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Mexico’s 1990 World Cup Disqualification — The Cachirules Scandal

8m | Nov 10, 2026

Why was Mexico missing from the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy? The trail begins at a 1988 CONCACAF youth tournament in Guatemala, where Mexico fielded four overage players, and leads to an official federation yearbook that gave sports journalist Antonio Moreno a reason to dig. The story of Los Cachirules follows how Mexican reporters uncovered the age fraud, why FIFA extended the ban to the senior national team, and who paid the price for decisions made by the Mexican Football Federation.

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