
Offering two-for-one tickets and free entry to anyone who kept the physical ticket of the last time Mexico played at the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in 2007, the Mexican national team prepares to host La Liga's Valencia in a friendly game on Saturday night.
The Mexican Soccer Federation is doing everything it can to avoid seeing the bleachers in Puebla, Mexico, resemble the scene of El Tri's last two games in Los Angeles and Dallas. Two places where El Tri usually feels at home were abandoned by its fans, painting a brutally honest picture of the sporting crisis the Mexican national team has been immersed in since the start of the decade.