The current analyst for the ESPN network, Ricardo Peláez, with experience as a manager of the Mexico national team revealed that the players are the ones who have kidnapped the Aztec team and that prevents internal competition to seek greater performance on the field of play.
Peláez, with an extensive career as a World Cup player in the 1998 World Cup in France and as a manager also in the 2013 Brazil World Cup, he recognized that the players themselves are the ones who determine what should be done on the field of play and often even which players should be called up.
In this regard, Ricardo stated that: “The players kidnap the National Team. What happened during the era of Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, Miguel Layún and all those players? They had to remove several; When there is a sporting competition that doesn’t happen because everyone wants to go to the national team, everyone works hard to play and wants to be a starter. Nowadays, what competition do these players have if you are saying that it is the same team that played with Diego Cocca as the one that played the other day.”
Obviously, the former director of the Mexican national team in the process of Miguel Herrera in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and who was about to make history in that game against Holland, was referring to: “The lack of renewal of the Mexican team makes “That the players settle in, that they do not push themselves on the field, because they know that they will be called for the next game.”
The former América and Necaxa striker in the 80s and 90s also stated that: “I think that if there were more players, the competition would increase and the only beneficiary would be the Mexican team.”
In his presentation, Peláez Linares also opened the way to refer to the issue of Santiago Giménez and Guillermo Ochoa, where he explained that due to the lack of competition or new talents, suddenly a player arrives and says that he does not want to train, because he knows that your site will continue to be respected.
“But suddenly a player tells you: ‘I don’t want to train, I don’t want this’; But it wouldn’t happen if there was more competition, that doesn’t happen because the coach calls everyone. He called Henry Martín, Santi Giménez and he had called Raúl Jiménez and between the three of them they should keep their mouths open and whoever is best plays; I think that in that sense the coach has lacked in goal.”
However, Ricardo Peláez avoided blaming Guillermo Ochoa for these factors and the defeat against the United States, but he did urge that coach Jaime Lozano dare to look for a replacement for the five-time World Cup winner in the goal of the Mexico team.
“Guillermo Ochoa is not guilty of the 2-0 defeat, he is a great player, but give the next guy a chance because if he gets injured, who is going to stop?” he concluded.
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