Way back in May, I felt there was some thievery. Pachuca had just won Mexico's Clausura 2006 championship. As they paraded around their stadium with the Cup, I couldn't help but feel a bit irritated.
See, Pachuca had beaten Chivas in the semifinals. Pachuca had lost zero players to Mexico's World Cup team. Chivas had lost six: its starting keeper, two defenders, two midfielders and a forward.
Though I'd still like to see how Pachuca would have fared without six of its starters against a full-strength Chivas side, I can now say I was wrong about Pachuca. On Wednesday, all the Tuzos did was come back from a 1-0, second-half deficit against Colo Colo in Santiago, Chile to win the Copa Sudamericana.
In so doing, they became the first Mexican club to win a South American championship.
It's quite a historic event, actually. No other team, not Chivas, not America, not Cruz Azul has ever accomplished the feat. And they've all had their chances too.
Pachuca, though, is in a class of its own. Maybe this victory can get Enrique Meza on the good side of Mexican fans. Meza will always be known as the guy who nearly cost Mexico a World Cup with his admittedly terrible job at the helm of El Tri. Now, he did something that has never been done and maybe he can shed that bad image.
Tuzos, I apologize for being a non-believer.
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