Toluca (Mexico), Jan 7 (EFE).- Argentine Antonio Mohamed, two-time champion with Mexican team Toluca, stated this Wednesday that his team has all the conditions to compete for the titles of the Concacaf Champions Cup and the League.
“We have never been considered favorites, but we have done the merits to be. For this year we kept almost the entire squad, we strengthened several lines and we have a lot of hunger and quality to go for the league and Concacaf; we are going for both titles,” he told reporters.
The current Mexican champion will debut this Saturday in the Clausura tournament on the Monterrey court.
He admitted that this year it will be very difficult to surpass what was done in 2025, in which they were champions of the Clausura and Apertura.
But he said he feels that they are under pressure to win the Concacaf Champions Cup.
“To improve this year we must win Concacaf and the two leagues, it is complicated, but they are scenarios to which we have become accustomed. We want to play in the finals of each tournament. Excuses about how tight the calendars will be due to the national team calls are of no use. We are going to try to win with what we have,” he stressed.
He explained that not all of his players are fully fit for their debut with Monterrey because they played the final of the Apertura 2025 tournament on December 14.
“We had little preparation time, but we are going without excuses to compete in Monterrey with the aim of leaving with the first victory, even though not all of our players are one hundred percent,” he concluded.
Among the reinforcements that arrived at the Red Devils for this tournament are Sebastián Córdova, Jorge Díaz Price and Pável Pérez.
Héctor Herrera, Mexican World Cup winner in 2014, 2018 and 2022, Paraguayan Robert Morales, Juan Pablo Domínguez and Ronaldo Beltrán left the team.
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