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Jesús Alejandro Gómez could go from sparring to “covered” by Mexico for the World Cup

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By Edgardo Avelar

Jesús Alejandro Gómez could become the big surprise on the list of the Mexico team for him World which is 16 days away from starting, after it has impressed the national team’s coaching staff in his role as center back on the left.

Gómez did a great job in last Friday’s duel against Ghana and his exit from the left side that gave the national team the confidence of Vasco Aguirre, to the extent that he was not sent home like the rest of the players who were summoned as “sparrings”.

The players who left the concentration were Iker Fimbres, Denzell García, Luis Rey, Eduardo Águila and Isaías Violante, but the name of Jesús Alejandro Gómez never appeared, so he is expected to fight for a place until the last moment and his second great opportunity could be against Australia or even Serbia.

Who is “Pue” Gómez

Jesús Alejandro Gómez is a 24-year-old left-handed defender known in the soccer world as “Pue” and who first saw the light of day in Hermosillo, Sonora, from where he was recruited by Atlas to debut in Liga MX on March 29, 2019 in the Clausura tournament against Santos Laguna.

After Atlas, he was part of Santos Laguna as a member of the Orlegui group until Apertura 2025, where he played in the Under 23 team. despite having spent a brief time at Boavista in Portugal in 2020.

In Clausura 2026, ‘Pue’ Gómez played a total of 16 games, of which he started 9, and in which he played a total of 915 minutes. He also scored a goal against Santos on Matchday 10. It should be noted that he has a contract with Xolos until June 2028.

In the border team, he began to stand out in an important way until he was scouted by the national team’s coaching staff to be part of the support group for the game against Ghana. where he began to stand out and demonstrate that he has the capacity to be taken into account.

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So Gómez would be the big surprise of the Mexican team and would only leave room for a place that nine players would fight for like Germán Berterame, Richard Ledezma, Jesús Angulo, Luis Chávez, Marcel Ruiz, Kevin Castañeda, Carlos Rodríguez, Everaldo López and Julián Araujowhere the national coach will define these great unknowns in the coming days.

It is assured that, in the event that Gómez is called up to the World Cup, The one sacrificed will be Germán Berterame, because “Vasco” Aguirre supposedly would not take five forwards to the in-model competition. So all these arguments will be proven over the course of the next five days.

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