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There is no doubt that today Santiago Giménez is the Mexican striker with the best form. El Bebote has established great records in the Netherlands and lifted the Eredivisie trophy. But not many believed in his capabilities. Before the Qatar World Cup 2022 there was the dilemma of which forwards to summon. The exclusion of Giménez was a controversial issue and Jaime Ordiales revealed the arguments for that decision.
Gerardo Martino He was heavily criticized at the time for the decision of leave Santiago Giménez out of the call. Tata preferred to take other pieces like Raúl Jiménez and Rogelio Funes Moritwo attackers who had been highly questioned within El Tri. Jaime Ordiales revealed the reasons that left Bebote without the World Cup.
“Tata Martino considered that Raúl Jiménez and Rogelio Funes Mori gave him something that he had not yet found in Santiago Giménez. He loved it, because he saw it with many conditions. He had to make decisions. I know Santi perfectly and I think he had conditions that could contribute to the World Cup”, revealed the former manager in a conversation with Fernando Schwartz.
🇵🇹 Gonçalo Ramos, 21 years old: he had to replace Cristiano Ronaldo with Portugal and scored a hat-trick in his first start in the world cup.
🇲🇽 Santiago Giménez, 21 years old: he did not go to Qatar with Mexico because he does not have the hierarchy of Raúl Jiménez in the World Cup.# Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/g39kXZ7QPa
— Let’s talk about Blue (@Hablemosdelazul) December 6, 2022
At the end of the story, Giménez’s absence weighed a little on the World Cup. Mexico was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 with two games in which he failed to score a goal. Only in the last duel against Saudi Arabia, El Tri was able to convert.
Currently there are other circumstances. Rogelio Funes Mori and Raúl Jiménez were not even close to carrying out a scoring campaign similar to that of Bebote. In the case of Jiménez it is much more notorious, since he failed to score goals in the Premier League. This scale places much more weight towards the side of the Baby, a young attacker with great protection for the future of the Mexican National Team.
🇲🇽|Santiago Giménez (22) closes participation with Feyenoord 🇳🇱.
⚽ 23 goals.
🅰️ 2 assists.
✅ League Champion.
A first dream season for Santi, he went from less to more. His start was encouraging, but his second half of the season is spectacular.
(1/3) pic.twitter.com/r1y775h3TU— Field Vision (@VisionDeCampo_) May 28, 2023
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