Mexico will combine leadership, packaging and international contact in the 2026 World Cup

Under the premise that the Mexico team does not have a pound chickpea in its ranks like squads like Argentina have with Lionel Messi, Brazil with Neymar Jr. and Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo, will base their strength on World Cup in the leadership and international contact of several of its players, as well as with the packaging of most of its lines.

It would be audacious to say that the Aztec team has those kinds of players who with a single play change the course of the games. For this reason, the strength of the team led by the experience of two World Cups by Javier Aguirre and a high-level career by Rafael Márquezwill try to ensure that the 26 players they chose were the correct ones.

Mexico will base its strength on the experience and leadership of players such as Guillermo Ochoa, Jorge Sánchez, César Montes, Johan Vázquez, Jesús Gallardo, Luis Romo, Edson Álvarez, Luis Chávez, Orbelín Pineda, Roberto Alvarado, Alexis Vega and Raúl Jiménez.

The key question will be whether the 26 chosen will have the ability to justify their presence on the World Cup list to be able to aspire to something more than a discreet performance, much more because on their backs there will be a great responsibility.

Above all, to be able to correspond once again to the dreams of millions of Mexicans who since 1970 have been waiting for their team to step with authority in FIFA’s highest competition and who throughout the last 56 years have eagerly waited for their dreams to become a reality.

The goal with the weight of Memo Ochoa’s career

Beyond the fact that Guillermo Ochoa is not supposedly considered as a starter for the start of the World Cup on June 11, without a doubt the five World Cups on the backs of the current goalkeeper of AEL Limassol of Cyprus will be fundamental in promoting the success of Raúl “Tala” Rangel.

Memo’s sobriety and vision have been key to being considered a stronghold of the Mexican goal in the World Cups in Brazil 2013, Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, where the goalkeeper had outstanding performance like that game against the Brazilians in their own home, the Germans on Russian soil in 2018 and on Qatari lands in 2022.

The work of Memo’s tutor will be classic to calm the nerves of “Tala” Rangel and the impulse and support so that Carlos Acevedo is ready for any contingency in the World Cup, where Memo Ochoa He would wait for the option of playing at least a few minutes in his glorious farewell with his sixth World Cup event under his belt.

A defense with a lot of experience, but little support

The defense of the Mexican team cannot complain about a lack of experience. It undoubtedly has the contribution of World Cup players who have mostly developed in Europe, as in the case of Jorge Sánchez (PAOK Thessaloniki of Greece), César Montes (Lokomotiv of Russia) and Johan Vázquez of (Genoa) of Serie A which undoubtedly represent the backbone of a compulsory block in the aspirations of the Tricolor.

These players will have the support of an impetuous and talented Mateo Chávez, also with experience in Europe with AZ Alkmaar of the Netherlands, along with the talented work of Jesús Gallardo, World Cup winner in Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022which currently make him one of the most important wing-backs.

Another with World Cup experience is Luis Romo, with World Cup experience and who defends the colors of Chivas and whose versatility allows him to become another relevant variant and a transcendental contribution at the time of the critical moments in the recent World Cup.

Complete this list: Ismael Reyes, from América, who has an important career in Liga MX with América, but without the international contact of his teammates, that could be the difference when it comes to jumping onto the playing field.

The midfield, the difference between success and failure?

Without fear of being wrong, much of the success or failure that the Mexican team may have lies in the midfield with players such as Edson Álvarez, Erik Lira and Álvaro Fidalgo, who give Javier Aguirre’s performance the strength and versatility that could modify the complicated matches that they will have in the World Cup.

The weight of the experience passes through the two-time World Cup winner Edson Álvarez in Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, which allows him to be considered the benchmark of an area that came to find the freshness of players like Erik Lira and Álvaro Fidalgo, who ended up consolidating themselves in Cruz Azul and América, to now have this great opportunity.

Edson Álvarez provides strength and technique to generate the national team’s output, while Erik Lira, although it took him a while to develop his talent, has found the formula to be considered one of the key elements in the functioning of the national technicianl.

But against Álvarez is the lack of football rhythm after undergoing surgery to alleviate a chronic ankle condition; He underwent the medical procedure on February 17, which takes away a lot of baggage on the field and that could take its toll on the most experienced player in that Tricolor area.

Then comes Fidalgo, who arrived in Mexico six years ago and grew until he was considered a contribution to the operation. which requires Vasco’s tactical stoppage in the national team, taking advantage of his great ball handling and wide vision on the field of play.

But the contribution of Luis Chávez will be very important due to his experience in the World Cup in Qatar, where his great goal is still remembered. against Saudi Arabia that was not enough to help Mexico advance to the next phase.

Closing the list are the promises Obed Vargas from Atlético de Madrid and Gilberto Mora from the Xolos de Tijuana, who will jump into the World Cup challenge in search of the complicated panorama of becoming a reality that can refresh this area of ​​the team, which will be the key in the World Cup tournament.

Mexico needs Mora’s talent and change of pace, but the weight of the World Cup is what could work against them and for that reason, the weight of responsibility will fall on Edson Álvarez and Luis Chávez due to the World Cup experience they have and that will be the key to sheltering the rest of the players in that area who have quality, but not experience and that cannot be bought in a pharmacy.

A forward with a lot of quality, even so with little World Cup experience.

The forward of the Mexican team has a lot of quality, but little experience, since, except for Raúl Jiménez, Alexis Vega and Roberto Alvarado with World Cup experience, the rest of their teammates, such as Santiago Giménez of AC Milan, Julián Quiñones of Al Al-Qadisiya, César Huerta of Anderlecht, will have a lot of friction in Europe; However, without having weighed what a World Cup tournament represents.

The list is completed with Liga MX players: Guillermo Martínez of the Pumas, Brian Gutiérrez of Chivas and Armando González of Chivaswho will try to contribute their capacity and quality, but without that international weight that could be the difference when it comes to giving capacity to the Mexican team.

Much of the success or failure of the Tricolor can depend on what the men in front of the Mexican team do or do not do, which is why the coach Javier Aguirre is betting on the experience and international contact of several of themas well as the youth and drive of young people who seek to make a difference.

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