By FRANCO PANIZO
It’s as if Herculez Gomez never even left.
For the second time in five days, Gomez scored a goal for Puebla on Tuesday to help the club post a 2-0 victory over Atlante in their Copa MX opener. Gomez netted the insurance goal two minutes into the second half of the Group 5 encounter, getting on the end of a cross from the left and bundling it home with his right foot while attempting to head it in.
The shutout win saw the Camoteros finish the first round of group-stage games in second place in the group, even on points with Merida but with a less favorable goal differential.
Gomez, 32, has returned to Puebla after playing for the club during the 2010 Clausura. He scored a league-high 10 goals that campaign, and is now off to a great start in his second stint with two tallies in his first two games back.
You can see Gomez’s latest goal here (at the 1:00 mark):
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What do you think of Gomez’s strike? Is this the start of a red-hot tear? Are you equally as impressed to see Cuauhtemoc Blanco still playing and scoring?
Share your thoughts below.
I love the way Blanco celebrates his goals
why is Blanco still playing? Isn’t he too old? Did he not save his money? Is the mexican league so poor that a 40 year old can still start and play well?
Herc doing what Herc do.
Love to see it.
I remember how according to MLS this guy’s career was “in decline”
When did “MLS” make such a statement? And who do you refer to as “MLS”?
Jesus Christ, Blanco is still playing?!
Retirement league?
Its obvious Liga MX is not a retirement league. They are one of the better leagues in the Americas at developing their youth. Just look at their success in the past 4 years at the youth level. You don’t even need to look at that far behind, look at WCQ U-20 qualifiers. All those U-20 Kids are Liga MX home grown players.
easy, tiger–pretty sure he was joking. (you know, because blanco’s goddamn OLD.)
I think with Blanco its just a way for the MNT to still give him a paycheck for all his contribution to the National team. Talent, and conditioning is obviously out of the question.
If an MLS team want a real DP, that will give his best and run after the ball, then this is your guy.
He wants real money and no MLS team wants to take a risk on him and jozy gets millions of dollars.
Hercules has experience from ligaMX, World Cup, and even MLS, what else do you want MLS teams.
If Dallas, Houston, San Jose, don’t want this player and I mentioned those cities due to their Latino/Hispanic population then a team like galaxy or dc united should take him. Give him the money MLS, he will not fail, unless cosmos picks him up.
while i would love to have herculez at dcu, i don’t know that they would want to pay him the salary he’d demand for coming back to mls, just for him to be a spot starter, which is what he is at this age. i also don’t really know how much money dc has available to spend. (is fischy still around here? he seemed to know these things.)
and actually, doesn’t skc hold the rights to herc? thought they made him an offer before he left. not sure how long the ‘bonafide offer’ thing lasts.
You need a little History of Herculez before you start spewing garbage about him coming to MLS. First, SKC does hold his rights. According to this new thing with Jozy and multiple clubs wanting him, if Herc was going to come MLS as a DP, he would also have to go through allocation order.
Second, he doesn’t want to go to MLS. He kept saying that maybe in the future he will go (he said this 2013), then he got into a Twitter argument with Garber about SKC holding his rights, players not being paid through the CBA agreement at the time. It got really awkward.
AND when he was with the Galaxy, 2003 Seattle Sounders (not FC), and the Wiz, he barely got any playing time. He hated MLS, and now he wants to come here? No. Liga MX gave him more playing chances and now he’s flourishing. MLS doesn’t deserve him.
I’m sure you probably haven’t been following MLS closely for long, but you need to have some CONTEXT before you put reckless junk on the Internet about player acquisitions and expansion teams.
Even if Herc did want to come to the MLS, he wouldn’t get a DP offer because, sadly, he isn’t famous enough.
That’s as fast as I’ve seen Blanco run getting up to the ball on the PK. Surprised he didn’t pull a muscle.
Gomez’s beard has to be worth a little extra salary. Allocate him to Portland or some other hipster capital.