{"id":599010,"date":"2026-04-11T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:06:10","slug":"mexico-write-history-against-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599010\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Write History Against Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History was made on Friday as international competition between Croatia and Mexico began. Known as Las Serpientes, the North Americans confirmed their superior world ranking as they overcame Croatia at Stadion Park Mlade\u017ei in Split, Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico defeated Croatia 33-17 in Friday\u2019s test match on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It was the world\u2019s 38th ranked team beating the 51st ranked side in an away international.<\/p>\n<p>The match was game two of a two-match-tour for Mexico. It was also the first-ever tour of Las Serpientes in Europe. Game one was in Prague, Czechia with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americasrugbynews.com\/2026\/04\/03\/mexico-fall-to-czechia-in-historic-first-test-match-in-europe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Czechia completing a 54-27 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38610 tie-appear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/logo-mexico-serpientes-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"49\"\/><br \/>MEXICO<br \/>1 Bryan Eduardo Garay, 2 Alberto Mizael Loredo, 3 Esteban Vi\u00f1as, 4 Sebasti\u00e1n D\u00edaz Galv\u00e1n, 5 Thomas Ficher Vesey, 6 Jean Paul Zisa Covarrubias, 7 V\u00edctor Ernesto Oliva, 8 Samuel Rojas, 9 Andr\u00e9s Rodr\u00edguez, 10 Christian \u00c1lvarez, 11 Jos\u00e9 Larraga, 12 Luc Mart\u00edn Olivo, 13 Connor Olvera, 14 Christopher Antonio Reyes, 15 Diego S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Borja Mandaluniz, 17 Angel P\u00e9rez Hern\u00e1ndez, 18 Axel D\u00edaz Mart\u00ednez, 19 Alan Gut\u00ederez Gaona, 20 Omar Tejeda Rios, 21 Rodrigo Mu\u00f1oz Ledo Sendra, 22 Brandon Arriaga, 23 Alonso Ram\u00edrez<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History was made on Friday as international competition between Croatia and Mexico began. Known as Las Serpientes, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,245452,260540,85,446],"class_list":["post-599010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-americas-north","tag-rugby-europe","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}