2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup

On June 9, 2011, the names of five Mexican players were released announcing Christian Bermúdez, Édgar Dueñas, Guillermo Ochoa, Francisco Javier Rodríguez and Sinha, all tested positive for clenbuterol prior to the start of the 2011 Gold Cup. They were withdrawn from the squad a few days after their June 5 Gold Cup starting match and 5-0 win against El Salvador.[6] Mexican officials said they believed the positive tests were caused by eating meat tainted with the drug.[7] CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer said a meeting of the confederation's national teams committee, which also serves as the organizing committee of the Gold Cup, was to be convened on June 10 to consider the situation, including possibly allowing Mexico to replace the five players. However, the meeting was postponed to allow for more information to be gathered.[8] The Mexican Football Federation said on June 14 that the "B" samples of those five involving players were negative.[9] The CONCACAF Gold Cup Organizing Committee announced on June 19 that Mexico would be allowed to replace the suspended players.[10] The replacement players were, Luis Ernesto Michel, Héctor Reynoso, Paul Aguilar, Marco Fabián, and Hiram Mier.[11] All players were later acquitted by the Mexican Football Federation and the results were blamed on contamination of meat, with the ingestion of clenbuterol considered non-intentional.[12] However, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to request a ban.[13] On 12 October 2011, WADA withdrew the request after the full file was available for them.[14][15]

On September 20, 2013, the Salvadoran Football Federation banned 14 Salvadoran players banned for life due to their involvement with match fixing while playing with the El Salvador national team over the previous two years, including 8 players (Dennis Alas, Luis Anaya, captain Marvin González, Reynaldo Hernández, Miguel Montes, Dagoberto Portillo, Osael Romero, Ramón Sánchez and Miguel Montes), from El Salvador's 5-0 loss to Mexico on June 5 at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[16]

7 goals

• Javier Hernández

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• Clarence Goodson (playing against Panama)

Golden Boot Award	Most Valuable Player Award	Best Goalkeeper Award	Fair Play Award
Javier Hernández	Javier Hernández	Noel Valladares[17]	Mexico

The Fair Play Award was awarded to Mexico because they accumulated the fewest cards.

Best Saves [18] # Individual Rival 1 Tim Howard Canada 2 Alfredo Talavera Honduras 3 Noel Valladares Costa Rica 4 Noel Valladares Mexico 5 Keylor Navas Mexico 6 Jaime Penedo United States 7 Miguel Montes Costa Rica 8 Dennis Marshall Honduras 9 Ricardo Jerez Grenada 10 Franck Grandel United States

Best Goals [19] # Individual Rival 1 Giovani dos Santos United States 2 Landon Donovan Mexico 3 Andrés Guardado Costa Rica 4 Javier Hernández Guatemala 5 Jozy Altidore Guadeloupe 6 Rodolfo Zelaya Costa Rica 7 Joel Campbell Cuba 8 Omar Daley Grenada 9 Carlos Ruiz Mexico 10 Pablo Barrera United States

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Mexico	6	6	0	0	22	4	+18	18	Champions
2	United States (H)	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12	Runners-up
3	Panama	5	2	2	1	7	6	+1	8	Eliminated in Semi-finals
4	Honduras	5	1	2	2	8	5	+3	5
5	Jamaica	4	3	0	1	7	2	+5	9	Eliminated in Quarter-finals
6	Costa Rica	4	1	2	1	8	6	+2	5
7	El Salvador	4	1	2	1	8	8	0	5
8	Guatemala	4	1	1	2	5	4	+1	4
9	Canada	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4	Eliminated in Group stage
10	Guadeloupe	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0
11	Grenada	3	0	0	3	1	15	−14	0
12	Cuba	3	0	0	3	1	16	−15	0