The Mexican national team was eliminated from the 2024 Copa América that will take place performs in the United States in the group stage. Technical director Jaime Lozano could not achieve the feat of qualifying El Tri and was forced to say goodbye early to the Conmebol continental championship.
Although the team had different actions where a goal, this did not happen in the last game they had against Ecuador and the duel was tied without goals. With this result and the elimination of the Aztec national team, comments, accusations and criticism were immediately generated against the coaching staff of the Mexican team.
At the end of the match, coach Jimmy Lozano took the floor in press conference and faced the elimination of Mexico bluntly. Despite having been eliminated, the coach commented that he was satisfied with some points that the team achieved, since he was in charge of making the generational change in the national team, but goals could not be met in other aspects.
Lozano spoke in the most frontal way possible
At the time when the press questioned Lozano about the objectives of star in a generational change, Lozano had no problems in accepting that this point was carried out and fully fulfilled. However, the main goal of advancing from the group stage was not achieved.
But, from the perspective of the Mexican national team’s coaching staff, It was won on other points that are quite important despite being eliminated from the continental championship.
“I think there are many players who have not participated in a tournament. “There is this relevance, there are results, there are objectives that were not met. The most important was, obviously, to advance. The team, it seems to me, wins in many aspects,” he said.
He was also questioned about the tactical approach implemented in the group stage, and Lozano accepted the mistakes they had throughout the development of the 3 games they had in the first part of the tournament. Jimmy accepted that something that Mexico always lacked was being forceful, even though they were always generating scoring chances, but what had more weight was finally not finishing them.
Mexico was very close to advancing to the round
Lozano regretted that the team could not qualify to the quarterfinals, emphasizing that the Aztec national team lacked clarity.
“The team was always ahead, always proposed, defensively it was always very strong, but we lacked forcefulness, we lacked generating a few more options. And the ones we could have had, had a little more clarity, calm, to be able to move forward in this Cup.”
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A piece of news that took many by surprise was the support of the Federation Mexican Football Association Jaime Lozano as head coach of the senior men’s national team, but at the aforementioned press conference, Lozano acknowledged that this was a decision that was not his to make, in addition to commenting that it is normal that, with the recent result in the Copa América, it was normal that there were doubts and uncertainties in the team.
“Whenever an objective is not met, it generates discomfort and doubts, that is natural, not “It doesn’t matter who is here, it doesn’t even matter the trajectory of the person who is here, we have already experienced that… it is important to keep a report, that decision is no longer up to me, in two weeks they will decide the process”
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