At the 2022 World Cup, Mexico beat Saudi Arabia in their last game of the group stage, but it wasn’t enough to win the Mexican team a spot in the round of 16. The failure to advance this year was just one in a decades-long string of so-close-you-can-taste-it losses for El Tri, as the national team is known.
For this story, I traced the Mexican soccer team’s history back to the first World Cup in 1930 and created a visualization allowing readers to see the ups and downs of their favorite team (Mexico or one of this year’s round of 16 participants) over the years.
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