The five-time World Cup winner Guillermo Ochoa and the Argentine naturalized Mexican, Germán Berterame became the two great novelties of the summoned list for the preparation games of the Mexican national team, in a call that has ignited the controversy over the call of these two players to the Aztec national team.
On the one hand, Guillermo Ochoa’s age has been the main question for his call for the preparation matches against Valencia of Spain on October 12 at the Cuauhtémoc stadium in the city of Puebla and on the 15th against the United States in the city of Guadalajara, at the Akron stadium, home of Chivas.
While with Berterame very sensitive fibers have once again been touched Regarding the call for naturalized players, former national team figures, as well as former Liga MX coaches and now TV analysts, have rejected the call of the current Rayados de Monterrey striker.
The strongest criticism has been against the presence of Berteramesince people from the football world, such as Jared Borgetti, Hugo Sánchez, Miguel, Herrera and Carlos Hermosillo, among several others, have disagreed with the presence of the recently naturalized Mexican Argentine forward.
The position in rejection of Berterame’s call It is not because of radical nationalism, but because of the true usefulness that these types of players have given him to the Mexican team, where there are already 18 elements since the first call in 2002 with the Argentine Gabriel Caballero who went to the World Cup in South Korea and Japan that same year and could only play 107 minutes in total against Croatia , Ecuador and Italy.
While Guillermo Franco, perhaps has been the most useful player for the Mexican team with participations in the 2006 World Cups in Germany and in South Africa 2010, where he added 404 minutes in total, 130 in Germany and in South Africa 2010 274 minutes.
For his part, Antonio Naelson Sinha, played 159 minutes in Germany 2006 with a single goal and finally the Argentine Rogelio Funes Mori with only 4 minutes against Saudi Arabia in Qatar 2022, which demonstrate the little specific weight of the 18 players that naturalized players have contributed throughout the history of the Mexican national team.
Memo Ochoa Case
In the case of Guillermo Ochoa, the adverse comments are that his age raises doubts regarding the usefulness that it will have to be taken into account for the 2026 World Cup and that at this time it is more important to give strength to Luis Malagón who is going through a great moment than to continue praising the history of the five-time World Cup winner.
Obviously His presence has divided opinions, since many people on social networks consider that his legacy deserves to be preserved with the opportunity to continue fighting for ownership of the goal of the Mexican national team, as long as he has a team after the opportunity that has been given to him in Portugal with the AFS Vila das Aves team, a squad of recent creation in Lusitanian football.
The rest of those summoned for the October FIFA date
For now, in the Mexican team for these two matches on the FIFA date October against Valencia from Spain and the United States, there are also other new faces such as the Mexican-American Obed, Vargas from the Seattle Sounders of the MLS, Rodrigo Huescas from Copenhagen who is called up after an injury.
Ozziel Herrera, Raúl Jiménez from Fulham also appear after almost a year of absence of the Tricolor, Alexis Vega, as well as the great veteran Andrés Guardado, but without forgetting Edson Álvarez, who returns to the Tricolor after the injury against Jamaica in the last Copa América 2024.
It should also be noted that they were not taken into account Julián Quiñones, who participates in Arab football and Santiago Giménez from Feyenoord, He is currently injured and will be out of circulation for at least the next two months.
The complete list of summoned
For now, the complete list of those summoned is made up as follows: Goalkeepers: Ángel Malagón (America), Raúl Rangel (Chivas) and Guillermo Ochoa (AFS Vila das Aves); defenses: César Montes (Lokomotiv), Jorge Sánchez (Cruz Azul), Rodrigo Huescas (Copenhagen), Obed Vargas (Seattle Sounders), Johan Vásquez (Génoa), Bryan González (Pachuca), Jesús Angulo (Tigres), Jesús Orozco (Chivas) .
Midfielders: Andrés Guardado (León), Luis Romo (Cruz Azul), Edson Álvarez (West Ham United), Roberto Alvarado (Chivas), Carlos Rodríguez (Cruz Azul), Orbelín Pineda (AEK Grecia), Marcel Ruiz (Toluca), Diego Lainez ( Tigres), César Huerta (Pumas), Alexis Vega (Toluca), Sebastián Córdova (Tigres), Oziel Herrera (Tigres); Forwards:Germán Berterame (Monterrey), Henry Martín (América), Guillermo Martínez (Pumas) and Raúl Jiménez (Fulham).
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