Where Do You Hang Something Like That?

Mexican side Pachuca became the first Mexican team to ever win a South American cup last night when they defeated Chile's Colo Colo in the Copa Sudamericana. Pachuca's Damian Alvares took home the most valuable player honors, which include not only the nice trophy you see above, but also a brand new Nissan. Mexico's oldest club came back from being a goal down at a frenzied estadio Nacional in Santiago to take the second-leg 2-1 and the tie 3-2 on aggregate.

The only blight for Mexican soccer in the last couple of days came in Japan early this morning. Mexico City's Club America got their asses handed to them by European champions Barcelona. The FIFA Club World Cup semifinal was over 11 minutes into the game as the Catalan giants cruised to victory and booked their ticket to the final where they'll face Internacional of Brazil.


Seat-filler Ronaldinho will face off against a team from his home town, Porto Alegre. Though he never played for Internacional, he did suit up 110 times for their Gre-Nal rivals Gremio from 1998 to 2001.

Pachuca stun Colo Colo to win Sudamericana [Yahoo!]
Ronaldinho directs Barca to final [CNN]

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