Guillermo Ochoa shares touching statement ahead of record sixth FIFA World Cup

Guillermo Ochoa is returning to Mexico to train with the national team ahead of the FIFA World Cup -Credit:Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Approaching his 41st birthday, goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa is set to link up with the Mexican national team ahead of what will be his sixth FIFA World Cup - a record he could break this summer along with Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina’s Lionel Messi. The soon-to-be free agent has spent the past season in Cyprus playing for AEL Limassol, marking the tenth team and seventh different league of his professional career.

A 152-time international, Ochoa is now heading back home, with the Mexican national team stating on Tuesday, “that starting tomorrow, the process of incorporating players from European leagues into the Mexican National Team, led by Javier Aguirre, will begin. Real Madrid star hospitalized after locker room brawl with teammate Weston McKennie on World Cup pressure and how Mauricio Pochettino has changed the USMNT Ochoa and Lionel Messi could both appear in their sixth World Cups this summer alongside Cristiano Ronaldo -Credit:Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images “The first player to join the training camp at the High-Performance Center is AEL Limassol goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa. He is the first of seven players from European leagues who will join the national team in the next two weeks for the preparation matches.

” Commemorating his return to the national team, for whom he last played in November 2024 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Nations League Finals quarter-finals win over Honduras, Ochoa shared a photo posing in a Mexico jersey, captioned, “Putting this shirt back on was never routine… it was a privilege. “Today marks the start of my final training camp. But this time, I see it differently.

With a fuller heart, more scars, more memories… and the same dream of that boy who once imagined defending this badge. “I’ve lived through impossible nights, endless stadiums, anthems that still give me chills, and moments that changed my life for ever. And yet… every time Mexico calls, something inside me starts anew.