Violence Erupts In 2026 World Cup Co-Host Mexico After Army Kills Drug Cartel Leader
Football • 6d ago
Four high-level football matches were postponed Sunday after the Mexican army killed the leader of a powerful drug cartel in a town close to the 2026 World Cup host city of Guadalajara, AP reports.
Two top-tier games — Queretaro vs. Juarez FC in the men’s tournament and Chivas vs. America in the women’s league — were postponed and two in the second division were called off.
Mexico’s national team has a friendly against Iceland scheduled for Wednesday at the Corregidora stadium in Queretaro. The Mexican football federation hasn’t made any public moves to postpone it.
Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” who led the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, was wounded in Tapalpa, Jalisco about a two-hour drive southwest of Guadalajara and he died while being flown to Mexico City
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