PACHUCA, Mexico — In the bottom floor of the dormitory at one of Mexico’s most successful soccer academies, more than two dozen middle-school-age boys gathered last week to watch intently as Croatia crushed Argentina in a World Cup game.
They wore the orange shirts and black pants of Pachuca, a professional soccer club whose academy at the University of Football and Sports Sciences here has given the Mexican national team some of its most exciting stars at the World Cup.
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