The Mexican national team received harsh news regarding the formation of the squad that will face the Copa América next June in the United States. when Guillermo Ochoa, starting goalkeeper of the Mexican team sumo this Friday the third consecutive game and fifth of the season, absent from Salernitana’s starting lineup, in the 2-2 draw vs. Sassuolo, within the activity of matchday 31 of Italian Serie A.
It is true that there are still two months left for the Copa América, but the fact that Guillermo Ochoa is increasingly losing prominence with his team represents a difficult moment for the coach of the Mexican national team, Jaime Lozano, when it comes to choosing the players who will attend the continental competition, but especially in the assembly of the starting team.
Guillermo Ochoa added his third consecutive game this Friday separated from Salernitana’s ownership in the 2-2 draw with Sassuolo, as happened in the two previous games of the Italian team vs. Lecce and Bologna, suggesting that he is becoming less and less necessary for current coach Stefano Colantuono, who became the fourth coach of this squad after taking over from Fabio Liverani at the helm.
The starting goalkeeper of the Mexico team also did not see action against Cagliari and against Juventus, with which he added his fifth match in the 31 dates that have been played in the calcium as a substitute with Salernitana in a campaign very different from 2023.
In turn, Leverani came to the technical direction of Salernitana, replacing the former Italy national team Filippo Inzaghi, who could not make the team walk where the Mexican Guillermo Ochoa plays and who started the championship under the command of the Portuguese Paulo Sousa and who was the coach who had the most confidence in the goalkeeper of the Mexican team.
However, things have been getting complicated for Memo Ochoa, especially after the team’s alarming moment in occupying the last place in the Italian championship with just 14 points, the product of two victories, eight draws and twenty-one defeats.
All these factors have affected the consistency of the Mexican national team goalkeeper and according to the outlook, it seems difficult for him to can be taken into account in the seven remaining games in the Serie A tournament.
Obviously, This will prevent Guillermo Ochoa from reaching the Copa América at a good paceeven though a European team is active, which will open the big question in the weeks prior to the continental competition, which will begin on June 20 in several cities in the United States, about whether the current starting goalkeeper will have the arrests to continue as owner of the goal of the Mexican team or give way to the presence of Luis Malagón, goalkeeper of América.
For now, the Mexican team is located in Group B of the Copa América with Venezuela, Ecuador and Jamaica, rivals that are supposedly not as complicated as Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, but that will still be a challenge for the moment of instability that the Mexican squad is experiencing under the command of Jaime Lozano.
To date, Memo Ochoa has had 21 seasons since his debut in 2003. with América and which allowed him to play in Europe with Ajaccio in France, Málaga and Granada in Spain, Standard in Belgium and Salernitana in Italy.
On a personal level, Guillermo Ochoa apparently does not have much problem defining his future for next season, as it is unofficially assured that he will be one of the reinforcements of San Diego FC, a new franchise that will debut in Major League Soccer (MLS). from 2005.
But in the short term, his inactivity will undoubtedly be an issue to take into account in the next ten weeks before the debut in the Copa América.
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