Women’s World Cup 2015/Mexico

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This article is about the Mexican national women’s football team at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. Mexico took part in the World Cup final for the third time. The team qualified as third in the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup 2014.

Qualification

Mexico, like the USA, was directly qualified for the CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup 2014.

In the Gold Cup, Mexico took second place behind Costa Rica in the group stage. The match against Martinique, in which the Mexican women achieved their highest international victory, is not counted by FIFA, as Martinique is not a FIFA member. Through the victory in the game for third place, the Mexicans qualified and benefited from the fact that by increasing the field of participants to 24 teams, the CONCACAF members were now granted three permanent starting places alongside host Canada. The losing team from Trinidad & Tobago failed in the playoff games against Ecuador, the third in the CONMEBOL qualification by a goal in the last minute.

Semi-finals

Play for Place 3

In total, coach Leonardo Cuéllar used 20 players. Only Alina Garciamendez, Sandra Mayor, and Tanya Samarzich were used in all five games. Record national player and scorer Maribel Domínguez was not in the squad. Best scorer was Charlyn Corral, who also scored the two decisive goals in the extension of the game by 3rd place, with four goals. Three goals were scored by Mónica Ocampo and Sandra Mayor.

Preparation
After the Gold Cup, the team participated in the football tournament at the Central American and Caribbean Games. All games took place in Boca del Río, and Maribel Domínguez was used again.

17 November 2014 against World Cup participants Colombia: 1:1 (0:1)
19 November 2014 against Trinidad and Tobago: 6:0 (1:0)
21 November 2014 against Haiti: 1:0 (0:0)
25 November 2014 semi-final against World Cup participants Costa Rica: 1:0 (0:0)
27 November 2014 Final against World Cup participants Colombia: 2:0 (0:0)

In January 2015, Mexico participated in the four-nation tournament with three other World Cup participants in Shenzhen (People's Republic of China):
11 January 2015 against China 0:0
13 January 2015 against Canada 1:2 (0:0)
15 January 2015 against South Korea 1:2 (0:1)

On February 5 and 7, test matches against World Cup newcomer Ecuador took place in Mexico City. The first game they won by a goal of Nayeli Rangel 1-0. The second was won 2-0.
In March 2015, the team again took part in the traditional Cyprus Cup, meeting in the lighter Group C on 4th South Africa (2:0), 6th Czech Republic (1:0) and 9th Belgium (0:0). As the winner of Group C, Mexico met on 11 March in the match for third place on Italy, which had failed in the European World Cup qualifiers in the playoffs, and won 3-2. On May 17, a test match against the USA in Carson was lost 1-5. On 25 and 28 M