company Soccer United Marketing was chosen as commercial representative for the match.
MEXICO NATIONAL TEAM
Confederation Cup “Russia 2017”
Mexico vs Portugal
Match Worn Shirt
Vela Carlos
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Regarded as a promising player in his youth, gifted with skill and natural flair, former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger described Vela as a player who is “…naturally gifted, quick, intelligent and with very good technique”. He also labelled him as a “special talent”, stating “I like [Vela’s] intelligence and his pace. He scores goals but he can also create them.” Vela’s playing style has been described as being able to “beat his man off the dribble,” and “his linking up with teammates presents danger. [Looking through his first season] shows his willingness to work combinations across the entire attacking third of the pitch.”A left-footed player, Vela is known for his speed, technique, and vision. Collin Carpio has noted that while Vela is typically deployed on the right wing, he can also play as a striker, commenting in 2016: “when he’s in-form, the 27-year-old can be lethal cutting inside from the flanks, and he’s proven that he can setup goals for his teammates.” He is known for scoring chipped goals. In May 2017, Carlos Vela was called up by Juan Carlos Osorio to be included in the roster to participate in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. Appearing as a starter in Mexico’s first group stage match against Portugal, he would provide a low cross assist for Javier Hernández to score Mexico’s first goal in a match that was eventually tied 2–2. He would go on to appear in Mexico’s final group stage match against Russia and third place play-off against Portugal.