Mexican National Team: First official call of the year defines 70% of the list for the World Cup

In the last three World Cup processes, more than 70 percent of those called have almost assured a place in the World Cup to be played

Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino gave a list of 30 players for the Mexican National Team’s Concacaf World Cup qualifying matches. Of said number of elements, more than 70 percent will be in the final list of the World Cup for Qatar 2022, since the first official call of the calendar year defines said percentage, in accordance with the last three World Cup processes.

In 2010, Javier Aguirre was in charge of commanding the Tricolor for the World Cup in South Africa. His first official call-up was for the match against New Zealand on March 3.. Although he had a previous game against Bolivia, it was not official and he could not count on the European players.

In said list, which was 19 elements, just four less than what FIFA asks for a World Cup, ‘Vasco’ Aguirre confirmed 14 of those for the final list for South Africa, which meant 73 percent of the call initial.

The players called up on both occasions were Luis Michel, Francisco Rodríguez, Carlos Salcido, Rafael Márquez, Ricardo Osorio, Paul Aguilar, Héctor Moreno, Efraín Juárez, Jonny Magallón, Jorge Torres Nilo, Gerardo Torrado, Andrés Guardado, Israel Castro, Giovani dos Santos. , Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Carlos Vela and Javier Hernandez.

For Brazil 2014, Miguel Herrera came to the rescue of the Tricolor to play the playoff against New Zealand at the end of 2013 and his World Cup year began with a test against Nigeria on March 5 on the first FIFA date of the year, so it featured European players.

For that game, the ‘Piojo’ called 24 players and 18 of them ended up in the final list for the summer fair in Brazil, a situation that meant that 75 percent of the initial summoned sneaked into the World Cup.

The chosen ones were Jesús Corona, Guillermo Ochoa, Rafael Márquez, Héctor Moreno, Diego Reyes, Francisco ‘Maza’ Rodríguez, Miguel Layún, Paul Aguilar, Andrés Guardado, Héctor Herrera, Javier Aquino, José Juan ‘Gallito’ Vázquez, Carlos Alberto ‘Gullit ‘Peña, Isaac Brizuela, Giovani dos Santos, Oribe Peralta, Javier Hernández and Alan Pulido.

In this World Cup process, Luis Montes was considered in the first official call and did not arrive in Brazil due to a serious injury in the duel against Ecuador on May 31 of that year.

Finally, for Russia 2018, Juan Carlos Osorio was the national strategist and his first official call was on March 23 against Iceland. So he called 28 players and 20 of them reached the World Cup, which meant 71 percent.

Those chosen for the duel against the Icelanders and who sneaked into the summer tournament were Guillermo Ochoa, Jesús Corona and Alfredo Talavera, Edson Álvarez, Hugo Ayala, Jesús Gallardo, Miguel Layún, Héctor Moreno, Carlos Salcedo, Jonathan Dos Santos, Marco Fabián, Andrés Guardado, Héctor Herrera, Javier Aquino, Jesús Manuel Corona, Javier Hernández, Raúl Jiménez, Hirving Lozano, Oribe Peralta and Carlos Vela.

It is worth mentioning that, this time, contrary to the other World Cup processes, the official initial list will be 10 months apart from the World Cup, while in 2010, 2014 and 2018 it was barely three months, this because the World Cup was in summer and now it will be in winter.

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Mexican National Team: First official call of the year defines 70% of the list for the World Cup