By Edgardo Avelar
They say that quality cannot be bought in a pharmacy and given the great lack of talented players in Mexico, the Toluca coach, Antonio Mohamedassured that Marcel Ruiz’s knee has improved a lot and for that reason he launched the phrase that “Marcel and ten others must play the World Cup with Mexico”.
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Antonio Mohamed spoke on Fox about Marcel Ruiz’s chances heading to the World Cup. The coach assured that he does not know if the door is closed in the National Team, but he stressed that “the field speaks for itself and does not lie” about the player’s level 🇲🇽⚽🔥… pic.twitter.com/O8WvvtSvEs
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Mohamed, after the win over LAFC that gave Toluca a pass to the grand final of the Concachampions against the Tigres de la UANL, said that Marcel’s knee is “totally stable” and that this allows him to feel better on the court, because he is gaining rhythm as he plays.
“He has an injury to his knee, but it is completely stable and he is feeling great.”‘, in the sense that it has no liquid and does not move; He has more and more confidence and gains it as he plays. He took a gamble to be able to go to the World Cup and we are happy with him,” Mohamed said in an interview for the Fox network.
Mohamed was consulted about Marcel’s options to go to the World Cup, although he was not called in the first group of twelve players who already work at the High Performance Center in the south of CDMX. Therefore, he explained that he is not the one to say whether or not the door is closed for the World Cup tournament.but he joked that they would leave it until May 30 to play the final against the Tigers.
“I don’t know (about whether the door is closed), but first let the 30th play here. It’s not good for me to think that way, but the court speaks for itself and doesn’t lie. When a player is bad, the field doesn’t lie. Surely he will be looking at it and then evaluating it,” he said.
To close this topic, the Red Devils strategist was forceful in his statement about what he would do in his case with Marcel Ruiz: “What he has is a matter of time, of games for him to gain rhythm and mobility in the knee. If I were Vasco, I would take him: Marcel and 10 others.”
🔥 Antonio Mohamed has no doubts about Marcel Ruiz.
“If I were Vasco, I would have him: Marcel and 10 others,” the Toluca coach said about the Mexican midfielder, who continues playing despite a knee injury. 🇲🇽⚽https://t.co/zWrd801sqS
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