Luis Romo scored in the 50th minute after a mistake by Korean goalkeeper Kim Seung Gyu, to decide a hard-fought match with alternating dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mexico reached six points, three more than Korea, and five above the Czech Republic and South Africa, who drew 1-1 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the closing of Group A, on June 24th, Mexico will face the Czech Republic at the Mexico City Stadium, the legendary Azteca; and Korea will play against South Africa in Monterrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, celebrated this Thursday the Mexican national team’s 1-0 victory over South Korea in their second match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which she followed via broadcast from the National Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abMany congratulations to our National Team. Their triumph fills all of Mexico with pride\u00bb, noted Sheinbaum in a message on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sheinbaum accompanied the message with a photograph in which she appears in front of a television raising her arms and wearing a Mexican national team jersey with the number one on the back and the word president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The image shows that it is at the National Palace and she is accompanied by her husband Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Tarriba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mexico: 1 Ra\u00fal Rangel; Jorge S\u00e1nchez, Edson \u00c1lvarez, Johan V\u00e1squez, Jes\u00fas Gallardo; Erik Lira, Luis Romo (Obed Vargas m.71), Brian Guti\u00e9rrez (Orbel\u00edn Pineda m.71); Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez (Santiago Gim\u00e9nez m.80), Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones (C\u00e9sar Huerta m.84), Roberto Alvarado (Israel Reyes m.80).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selector: Javier Aguirre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Korea: Kim Seung Gyu; Lee Han Beom, Kim Minjae, Kim Moon Hwan (Eom Ji Sung 71′), Seol Young Woo (Yang Hyun Jun 71′); Lee Gih Yuk, Hwang In Beom, Paik Seung Ho (Cho Gue Sung 77′), Lee Jae Sung (Hwang Hee Chan 57′), Lee Kan Gin; Son Heung Min (Oh Hyeng Yu 57′).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selector: Myung No Hong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goals: 1-0, m.50: Luis Romo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Referee: Gustavo Tejera, from Uruguay. Booked Lee Kan Gin and Paik Seung Ho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Incidents: Group A match of the FIFA World Cup between the national teams of Mexico and Korea, held at the Guadalajara Stadium, in front of 45,522 fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guadalajara (Mexico) (EFE).- The Mexican national team defeated South Korea 1-0 this Thursday in a match for the second round of Group A of the 2026 World Cup played at the Guadalajara Stadium and became the first team to qualify for the round of 32. You might be interested in: Rub\u00e9n Vargas makes history as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[43738,43601,40231,43735],"class_list":["post-511732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-breakingnews","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thenewspaperoftruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-297K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/OBJ_20260619T030209S0012I_1_1_1_43_3_1.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/OBJ_20260619T030209S0012I_1_1_1_43_3_1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"M\u00e9xico](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/OBJ_20260619T022915S0012I_1_1_1_43_3_1.webp?resize=900%2C600&ssl=1\" "\\"\\"")
Sheinbaum celebrates Mexico’s victory against South Korea at the National Palace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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