LOS ANGELES – Major League Soccer doesn’t improvise, but anticipates. And it is relentless. There is no negative point to discourage you. Ultimately, you get the player you want or think you need.
It took him more than three years to convince Carlos Vela, Javier Hernández and Giovani dos Santos. The first swept in 2019. The second was disappointing in 2020. The third was an absolute headache, to the extent that it is illegal to return to the MLS
Big bets don’t intimidate the American league. He showed it when he signed David Beckham for the Galaxy, and placed their tournament in the corner of world football. Stellar names such as Kaka Sebastian Giovinco Andrea Pirlo Robbie Keane, among other things.
But the MLS has an obsession with the Mexican market. A migrant population of more than 30 million Mexicans justifies this obsession. He even played a reckless card: Chivas USA, which was a hit in the flood of advertisers and a disaster in court.
Sometimes these investments in Mexican soccer players worked more in the media than in soccer. There may be two names stored: Cuauhtémoc White Y Carlos candle, set aside a special one, such as Jorge Campos, who understood the circus phenomenon for which he was invited and paid very well.
But after a disastrous 2020 before The sailing Y Chicharito, the MLS He’s already starting to look for new options that will pay him more fruit than the failed efforts of Alan Pulido and Rodolfo Pizarro, who had a red balance and drew a painful purple in 2020.
The MLS He already has two goals, although he knows that these Mexican players have still made miles in European football, but as in the cases of The sailing Y HernándezHe will arm himself with patience, persistence, persistence, and dollars, which is usually the last ram to overcome all resistance, without ignoring the blessings that life in the United States offers.
Jesús Manuel ‘Tecatito’ Corona (28 years old) and Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano (25 years old) opened the files in the MLS
Two forwards with a football style that delights the stands and takes them into the MLS the perfect setting for their skills, but they are also pampered by the Mexican fans. Grandstand players, caracoleros, effective, who keep intact that joy of playing their football and who would certainly, without pressure, take over the league.
FIRST ON THE LIST …
Jesus Manuel ‘Tecatito’ Corona live a sweet moment with Porto. Since the end of 2019, it has been and continues to be praised in Portugal. He has had some memorable days in the Champions League, in addition to the slip against Chelsea in the Ida Game.
Named the best player and the best foreigner in the Portugal League Corona wait for the summer of 2021, when the move to one of the five major leagues in Europe is finally completed, after the pandemic ended the operation in the winter of 2020, when the Chelsea he was most insistent in his offers.
In addition, The Tecatito has become an essential player in the claims of Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, who decided to recover him, despite a stormy passage, because the player failed to move to a concentration of the Tri for an alleged ankle injury.
That is, like Chucky Corona has the perfect profile of what the MLS: attractive and attractive football, appearance, goal, national team and certainly another World Cup in tow after his almost imminent performance in the Qatar World Cup 2022And both, if the FMF, could be reinforcements in the Tokyo Olympics
THE SELECTED LOZANO
And so the case Chucky Lozano has the same powerful appeal, in addition to having already revealed on one occasion that in the future he would not like to leave his last pearls when he retired from the MLS
After handcuffing in the Dutch competition, arrived in Napoli from Italy in the most expensive transaction in the club’s history, and also did it with the blessing of the eternal patron saint of Naples Diego Armando Maradona
However, with the impact of achieving a football with much greater physical and tactical demand than the Dutch league, Chucky he had to reinvent himself, especially after the technician who played for him, Carlo Ancelotti, saw his head roll.
The arrival of Genaro Gatusso buried, first, and resurrected, later, the career of Hirving LozanoHe ditched him on the couch and even kicked him out of training due to the apathy he displayed. “Anyone who is tired, does not feel like it, does not have a clear mind can stay in the dressing room. Nothing happens if you lose a day, the players know that whoever goes to the field, if I whistle, has to give them the thousand, ”he said.
“I will not allow anyone to ruin a workout,” he stressed Gatusso with a new warning that Hirving Lozano perfectly understood. From the next training session, his attitude changed radically.
It took him time to regain the confidence of his coach, but he succeeded, until he became a useful player again, and besides, he understood that he was no longer the untouchable footballer, as he even started to feel pressure from them. fans.
This passage makes it even more attractive to the MLSThe league understands that a player who has learned to be fully committed to his trade, especially in such demanding and dramatic circumstances, will end up with a high degree of responsibility in the US courts.
GUARDADO AND JIMÉNEZ …
Other candidates? There are. And the American league is especially interested in those who have been tried in Europe.
The MLS He insisted several times on Andrés Guardado, who recently experienced difficult moments with Betis de SevilleHis body no longer withstands the hustle and bustle of European football and cries out with the national team.
the same Saved revealed in the Amazon Prime documentary that he’s already set foot in the MLS before you sign with him Betis, but wanted to continue in the high league for the Russia 2018 World Cup and now he plans to play a fifth world cup, in Qatar 2022, if your body allows it.
In the same documentary Six Dreams, the Mexican player, who turns 35 in September, explains: “I already wanted to go to the United States (after PSV Eindhoven), they offered me a very good contract (…), but like that. is the World Cup, that would be my last World Cup (Russia 2018), I said, ‘if I go to the United States now my level will drop a lot’, and this came up (Betis from Seville
The MLS you see that unlikely Andrew saved He arrives in full fitness in the league in 2023, at the age of 36, with the history of injuries he travels apart from the fact that by mastering his demands and physical rhythm in games, he was still able to contribute minutes.
In the same Amazon series, the Mexican flyer listens to how the kinesiologist explains in November 2017 that his knee pain is a reflection of degenerative osteoarthritis, typical of constant exercise and age.
“It’s a little bit of osteoarthritis in the kneecaps, in the kneecaps,” the specialist observes.
“Yes? And how do you get rid of that?” He asks Saved
“That’s from …”, the kinesiologist hesitates.
“Is he a veteran? LOL. What a mess …! You just killed me!”, The Mexican player responds.
Raúl Jiménez can be added to that list, although the Greater Wolf of the Wolverhampton pack, is undergoing complications from the skull fracture he sustained in a collision with David Luiz.
The same team keeps track of the player’s evolution with many reservations, does not want to rush him and even has the Mexican team that he does not quote him for the May, June and July pledges.
Jimenez headlined the list of Mexicans in the future MLS, but the league has preferred the attacker of the WolverhamptonBut wait for him to recover and maybe get closer to him in early 2023.