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Mexico needed to travel an extra 14,000 miles to reach next year's World Cup. Ninety seconds from elimination last month, El Tri earned the next-to-last berth in the 32-nation field by defeating New Zealand 4-2 on Wednesday night for a 9-3 aggregate win in their home-and-home playoff. ''We were expecting to be in the World Cup a long time ago, but it wasn't like that,'' Mexican goalkeeper Moises Munoz said. It was really tough, and we expected it to be tough here in New Zealand.'' Oribe Peralta had a first-half hat trick, giving him five goals in the playoff and 10 in qualifying, one behind co-leaders Robin van Persie of the Netherlands, Luis Suarez of Uruguay and Deon McCaulay of Belize.
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