“Vasco” Aguirre wants Andrés Guardado to lead the Mexican national team

The new coach of the Mexican national team, Javier Aguirre, With his vast experience, he knows that he needs a leader with a lot of personality to put order in the Tricolor locker room and for that reason they assure, according to unofficial sources, that he has contacted Andrés Guardado to reconsider his position on the retirement he made from the Tricolor more than a year ago and that he can be called up next week to face the FIFA date of September against New Zealand and Canada.

In the first instance, Guardado would be called to occupy a place on the field of play and at the end of his year of contract with León, where things have not gone well for him, he would join as a technical assistant together with Rafael Márquez and thus be able to face with greater control of the locker room, the 2026 World Cup process that will be played in Mexico, the United States and Canada.

With the experience of five World Cups in Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, he is a player who demonstrated his ability and leadership in favor of the interests of the Mexican national team and for that reason, Aguirre would be thinking of him to take the place of the locker room boss that Edson Álvarez has, but who does not have the background of the so-called Little Prince to enhance the Tricolor locker room.

Vasco is trying to give the national team the stability they lost with the failure of the Copa America and for that reason he has thought about bringing in players with a lot of experience, which is why unofficial versions assure that even the new coach of the Aztec team contacted Guardado to ask if he would be ready to return to defend the green jersey.

Aguirre knows that the captain’s armband would fit the Esmeraldas de León midfielder like a glovebut the question is whether he would be ready to return, after he publicly announced in May of last year that it was time to make way for the new generations in the Mexican national team.

Everyone expects Aguirre to follow to the letter the instructions given by the high command of the Mexican Football Federation in not setting limits on calling up players, leaving aside the famous generational change, Therefore, it is expected that several veterans will return who seemed to have had their best days in the Aztec team.

In this way it would not be strange to see in the first call-up players like Hector Herrera from the Houston Dynamo, Raul Jimenez from Fulham, Henry Martin from America, Jesus Gallardo from Toluca, Andrés Guardado himself and even Hector Moreno of the Rayados de Monterrey.

But we will have to wait to see what the national coach’s decision is and whether he will also decide to use the Argentine Germán Berterame, who fully complied with his naturalization procedures and is ready to be considered to represent Mexico.

Another question is whether he will use Santiago Giménez who after a long scoring drought has returned to reappear against enemy goals and that could contribute to giving him a new opportunity after he came away with no goals in the 2024 Copa América.

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