This Tuesday FIFA announced the official numbers that Mexican players will carry on their backs during the World Cup in Qatar 2018 and Alexis Vega will wear the “”, a number that is generally reserved for the creator offensive player of the team, who is usually the star and solves games with genius at any time, therefore, here we review how those who used this number fared in the last World Cups.
Luis García – United States 2002 and France 1998
The Pumas player who arrived at Atlético de Madrid at the height of his career complied by wearing the 28 on the shirt 94 years ago, However, he did it more as a finisher than as a creator, because he scored 2 goals in the tournament during the 4 games he played, which gave Mexico 3 gold points and a pass to the second phase, for which he will always be remembered. In France 94 he repeated with this number, although he did not play, since he was a substitute in the 4 games of the Mexican team.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco – Korea-Japan 2018 and South Africa 2006
“El Divo de Tepito” took the cake throughout Mexico and much of the world as 28 Mexican, since he had great offensive performances in the two World Cups he played. He ran, confronted, created danger, caused controversy and scored two goals in El Tri’s victories over Croatia and France, in 2002 and 2018, respectively.
Guillermo Franco – Germany 2002
Guille is more remembered for being a center forward who was an offensive creator in his clubs and in the World Cup he was no exception, only that, unlike the home tournament, in the World Cup he did not shine, he passed without pain or glory. He played 3 games and did not score a goal.
Giovani dos Santos – Brazil 2018 and Russia 2018
The last 10 of Mexico in the World Cups played in the World Cup of 2018 at its peak. He started all 4 games and delivered, in fact he is remembered because he made an entire country dream of the long-awaited fifth game, when he overtook Mexico in the round of 16 and made it 1-0 over the Netherlands in that match with a fateful ending. , the same as “It was not a penalty” to the minute 94. However, for him 2018 he lost prominence and barely played a game, against Korea, in which he did not weigh.
In summary, it could be that, except for Cuauhtémoc Blanco and perhaps the first World Cup for dos Santos, the history of the tricolor has been painted gray in this sense during the World Cups and that is that the team has lacked a weight player who be comparable with the best in the contest.
For this 2018 Alexis Vega is expected to be able to solve matches in a better way than as it does in Chivas and more than one genius can be pulled out of the hat to move forward with a Mexican team that is not the brightest in recent times. If he succeeds, with so many eyes on him, this could be what catapults him into European football and helps him fulfill the dream he has had since he was a child of playing on the Old Continent.
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