The Mexican Under-23 team knows their way around this morning in search of a second Olympic medal in Tokyo 2020
The Mexican National Team U23 you will know your luck in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the first hours of this Wednesday in Mexico, where the draw for the football championship will take place and in which the Tri Olímpico climbed to the top of the podium in London 2012.
The team led by Jaime Lozano, along with 15 other clubs, will need to know their future in the tournament from pot two. The distribution of representatives was given based on their performance in the past five editions in Olympic football and an extra point was given to the teams arriving as continental champions.
Pot 1: Japan (host), Brazil, Argentina and South Korea.
Pot 2: Mexico, Germany, Honduras and Spain.
Pot 3: Egypt, New Zealand, Ivory Coast and South Africa.
Pot 4: Australia, Saudi Arabia, France and Romania.
What would be the best luck for Mexico?
The Mexican National Team U23 it will have to hope not to stand in front of the strongest groups, Brazil, Argentina and Japan, so the most ‘affordable’ rival will be South Korea.
Mexico he should hope to be ahead of the said Asian rival and bet as the second rival to play against New Zealand, Oceania’s representative who is arguably the “weakest”.
Finally, El Tri will have to wait for luck to smile at them and in the same group is Romania, the surprising European rival that managed to make it to the summer fair.
What’s the worst scenario?
The Olympic selection He starts with the left foot when he sees the South American powers as the first rival in the draw: Brazil or Argentina.
The second rival that Mexico I wouldn’t want to include it in the championship, it will be Egypt, which was the champion of the U23 African Cup of Nations and that for the match to be held between July and August will have world star Mohamed Salah who will be the star strengthening.
From Pot 4, the Tri Olímpico should keep an eye out for France, which was a semi-finalist in the 2019 UEFA Under-21 European Championship Italy 2019, which gave them qualification for Tokyo 2020, after coming second best in the group stage. In the semifinals they fell 4-1 against Spain, later champions of the tournament and with whom Pot 2 shares Mexico.