For: EFE Updated Jan 05, 2023, 2:22 pm EST
The Spanish Jennifer Hermoso, winner of five top scorer trophies, and the American Mia Fischel, The best scorer last year in the world at the club level, will be the figures to follow at the start this Friday of the women’s Clausura of Mexican soccer.
After a season in which he returned from injury, Hermoso, from Tuzas del Pachuca, will take on the tournament as his consecration in Mexico.
32-year-old Hermoso will go out to confirm his place in the Spanish team that will play the World Cup in Australia-New Zealand this summer and for that he will try to show his class in a pair with the Mexican Charlyn Corral, third best scorer in the world, in club tournaments, in 2023.
The pairing is one of the best attackers in the league and with it the Tuzas will go out looking for a pass to the quarterfinals to challenge the favorites Tigres, Monterrey, Guadalajara and América in that phase.
This Friday Pachuca will visit Querétaro at the start of the tournament, two hours before Guadalajara, who lost the title last December, host the Pumas UNAM.
With 33 goals, Mia was the best scorer in the world last year and will be one of the figures of the champion Tigres, A team that has another high-level attack player, the Mexican Stephanie Mayor, sixth in the list of gunners on the planet, in which the American Cristina Burkenroad, from Monterrey, is ninth.
Monterrey, led by Burkenroad, will visit Puebla on Sunday and América will visit Cruz Azu on Saturdayl, in other attractive duels of the first day that will be completed with the matches Juárez-Mazatlán, on Saturday, and Toluca-Tijuana, León-Necaxa and Santos Laguna-San Luis, on Monday.
Women’s soccer in Mexico is undergoing a renewal phase after being excluded from the World Cup and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
At the selection level, the Spanish Pedro López took charge of the selection last year, with the task of turning the team into one of the 10 best in the world, with players from the local league and those involved abroad, led by defender Kenti Robles, from Real Madrid.
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