With their game against Seattle coming up on Wednesday, we asked Tijuana media relations manager Ivan Orozco to give us the 101 on the border club.
Speaking before his club’s 3-1 win over Veracruz spoke to us on a range of subjects.
In this second installment, Orozco talks about how the arrival of the club in Tijuana changed people’s perception of their own city from a previously negative view, admits that he speaks better English than Spanish and talks about the question whether Xolos can become “America’s Team” as time loosens generations of young Hispanics’ attachments to their parents’ and grandparents’ sides.
“I think so. They call them millennials, people born in this era. They grew up with MTV. They grew up in the United States. They grew up with different pop culture items that relate to their peers in school not to what their mum and their dad watched. Our team caters to the younger population and we’re that pop culture team.”
Given the number of US flags proudly waving at their tailgates, it seems that they are beginning to make inroads on that path.
Xolos play Seatte Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field on March 24.
See Also:
Ivan Orozco’s Xolos primer Part I
Tijuana Xolos – the most American of Mexican clubs
Tijuana inflict first defeat of season on Veracruz
Top 5 LIGA MX title contenders
