EXCLUSIVE – Mexico will host the World Cup in 2026. This country which has a passion for football is always chasing a world title. In Monterrey, in the north of the country, Los Tigres striker André-Pierre Gignac has become the icon of an entire people for ten years.
Special envoy to Monterrey
It’s almost 7:30 p.m. and the old Los Tigres stadium is filling with gold and azure jerseys. The heat of late August softens as the sun descends into the Mexican mountains. The 43,000 supporters flock with their families, and the turn of the “Libres y lokos” club begins with songs and drum rolls. Los Tigres is the club from the poor neighborhoods of Monterrey. The most dynamic city in the country has steelworks, beer breweries, and its glassworks, but this industrial epic fades behind that of its two football clubs.
So much so that Cemex, the Mexican Lafarge, the third largest cement producer in the world, headquartered in Monterrey, acquired the Los Tigres concession in the 1990s from the city’s university. Since then he has only sworn by this rebel club. As for Femsa, the country’s biggest brewer, it bought Los Rayados, the rival team, and built…
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