The Argentine naturalized Mexican will have his first experience with El Tri in the Gold Cup
Gerardo Martino has called up seven players who can play in the center-forward position since Raul Jimenez, who was the ‘9’ holder of the Mexican National Team, suffered a skull fracture. Rogelio Funes Mori is the new bet of the ‘Tata‘, who has suffered to find a replacement for the Wolverhampton attacker.
Jiménez was injured in November 2020. After Raúl’s skull fracture, seven months and seven games have passed, in which Gerardo Martino has used as forward centers Hirving lozano, Henry Martin Y Alan Pulido.
However, for the last pre-list the names of Jose Juan Macías (ruled out due to injury) and Alexis Vega, who has already led the Argentine in El Tri, in addition to the news of Eduardo Aguirre, who was cut for the final Gold Cup list and is aiming for the Olympics, Y Rogelio Funes Mori, attackers who received their first call to the senior team that is currently directed by ‘Tata’ Martino.
Although it is not his natural position, the ‘Chucky’ has become the favorite center forward of the strategist. Lozano has started, as ‘9’, three of the seven games that El Tri has played after Raúl Jiménez’s injury, while Henry Martín has started three of them and sealed the victory against Panama in the last friendly.
In those seven games, the Mexican team has scored eight goals. Three of them have been from ‘Chucky’ Lozano, two from Diego Lainez, while Jesus ‘Tecatito’ Corona, Henry Martín and Cesar Montes they contributed a bit.
This Thursday, within the Tri’s official call for the Gold Cup, the call of Rogelio Funes Mori was confirmed, recently naturalized Mexican, who will live his first experience with the Mexican National Team and will occupy the position of center forward with Alan Pulido.
For his part, despite the fact that Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández lives a great present with the Galaxy and is the Tri’s historic scorer, he was not part of the final list for the Gold Cup.