“Olympic hopefuls from Mexico say they’ve been forced to personally raise funds to cover the costs of competing in the Pan American Games, which help determine who competes in Paris next year.

State of play: The Mexican artistic swimming team, the current world champions in the technical competition, has had to depend on strangers to help pay for uniforms, airfare and other needed expenses in their quest to extend their winning streak at the games, which start next month in Chile…”

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/14/olympics-2024-paris-mexico-atheletes-funding

“Juan Ronel Toscano-Anderson is a Mexican-American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association.

He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles.

Juan Toscano-Anderson parents: Meet mother Patricia Toscano and father

He was born to his father who is an Africa American and his mother Patricia Toscano who is a Mexican American. He was born on the 10th of April 1993 in East Oakland, California, United States and he is 29 years old.

His grandfather migrated from Michoacan, Mexico in the 1940s and settle in Oakland where he was raised. He started playing basketball at the age of eight years. His parents were homeless so he spent most of his nights sleeping in cars with his mother and sister. He belongs to the Mexican-African-American ethnicity and holds Mexican/American nationality…”

https://ghanafuo.com/juan-toscano-anderson-parents-meet-mother-patricia-toscano-and-father/

“Cesar Arturo Ramos whistler at the 2018 Russia World Cup, is in charge of whistle the Mariachi Cup Final between Toros de Atlanta and Chivas Alabama, clubs that disbursed between 40 thousand and 60 thousand dollars at least, to get hold of the best possible players on the US amateur circuit, many of them former Liga MX players from professional clubs in Central America or even from South America…”

https://d1softballnews.com/how-much-do-former-soccer-players-earn-in-talacha-this-is-how-it-works-in-the-us/

“BEIJING (AP) — They said he should play soccer. They said figure skating was for girls. They said winter sports made no sense in temperate Guadalajara.

But none of those naysayers deterred Mexican figure skater Donovan Carrillo, the rare Latin American athlete at the Winter Games, who has now become an even more rare Beijing Olympics success story – however relative – from that part of the globe.

Carrillo had a career-best performance in the marquee sport of the Winter Games on Tuesday at Capital Indoor Stadium, featuring a well-executed quad toe loop and difficult triple axel.”

https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/mexican-skater-is-a-rare-latin-american-at-winter-olympics/

“…The Mexican federation (FMF) is winning the script to the United States Soccer Federation, this time by hiring former US youth coach, Hugo Perez as a USA based scout. The former USMNT player and US National Hall of Famer will seek to give Mexican-American youth more possibilities to grow as professionals.
In an interview with SoccerAmerica held after the FMF youth visor camp in Southern California, Perez talked about his new job with the Mexican federation. “I’m doing this because I want the kids to have opportunities. I just want them to have more than one choice. If one national team doesn’t want them, maybe the other one does. For me, the most important thing is providing opportunities.”
The courting of the Mexican-American talent comes after a Mexican law modification in 1998 that allows US-born Mexican-American to obtain Mexican citizenship, increasing the scouting on the American side of the border…”
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“…Dan Guerrero’s time in Westwood is officially ticking toward its end.
The UC Regents voted unanimously Thursday morning to extend the UCLA Athletics director’s contract from Dec. 31 to June 30, 2020, the Los Angeles Times reported. Guerrero agreed at Wednesday’s UC Regents meeting that he will end his tenure with the Bruins at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year.
UCLA Athletics released a statement Thursday claiming it would utilize a professional firm to conduct a nationwide search for Guerrero’s replacement this fall. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block requested Guerrero’s contract be extended from December to June in order to maintain continuity and ample time to conduct the search for his replacement.
Guerrero said his two reasons for retiring were to spend more time with his wife and newborn granddaughter and to take time to recover after an ultimately successful battle with cancer over the last 18 months…”
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