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Enlarge Photo Mexican player Cuauhtemoc Blanco poses before his international friendly soccer match against Chile at Azteca... REUTERS - Factbox on Mexico who are in Group A at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa:Colours: Green shirts, white shorts, red socks
Nickname: La Tri or Tricolor
Previous World Cup appearances - 13: 1930, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006
Best World Cup performance: quarter-finals 1970, 1986
Coach: Javier Aguirre
Most capped player: Claudio Suarez 178
Top goalscorer: Jared Borgetti 46
Talking point:
Aguirre has a dilemma deciding who will be the first-choice goalkeeper between his old favourite Oscar Perez, Guillermo Ochoa whose form has dipped recently, and Luis Michel, who has been outstanding lately. He planned to rotate them during the warm-up friendlies.
Players to watch
Cuauhtemoc Blanco, who at the age of 37 can still produce sublime moments of skill, plus the young Dos Santos brothers, Giovani and Jonathan, Carlos Vela and Javier Hernandez who are the pick of the new guard in the Mexican side and could help their country to go far.
(Compiled by Rex Gowar; Editing by Clare Fallon;
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