The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) announced this Thursday that the Mexican team will face on 12 June to Honduras in a friendly match at the Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta , United States.
The FMF reported that the party will form for the tour that the ‘Tri’ performs every year in the United States and in which Iceland will also be measured on 29 May .
The duel against Honduras will be played after the participation of the team led by the Argentine Gerardo Martino in the finals of the Concacaf Nations League and will serve the Mexicans in preparation for the Gold Cup that begins in July.
This will be the match 38 between Mexico and Honduras, a rivalry that Mexicans dominate with 23 wins by six wins for the Central Americans and eight emp ates. In 2021, Mexico kicked off their friendly matches in March with a 1-0 loss to Wales and a 1-0 win against Costa Rica.
This year will be very busy for Mexicans. On June 4, the ‘Tri’ will face Costa Rica in the semifinal of the Concacaf Nations League, in addition to seeking to defend its title in the Gold Cup in July and will have to get ahead of the qualifying rounds to the World Cup Qatar 2022.
Martino will give priority to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 , in which the selector sub ’23, Jaime Lozano, will have the possibility to summon Diego Lainez, from Spanish Real Betis, Edson Álvarez, from Dutch Ajax and Gerardo Arteaga, from Belgian Genk, as well as some older footballers.
Despite these losses, the Argentine coach will have a group of quality players to compete in the Gold Cup and prepare to reach Qatar, where Martino aspires to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Mexico and Brazil are the only teams that qualified for the round of 16 in each of the last seven World Cups, but my the South Americans won the World Cups in the United States 1994 and South Korea and Japan 2002, the tricolors were always eliminated in the phase of the best 16.