Everything is ready in Japan so that the Mexico National Team opens this Thursday against the France National Team for the opening day of Olympic football in Group A in Tokyo 2020. The opening of the games will be this Friday 23 of July, but the ball will roll before the opening party.
Los Led by Jaime Lozano, they will arrive at the meeting with a solid and rolled team after playing friendlies against Romania (1-0), Australia (3-2), Panama (3-0) and Fukuyama City, they all won. And they also drew 1-1 with Saudi Arabia.
They will have as major reinforcements Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa (America), Luis Romo (Cruz Azul) and Henry Martín (America).
France will be directed by Sylvain Ripoll and will not be able to count on the best talent from that country in the Sub category – 23. However, they managed to build a competitive squad with the integration of three senior seniors: André-Pierre Gignac (Club Tigres), Florian Thauvin (Club Tigres) and Téji Savanier (Montpellier).
Technical sheet
Date: 22 July 2020
Schedules: 01 : 00 Pacific hours | 04: 00 hours of the this | 03: 00 hours from central Mexico | 03: 00 Colombia | 05: 00 Argentina
Stadium: Tokio Stadium
Where to see it
USA : NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, Peacock, fubo TV, USA Network, Telemundo, Telemundo Deportes En Vivo
Mexico : TUDN, Azteca 7, Channel 5 and Claro Sports.
Latin America : in several countries you could see it on Marca Claro and Claro Sports.
Confirmed lineups
Mexico: Guillermo Ochoa *; Jorge Sánchez, César Montes, Johan Vásquez, Érick Aguirre; Carlos Rodríguez, Sebastián Córdova, Luis Romo *; Alexis Vega, Diego Lainez and Henry Martín *. DT: Jaime Lozano.
France: Paul Bernardoni; Anthony Caci, Pierre Kalulu, Modibo Sagnan, Clement Michelin; Lucas Tousart, Téji Savanier *, Enzo Le Fée; Arnaud Nordin, Florian Thauvin *, André-Pierre Gignac *. DT: Sylvain Ripoll.
Older players who are reinforcements *.
Also read: Gignac attentive to the Tri Olímpico: “All of Mexico’s attack is dangerous not only Lainez”