{"id":36842,"date":"2025-03-24T05:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/mexico-wins-first-nations-league-final-thanks-to-raul-jimenez-double\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T05:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:21:45","slug":"mexico-wins-first-nations-league-final-thanks-to-raul-jimenez-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/mexico-wins-first-nations-league-final-thanks-to-raul-jimenez-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico wins first Nations League final thanks to Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez double"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Fulham striker scored all four of Mexico\u2019s goals in LA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/23\/canada-usmnt-nations-league-third-place\">Canada defeated a lackluster US in the third-place game<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez scored his second goal on a penalty kick in the second minute of second-half stoppage time, and Mexico beat Panama 2-1 Sunday night to win the Concacaf Nations League tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez, the 33-year-old Fulham striker, dominated the week at SoFi Stadium with all four of Mexico\u2019s goals in <em>El Tri<\/em>\u2019s two matches. He scored on a header in the eighth minute against Panama, and he finally cashed in on the penalty awarded when defender Jos\u00e9 C\u00f3rdoba touched the ball with his inexplicably outstretched arm while chasing after it in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/mar\/24\/mexico-concacaf-nations-league-panama-raul-jimenez\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fulham striker scored all four of Mexico\u2019s goals in LA Canada defeated a lackluster US in the third-place game Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez scored his second goal on a penalty kick in the second minute of second-half stoppage time, and Mexico beat Panama 2-1 Sunday night to win the Concacaf Nations League tournament for the first &#8230; <a title=\"Mexico wins first Nations League final thanks to Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez double\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/mexico-wins-first-nations-league-final-thanks-to-raul-jimenez-double\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mexico wins first Nations League final thanks to Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez double\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}