Rayados de Monterrey striker German Berterame is set to become one of the big news items in Javier Aguirre’s first list for the FIFA date in September against New Zealand and Canada, according to several newspaper reports that claim that the The Argentine forward naturalized Mexican already has his official documents to be taken into account.
Berterame, with 13,126 minutes played in Liga MX since his debut with Atlético de San Luis in the 2019 Apertura tournament, has demonstrated his ability and a goal-scoring instinct that has allowed him to earn a prominent place in the Liga MX.
The version arises because it is supposedly claimed that Berterame has been in contact with Javier Aguirre’s technical team for a possible call, taking into account that he has fully complied with the naturalization procedures that would allow him to represent the Mexican national team.
Within all the data that has been handled, Berterame was ready to be called in the Jaime Lozano process, but the national coach together with the high command of the The Mexican Football Federation decided to hire Guillermo Martínez and the option of him being called up was improved chance.
For now, Berterame, if his call is confirmed, would be competing for the starting position with Raul Jimenez from Fulham, Henry Martin from America and Santiago Gimenez from Feyenoordwho will also be called up to face Canada and New Zealand.
In turn, the striker, when his call is made official, would be the eighteenth naturalized player in the history of the Mexican national team since the Peruvian Julio Lores who defended the colors of the Aztec team 89 years ago.
Faced with this possibility, it is undoubtedly necessary to wait for the call of another naturalized citizen, Instead of being a source of pride for the Mexican national team’s management, It should be proof that there is less and less work being done by the basic forces to generate Mexican-born forwards who can represent the national team.
Just to give an example, there are more than 120 players with Mexican roots. that circulate abroad and whose parents are former foreign players who played in Mexican soccer and who have the luxury of rejecting the green jersey, as is the case with Luka Romero.
The complete list of naturalized players on the Mexican national team is:
July 1st Lores/Peru
2 Lorenzo Camarena/Spain
3 Jose Lopez Herranz/Spain
4 Jorge Romo/Cuba
5 Carlos Blanco Castañon/Spain
6 Carlos “El Charro” Lara/Argentina
7 Gabriel Caballero/Argentina
8 Antonio Naelson “Sinha”/Brazil
9 Guillermo Franco/Argentina
10 Matias Vuoso/Argentina
11 Leandro Augusto/Brazil
12 Lucas Ayala/Argentina
13 Damian Alvarez/Argentina
14 Cristian “Chaco” Gimenez/Argentina
15 Rogelio Funes Mori/Argentina
17 Julian Quinones/Colombia
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