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By: EFE Updated 01 Nov 2022, 7: 29 am EDT
The Mexican soccer team left this Monday from Mexico City to Girona (Spain), where he will make his last tour before making his debut in the Qatar World Cup 2022 the next 22 November against Poland.
“ We travel with all the enthusiasm and commitment to leave everything on the field for #MéxicoDeMiVida“, El Tri shared on his Twitter account.
The Mexicans left for Girona with a base of soccer players from the Mexican league and Héctor Herrera, midfielder for the American Houston Dynamo.
Among the soccer players who got on the plane are Guillermo Ochoa, goalkeeper of the s Águilas del América; Alexis Vega, winger of Chivas del Guadalajara, and Rogelio Funes Mori, striker for the Rayados del Monterrey .
The last to join the group that traveled to Spain were the members of the Tuzos del Pachuca: Kevin Álvarez, Luis Chávez and Erick Sánchez, who this Sunday were proclaimed champions of the Apertura tournament 2022 by beating Toluca in the final.
It is expected that later the players who play in European football will be integrated, among which Edson Álvarez, midfielder for Dutch Ajax, and Hirving Lozano, for Italian Napoli.
All the soccer players who got on the plane are part of a list of 31 that the Argentine Gerardo Martin o, coach of Mexico, announced last Wednesday , from which the 26 that will compete in the World Cup.
In Girona, Mexico will begin a concentration in which they will play two friendly matches, against Iraq, on November 9, and against Sweden, the 16.
Martino has been in Girona since last Friday, where he has prepared the last details to receive his players, who will meet him in a few hours.
Mexico is part of the group C of Qatar and after challenging Poland , will face the 26 from November to Argentina and will close the first round when they meet on 30 to Saudi Arabia.
In Qatar, Mexicans seek to overcome the barrier of round of 16, in which they have stayed in their last seven participations.
El Tri has only played the quarterfinals in the twice that it has hosted the World Cup, 1970 and 1986.
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