After playing their first 13 minutes of regular time with Fulham losing to Manchester United 1-0, at the start of the 2024-2025 Premier League season, he Mexican forward Raul Jimenez He said he was ready to be taken into account and contribute his grain of sand to Javier Aguirre’s process in the Mexican national team ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Interviewed by Fox Sports, At the end of the game against the Cottagers, Jimenez said that: “I am open, I am ready to be taken into account, eager to be there, to return, to do and contribute my grain of sand with what I can and continue contributing with whatever.”
Jiménez, after a long absence with the Aztec team, said that he closely followed the Mexico’s participation in the last Copa América 2024, where the results were not as expected and where he was surprisingly left out of the national team to make way for the famous renewal of the Tricolor that had no positive effects after being eliminated in the first round in the group that they were part of with Jamaica, Venezuela and Ecuador.
“I was there, watching all the games, the friendlies, supporting from outside as I had to do, enjoying a little of the vacation that I hadn’t had for 15 years, so long, at least. It was difficult, hard to see the team that didn’t make it past the first round, but we know that we have the strength to do it.” important players with whom we can move forward, get out of this rut,” he said in the interview, where he was asked if he had already closed the door to the Tricolor.
The so-called “Wolf of Tepeji” also stressed that he hopes to stay with Fulham for at least one more season and that he will seek to become a starter. in a team where the Portuguese coach, Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva, has told him that he has him in mind to help the team and that even after speaking with the Mexican forward he asked him to continue on the team.
“Since I arrived here at Fulham, he gave me this confidence, it is something that a player is always looking for, In the end I have this year and the possibility of one more year. I am happy and I will fight to continue playing here.“.
Raúl Jiménez has now scored seven goals for Fulham after playing 24 games in what is attempting to be his return to the top level of English football. overcoming injury problems that have increased since the skull fracture he suffered in December 2020.
Regarding the defeat against Manchester United, Jimenez said: “It was tough to lose in the last minutes, We knew it would be a tough and complicated match, it is not easy to come to Old Trafford and compete. as we did in the 90 minutes. It is not the result we wanted, but we have to keep working.”
The striker also stressed that: “I feel good, eager to continue getting minutes, to continue being active, this is just beginning and we are going to work to improve this. I have set myself the goal of having a greater participation in the team.help in whatever way I can, as much as I can, as well as do things better.”
Jiménez will be, along with Edson Álvarez and Julián Araujo, the three Mexicans on the field who will participate in the 2024-2025 season in the Premier League, while the other two Mexicans who were also hired are: Bernardo Cueva, who joined Chelsea this summer from Brentford, will be in charge of set-pieces and set-piece tactics.
Just like Elisa Ceñal, For her part, she will continue her work as a nutritionist at Aston Villa, where he arrived last season after his time with the Tuzos de Pachuca.
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