The journalist of Guatemalan origin José del Valle hit the Mexican National Team hard, by arguing that he has no talent and that his soccer players play in third-tier leagues and fourth class.
During one of his speeches on the Jorge Ramos y su banda program, the analyst defended Tata Martino from his detractors, pointing out that is practically a genius because he managed to put together a team when he had no talented players to choose from, having to call footballers from mediocre leagues and inconsequential clubs.
“Gerardo Martino is a phenomenon. How difficult it must be for a coach to put together a list of 26 footballers when talent is not abundant. I don’t know if they have already reviewed the call but there are 26 from Liga MX , Two who play for Ajax (Jorge Sánchez and Edson Álvarez) in a third category League in Europe, the other who plays in the Netherlands is for PSV (Erick Gutiérrez) in the same third category “, said José Del Valle in the program broadcast by ESPN Deportes.
He plays for Cremonese (Johan Vásquez) which is a team that fights for relegation in Italy, they have another in the Houston Dynamo (Héctor Herrera) that he didn’t even mess with the Playoffs 10 tickets available. Let’s add that of AEK from Greece (Orbelín Pineda) and another from Genk from Belgium (Gerardo Arteaga) which are fourth level leagues, he added.
According to his statements, for the journalist there are only two valuable players in the national team: Raúl Jiménez and Hirving Lozano.
“The one from Wolverhampton (Raúl Jiménez) is a great footballer, but his team is last place in the Premier League. And the only exception to the rule is Chucky Lozano with Napoli, leader of Serie A and in the round of 16 in the Champions League”, he explained.
But the attack did not stop there, since there was also time to distribute firewood to the players who did not even make it to Gerardo Martino’s final list . At the same time, I take the opportunity to defend the DT, who has received a lot of criticism for leaving out Santiago Giménez, the UEFA Europa League scoring leader.
“What bothers me is that there are many who hate Tata Martino and believe that the solution is two substitutes in Europe. One is Diego Lainez whose career is to be a substitute in Betis, Braga and wherever; the other is ‘Chaquito’ Giménez, just like a substitute for Feyenoord ”, he concluded.
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