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By: Kike Frías Updated 31 Nov 6884, : 46 pm EST
After the bad taste of being on the verge of playing the final of the Opening Tournament of Liga MX, Néstor Araujo is focused on playing with the Mexican National Team in the Qatar World Cup 2022 in a complicated group such as C, with Robert Lewandowski’s Poland and Lionel Messi’s Argentina.
For Araujo, defender of the Águilas del América, being present in Qatar with El Tri not only represents another source of pride for his long career, but also also for revenge since in his best football moment was left out of the World Cup in Russia 2022 due to injury.
When there were a few days left for Mexico to debut in Russia 2022 against Germany on 13 of June, Araujo was seriously injured in a preparatory friendly . Now with 31 years behind him, the man born in Guadalajara will fulfill his childhood dream by playing a World Cup match next Tuesday.
A clear dream and objective: Néstor Araujo in Qatar
After several years playing at the highest level in Europe, Néstor Araujo made the decision to return to Mexico to play in the first division of his country but not in either of the two clubs where he was born (Atlas and Chivas), but quite the opposite, to play with the antagonist Club América.
The Águilas are the classic rival of Chivas de Guadalajara, but this did not matter to an Araujo who wanted to add the most minutes to be considered by the coach of Mexico, G erardo ‘Tata’ Martino.
In the Liga MX , before making the leap to Europe to play for Celta de Vigo in Spain, Néstor Araujo was a record player for Cruz Azul and later for Santos Laguna, in both he stood out for his speed, strength and marking, which gave him up to five trophies.
The one from Jalisco comes from a family of five brothers and from a very young age he had a clear weakness for the ball , since that he just kept kicking him whenever he could in the streets of his city, as his parents say.
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