Mexico will take 22 players to the Olympics; Tokyo 2020 authorizes 4 extras

At the concentration of the Mexican team what will you go to Tokyo 2020 The calm arrived, after the Mexican Soccer Federation received this Wednesday the notification of the expansion of the number of players enrolled, so of the 18 who were going to go to the Olympics will now be 22.

Thus, the coach Jaime Lozano will not have to make the cut that anticipated and caused mixed feelings, but must call one more player to travel to Japan, after the José Juan Macías is out due to injury, so you will save the discards.

According to information obtained by Mediotiempo, the 22 players chosen by Lozano will travel to Tokyo on July 9 and they will all be available for the games against France, Japan and South Africa, although in each match four footballers must go to the rostrum and those elements may vary game by game.

In recent months, the FIFA has implemented several modifications regulations for take care of the integrity and physique of footballers, after they had to tighten the calendars due to the time lost mainly in 2020 due to the pandemic. An example of this was that he endorsed for leagues around the world that there are five substitutions and not three in the matches.

Until when does Mexico announce the list for the Olympics?

Another of the modifications made by the organization in the case of the Olympics is that El Tri has until July 2 to define the 22 players who will be in Tokyo, after it was contemplated that the deadline would be this Wednesday, June 30, when the Olympic Selection faces Panama in Nashville (8:00 p.m. Central Mexico).

Who will be Mexico’s 22nd player in Tokyo?

Jimmy Lozano has three names for replace José Juan Macías on the 22-player roster for the Olympics, being Santiago Gimenez (Blue Cross), Santiago Munoz (Santos) and Roberto de la Rosa (Pachuca) the options.

Gimenez He was on the list of players who a few weeks ago went with the Tri Olímpico to a tour of Europe, although he did not participate due to a muscle injury. For its part, Muñoz He was part of the team that obtained the pass to the Olympics in the Guadalajara Pre-Olympic and De la Rosa he has been in the Lozano process on some occasions.

At the moment, the Tri Olímpico is concentrated with 21 players in Nashville and the elements that were shaping up to be the reserve ones were the doorman Sebastián Jurado, Giménez, Fernando Beltrán and Jesús Angulo, before the FMF was notified of the rule change.

Mexico is in the Group A together with Japan, South Africa and France, the latter being his first rival on July 22 in the city of Tokyo.