Cuauhtemoc Blanco’s best goals in MLS for the Chicago Fire

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Mexican legend Cuauhtemoc Blanco retired from professional soccer Tuesday after playing his last game in the Copa MX final. The 42 year-old Puebla midfielder ended his 23-year playing career with a 4-2 win over Chivas to take the title. Relive some of his best moments from his time in MLS with the Chicago Fire.


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42 thoughts on “Cuauhtemoc Blanco’s best goals in MLS for the Chicago Fire”

  16. @franciscojavierrodriguez8236

    For me is a proud that even being veteran he had good plays in MLS, he had 34 and 36 years old when he played there, and still was good. But what he did in Chicago Fire was an iceberg compared to what he could do when he was young. He’s the most complete and virtuous mexican player of all time, he has it all, normally he was a Creative Forward and Attacking Mildfielder. Good header, great vision, before he had the ball he already knew what to do with it, he had a fast mind. The only defect was that he was very explosive and this caused several times referees sent him off or too much yellow cards. Playing in the field he could introduce himself through the right side or left side of the outside box and make a precise cross, or dribbling in the center side into the box to shoot, or make a nice pass or an assist from the center into the box, aim corner kicks and indirect free kicks, extremely good at penalties, good at direct free kicks. And most importantly: even being a natural right foot, great passer with both profiles, left and right, no matter the angle or distance, and he could make normal goals and great goals outside the box with both feet. He just used in penalties, corner kicks and free kicks his natural foot (and this is the only reason why I don’t call him ambidextrous, but he was very close to it.) He knew to play in almost any position in forward or midfield, he dominated many roles as a Center Forward, Right Wing, Left Wing, or behind the Center Forward or Striker (either one or two) and collaborate and support as a Creative Forward, and as an Attacking Midfielder, either placed on right, center, or left. He was the typical brain, creative, tactical footballer as a player. He also could lob the ball over the goalkeeper to score a goal, make walls with other players, associate with his teammates in a play to score a goal, to score either him or them. And even never being just a permanent striker or center forward, he scored above than 150 goals in his first division career, and won the top scorer title once. He had everything. He’s the most mexican scorer in South American competitions with twenty six goals. And he fulfilled expectations playing for Mexico, in the national team he is the most scorer in official non-friendly matches with 34 goals. He had the opportunity to score in all the World Cups he played. Most historical scorer of all time in Confederations Cup with nine goals. It was a shame that when he went to La Liga to play for Real Valladolid, in the 2 seasons he never was trusted by his coach, the coach only put him like 10 – 20 minutes each match. Also when he went to the team only after 2 months some trinitarian player broke his leg in a national team match and he had a severe injury which left him eight months out of football; which affected severely his career on Europe. But at least he could scored 3 goals after that when he came back, some really 3 great goals by the way. Then he got back to Mexico to never return; he was already 29 years old at that time, what else could be done?. Much of us wanted and thought he would be the next Hugo Sánchez, we saw him at Real Madrid succeeding, ‘cause he had the technique, the talent, the skill, the brain, all of it, but he failed. Much of us are sad and full of grief ‘till this day for this case. But we loved and will always love him.

  25. @ricardocarvallho2599

    Cuahutemoc podía jugar en dónde fuese, lamentablemente las actitudes antideportivas de.parte de los rivales, la discriminación y la senofobia hacia la nacionalidad y claro tbien en parte por su falta de disciplina evitaron que fuese un histórico mundial, porque el ponía a temblar a los sudamericanos, "y ahí viene blanco cuidadito" jaja que tiempos

  26. @ricardocarvallho2599

    Aquí si no lo demeritan solo por ser cuahutemoc verdad?
    Pinches mexicanos doble moral, a chícharo le tiran pero de Cuahutémoc no decían nada cuando jugaba en la MLS y eso que en su tiempo el nivel estaba muy por debajo del nivel que tiene la MLS hoy en día, che sociedad con su mentalidad toda pendeja

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