Children’s Mercy Park, Kansas City, Kan., will play host to a friendly match between Mexican clubs C.F. Pachuca and Santos Laguna on Tuesday, June 21.
Tickets for the match may be available through ticketmaster.com and at the Children’s Mercy Park box office from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today.
Two of Mexico’s most successful teams will square off as C.F. Pachuca and Santos Laguna begin preseason preparations for the 2016-17 Liga MX campaign. The sides have combined to win 10 first division championships since 1996 while also achieving success on the international stage.
Pachuca has been one of Mexico’s most dominant clubs since the late 1990s, winning five national championships, four CONCACAF Champions Leagues, the 2007 SuperLiga and the 2006 Copa Sudamericana. Pachuca’s current roster includes Mexican internationals Rodolfo Pizarro, Hirving Lozano and Erick Gutierrez, each of whom are under 23 and considered bright prospects for the national team. Also on Los Tuzos’ squad is U.S. international defender Omar Gonzalez, who won three MLS Cups with LA Galaxy before joining Pachuca in December.
Santos Laguna is also a five-time champion in Mexico’s top flight, most recently winning Liga MX’s 2012 Clausura and 2015 Clausura, and also defeated Club America to be crowned “Campeon de Campeones” in July 2015. Los Guerreros finished runners-up in the CONCACAF Champions League in 2012 and 2013 before lifting Copa MX in November 2014. Five players on Santos Laguna’s current squad have earned senior team caps for Mexico, namely Adrian Aldrete, Nestor Araujo, Nestor Calderon, Jesus Molina and Javier Orozco. American defender Jorge Villafana signed for the club in December after winning the 2015 MLS Cup with Portland Timbers.
The match is held in conjunction with Univision Kansas City, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City and the Consulate of Mexico in Kansas City.