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After Seismic World Cup Debut, Chucky Lozano Eyes New Ground for Mexico

Another World Cup, another set of questions regarding Mexico getting over the round-of-16 hump. Despite El Tri’s shaky qualifying campaign and injury woes, their star has belief.

It was 11:32 a.m. on June 17, 2018, when an earthquake struck Mexico City. It was small and seemingly insignificant, nothing like the devastating tremors in its past, but Aztec mythology prophesied that this world of the Fifth Sun will end in an earthquake—so there is always some reason for concern. Soon after, seismologists released a statement:

The earthquake detected in Mexico City originated artificially.