The Mexican Primera favors a unique type of athlete…players who can regularly play at 10,000 feet (3000m) because many matches are played in and around Mexico City. And other clubs are also above 5000 feet.

Add in daytime heat, night cold, humidity and smog and you get a very different practical reality that shapes the pace and tactics of the Primeria and soccer culture in general. In turn that shapes who succeeds as a soccer playing athlete.

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scythe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is an interesting theory. But do Mexican soccer players do much better at home games?

	▲	brudgers an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Not clear what you are asking, but at the international level Azteca is notoriously advantageous…of course top European sides never visit so there’s no general empirical data. And you won’t get much more from the world cup because the only ceded European side favored to play at Azteca is England in the round of 8.