Mexico is, without a doubt, one of the most soccer-loving countries in the entire world. As children, our first heroes were, in many cases, soccer players. However, in recent years this deep love has not managed to reach Mexican Soccer Team.
Reasons? There are many. And through this article, 90 min presents for you at least ten measures that the Mexican Soccer Team should take to please its fans, and, why not? Recover the illusion.
The Mexican Soccer Team is probably one of the few national teams that plays at home in another country. What is even more strange, in the territory of who, in theory, is its direct rival in the area. Can you imagine the Argentine National Team playing at home in Brazil? Impossible. Returning home, specifically to the Azteca stadium, both in friendly and knockout matches, is essential to click again with the fans.
In the world of football, it is very common for leaders to cut projects in which they do not trust, resulting in us seeing different men on the bench every two or three years. However, in Mexico this is crazy. Immediate results are required but they cut off as soon as they suffer the first setback. Managers must empower the coaching staff and thus trust in long-term plans, with fixed goals and clear objectives.
Football is a sport that lives, mainly, from the passion it generates game by game in its fans. This goes beyond obtaining brilliant results. It is about forging identities with which all their fans feel represented. Something that has not happened in Mexico for many years. Do you remember when was the last time you were really excited watching a National Team match? Because I don’t.
In Argentina, when someone criticizes Lionel Messi, fans immediately jump to defend him. In Brazil, the same thing happens with Vinicius Jr. In practically all countries in the world, it is normal for figures to be protected. In Mexico it is the other way around. Footballers like ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, Guillermo Ochoa or Hugo Sánchez himself find greater approval outside than within their own country. We cannot dream big if we do not value the great.
Football, like any other sport in the world, is also an entertainment product, and, consequently, we can see it as a business. However, a balance can be struck in which sports do not take second place. Mexico should start there, if it is really interested in reconciling with the fans.
Another conflict that the leaders of the Mexican Soccer Team have to deal with is that it does not always have the full support of the clubs and their leaders. On many occasions, the leaders of Liga MX see only their own interests and do not support the decisions of the Tricolor. If they want to regain the trust of the fans, they must find a way to ‘win over’ the club owners.
Facing the best will inevitably sooner or later help you become part of that select group. The Mexican Soccer Team, for several years now, has opted for matches similar to those in the United States, which, far from adding, end up detracting from the competitive level of the team. Facing teams like Argentina, France, Brazil or England is a good way to improve.
Just as it is necessary for the Mexican Soccer Team to face the best teams in the world to improve their performance, it is also important that more and more soccer players dare to emigrate to the old continent, and for this it is essential to have the support of the clubs.
While it is true that the Mexican Soccer Team belongs, geographically speaking, to CONCACAF, it is an undeniable reality that the level is in CONMEBOL. Therefore, whenever the opportunity to participate presents itself, Mexico must take it seriously, and thus bet on a trophy that, beyond what it generates in terms of money, would contribute too much in terms of football. And at the end of the day the ball is the protagonist of the game, right?
If we watch the group stage match between the Mexican National Soccer Team and the Argentine National Team again, we will remember how close the Mexicans came to doing evil to the Argentines. Because the level, at least in that match, was quite even. However, after that mid-morning, Mexico became Mexico again and Argentina headed towards the world championship. The difference? That while one dreams of the fifth game in a soccer World Cup, the other works to keep the trophy. The fifth game should be one more step, not a goal, much less a dream.
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