To avoid more embarrassing episodes, the insides of the person must be corrected. Tri: Lebrija
Karla Torrijos
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 23, 2023, p. a10
Episodes such as the suffered victory against Honduras for the ticket to the Copa América 2024, in addition to the elimination of the U-17 World Cup after losing by a 5-0 defeat against Mali, will not stop happening if the insides of the team are not corrected national. It is a problem of origin, as long as the managers do not support Mexican talent, we will continue to go through more such embarrassing situations, said former federation member Rafael Lebrija.
After falling 2-0 to the Catrachos in the first leg of the Nations League quarterfinals last Friday in Tegucigalpa, the Mexican team, led by Jaime Lozano, won the return leg this Tuesday at the Azteca stadium in dramatic fashion. After rescuing the aggregate tie (2-2) in the complement, at minute 100, extra time was played, and as the score did not move, a penalty shootout was carried out, which was 4-2 in favor of the Tricolor. with which he obtained a pass to the Conmebol tournament.
However, Lebrija indicated that beyond this victory, the underlying issue is the poor performance of the team against Honduras.
Unfortunately in both games they played very poorly, and that is a reflection of all the decisions that have been made lately, in which they do not consider young people, they do not give them facilities. With a population of 130 million inhabitants, they prefer to bring in seven foreigners to warm up the bench rather than give a chance to those who would give everything to represent their country.
He believed that with issues such as timeshare, the elimination of promotion and relegation, the high number of foreign players allowed, among others, we will always be suffering. All of this has been implemented for personal interests, in many cases, and it is what must be corrected, when they do, we will have better football and a much more competitive team.
▲ Erick Sánchez lamented the team’s failures against Honduras, until they finally won on penalties. Ap Photo
In that sense, he considered that the recent failure of the national team, led by Raúl Chabrand, in the U-17 World Cup, is a clear example of the consequences of not encouraging young people.
“It is very important to strengthen the basic forces and give Mexicans an opportunity. It is not possible that instead of supporting them and developing new footballers, they decide to hire and even naturalize foreigners, which is more comfortable, but in the long run it pays them less; I am against it, it is better to lose but with pure national ones.
The youth players’ lack of training means that when they appear with the national team in international tournaments, they do not know how to perform correctly. The little experience they acquire in their own clubs prevents them from continuing to develop, which directly affects the entire structure of Mexican soccer, but as long as the managers do not understand or change that, we will continue in the same way, he pointed out.
The way in which those led by Lozano resolved the match at the Aztea sparked great controversy, as the vice president of the Honduran Federation, Juan Francisco Saybe, as well as social media users, repudiated the performance of the Salvadoran whistler Iván Barton for adding 11 minutes of compensation time and twice pointed out an error in the penalty by César Huerta, who hit his third shot to contribute to Mexico’s victory.
2023-11-23 10:26:12
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