qualifying table behind canada, and they've got quite a match coming up in the group stage against lena massey's argentina. also be placing saudi arabia and poland. mexico is woven into the history of the world. the stadium pack in mexico city was the 1st venue to host to world cup finals, and it was also where diego mer donna scored the famous hand of god goal and goal of the century. and the same game against england in 1986. our correspondent john holeman has more from mexico city. this is the cathedral of met conflict though. that's perhaps the real way to describe what is quite a rule kiss around the ground vs pick a stadium. and it's got a long history with the world cup to finals were played in 19701986 in general. this is a tournament, the mexicans get excited about, about 80000 people are expected to travel from here to kick off. the cheer on that team. 3 co lot. that's the nickname at for the national side, based on the 3 colors in the mexican flag. that doesn't necessarily mean that people are expecting that much from the mexico never been past the quarter finals of any well comp. and

well, cap heavy weights, argentina and brazil, and both lay down markers had of guitar. 2022, lena massey score and twice as argentina beach, jamaica 3. now it was julian alvarez who opened the scoring early on in this international friendly, which was played in new jersey and stay that way until the closing stages nessie came off the bench in a 2nd half to make it to with a strike from distance. man, a free cake has 90th goal for origin, tina wrapped it up and made a $35.00 matches unbeaten for his team. one more warm up match to play against the united arab emirates before they kick off their world cap campaign. with hollow favorites also fired a warning to their rival, the head of guitar. 2022, ne. mar and repeating. yeah. lead the ways brazil had 5 goals against tennessee in paris. so hell, molly reports, geography, brazil, of the world's top rank team. heading into catan 2022, and it gets fellow qualifies to nidia they showed exactly why. forward by casimir florrie. the south american won a lot more than 10 minutes in thanks to barcelona. when the rafino to new york on their way to 6

friendly argentine are unbeaten, more than 30 matches, and one last years copa america in brazil, 35, lena massey, is aiming to win the world cup for the 1st time in his career or find a warm up game is coming up against jamaica. we've been speaking with football broadcast her want to wrangle about the world cup chances, south americas to leading nations. whether brazil deserves to be the favorite to win a tournament. why there surely looking like, especially after the match against gunner, where they truly did whatever they want and wherever they want. however, they want it against the black stars. only one match that they've lost an official measure, competitive match, i should say that final, the couple america against argentina. and so far, you start to see a t t that begins to reinvent this brazil side because the plethora of options. it's crazy to start seeing this, but you're going to see some of the top attackers for brazil. there might be a few that might not even go to the world cup because of the depth that brazil does have. so that's going to be one of the big tests for this last nigh

but for his sister massey, lena, this is a bittersweet moment, and a bottle fit. it angers me all your life. you grow up with people, you work with them, you live next to them. and then all of a sudden they embrace the colors of russia and they are happy and smiling that they are part of russia. and while the international community has declared the referendum, illegal ukrainians fear that the vote will mean even more and more devastation before they regained control of their country. and that, that, i mean, algebra in southern ukraine, thousands of people have fled russia since flooding they have who's in issued a mobilization or to last week. prices for flights from moscow. rose after the announcement burst for places like took here, the u. e. and the former soviet republics, like georgia and our media sold out, long traffic jams have formed that land crossings into neighboring countries. roads into georgia cassock started mongolia, have seen an influx of russians looking to cross. and the crossing from st. petersburg to finland could soon be restricted. that's