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America return to the top

Four days after winning the Liga MX title, Club America played a celebratory friendly against Barcelona in Dallas. The result was a 3-2 victory for the Mexican champions, but it left a significant memory: just before the final whistle, a fan jumped onto the field, ran in front of Xavi and Robert Lewandowski, ignoring them, and went to hug a Spanish player, unknown in his country, Alvaro Fidalgo, one of the stars of the Mexican champions.

have traditionally been the most powerful team in Mexican football. Owned by the Televisa media consortium, they

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