Mexico World Cup roster: Projecting Javier Aguirre's 26 players
Mexico national team manager Javier Aguirre will soon reveal his full list for the tournament. Here's our best guess about who will make the cut.
It is a special World Cup for Mexico, with El Tri playing its group stage on home soil. Win the group? The next two games also would take place in Mexico.
Things have gone well for Mexico when it has hosted the World Cup. In both 1970 and 1986, the national team won a knockout match — something it then failed to do despite having a strong generation of players who excelled abroad . Manager Javier "Vasco" Aguirre is back for his third stint leading the national team, hoping that a home crowd once again helps push El Tri deep into the knockout stages.
Mexico has the added quirk of having some of the squad already together. Aguirre and Liga MX owners struck an agreement before the season that players called up for his World Cup squad would be released in the first week of May. Those players, we believe, are guaranteed to make the World Cup roster.
Our projections reflect those call-ups. Who will make Mexico's final list? We project the full 26-man squad here: Mexico goalkeepers: Raul “Tala” Rangel, Carlos Acevedo, Guillermo Ochoa Every since América goalkeeper Luis Angel Malagon suffered an Achilles injury , this looked to be the most likely trio of players.
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