By Wilson Florez
09 Dec 2023, 09:57 AM EST
The Mexican team has begun its path to the 2024 Copa América, after their rivals were announced. El Tri has just won the 2023 Gold Cup, but Christian Martinoli considers this a minuscule achievement that does not erase the failure of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The 2022 Qatar World Cup was a complete failure for El Tri. Led by Gerardo Martino, the Mexican team was eliminated in the group stage. Mexico shared a sector with Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Poland.
After the Tata process came a short cycle of Diego Cocca. The Argentine left the position after generating many doubts in his matches. Jaime Lozano took command of El Tri and the Gold Cup was the tournament that allowed him to take over the Aztec bench.
“Jimmy” won the 2023 Gold Cup after beating Panama in the final with a goal from Santiago Giménez. The doubts have dissipated, but Christian Martinoli believes that this competition is not enough to measure the changes at the football level of El Tri.
“One of the decisions was to pretend that the Gold Cup is something important. The Gold Cup has never been important, the Copa América is important, the World Cup is important. Mexico came from a disgusting debacle in Qatar and now what they have sought is to make the victory in a Gold Cup where the United States and Canada used substitutes and Mexico ended up winning,” said Martinoli in an interview for the ESTO newspaper.
The changes for the development of Mexican soccer
A few weeks ago, Mexico was humiliated in the round of 16 of the U-17 World Cup. El Tri lost 5-0 against Mali. This result was one more symptom of the problems in the Mexican training categories that They will not be in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Christian Martinoli proposes trying out many more footballers in the Mexican team. The analyst considers that in the Aztec team they should not “marry” players and that be summoned regardless of their poor performance. The expansion of the universe of Mexican soccer players would promote competitiveness in the “Concacaf Giant.”
“There are many things to improve in the Mexican team, To begin with, improve internal competition, have much more evidence of new players, see new faces constantly. It is very clear that there are players who have been through several World Cups and we have had the same results. It is time to try with others to begin to feel that Lozano manages the selection and they do not handle it,” he explained.
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