LOS ANGELES – Major League Soccer is not improvised, it anticipates. And it is relentless. There is no denying that it discourages you. In the end, he gets the player he wants or thinks he needs.
It took him more than three years to convince Carlos Vela, Javier Hernández and Giovani dos Santos. The first devastated in 2019. The second disappointed in 2020. The third was an absolute migraine, to the degree that it is vetoed to return to the MLS.
Big bets don’t intimidate the American league. He proved it when he signed David Beckham for the Galaxy, and put his tournament in line with the eye of world football. Then came star names like Shit, Sebastià Giovinco, Andrea Pirlo, Robbie Keane, Others.
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 success in the flow of advertisers and a disaster on the track.
At times, these investments in Mexican footballers have worked in the media rather than in football. That perhaps two names are saved: Cuauhtémoc Blanco i Carlos Vela, Placing aside a special specimen such as Jorge Campos, Who understood the circus phenomenon to which he was invited and very well paid.
But after a ruinous 2020 for Vela i Chicharito, the MLS it is already beginning to look for new options that will bear more fruit than the failed efforts of Alan Pulido and Rodolfo Pizarro, who were left with a red balance, throwing a painful purple, in 2020.
the MLS he already has two goals, although he knows that these Mexican players still have mileage in European football, but as in the cases of Vela i HernandezIt will be armed with patience, persistence, insistence, and dollars that is usually the final ram that overcomes all resistance, without shying away from the blessings that life offers in the United States.
Jesús Manuel ‘Tecatito’ Corona (28 years old) and Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano (25 years old) are the files opened in the MLS.
Two strikers with a style of football that delights in the stands and would find in the MLS the perfect setting for their skills, but which, in addition, are pampered by the Mexican fans. Tribune footballers, snails, cash, who keep this joy intact to make their football and surely, without pressure, would become the masters of the league.
FIRST ON THE LIST …
Jesús Manuel ‘Tecatito’ Corona live a sweet moment with Porto. Since the close of 2019, it has been and is acclaimed in Portugal. He has had memorable days in the Champions League, beyond the slip against Chelsea in the First leg.
Proclaimed as the best player and the best foreigner of the Portugal League, Crown is waiting for the summer of 2021, when the transition to one of the five most important leagues in Europe finally materializes, after the pandemic prevented the operation in the winter of 2020, when the Chelsea he was the most insistent in his offers.
Besides, the Tecatito has become an indispensable player in the pretensions of Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, Who decided to rejoin, despite a stormy passage, due to the fact that the player did not travel to a concentration of the Three for an alleged ankle injury.
That is, just like the Chucky, Crown has the perfect profile MLS: Attractive and attractive football, charisma, goal, national team and surely a World Cup more after his almost imminent appearance in the World Cup Qatar 2022. And both, according to the FMF, Could be reinforcements in the Tokyo Olympics.
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And then the case of Chucky Lozano has the same powerful appeal, in addition to which he occasionally revealed on one occasion that in the future he would not mind leaving his last pearls to retire in the MLS.
Then captivate the League of the Netherlands, Arrived in Naples from Italy in the most costly transaction in club history, and in addition he did so with the blessing of the eternal patron saint of Naples, Diego Armando Maradona.
However, with the impact of reaching a football of much more physical and tactical demand than the Dutch league, the Chucky he had to reinvent himself, especially after the coach who played hide and seek for him, Carlo Ancelotti, He saw his head roll.
The arrival of Genaro Gatusso bury, first, and then resurrected the career of Hirving Lozano. Confining him to the bench even made him out of training in the face of the apathy he showed. “Who’s tired, doesn’t feel like it, doesn’t have a clear head, can stay in the locker room. Nothing happens if you lose a day, the players know that whoever goes to the field, when I whistle, they have to give a thousand,” he said. to say.
“I don’t allow anyone to ruin a workout,” he stressed Gatusso with a new warning that Hirving Lozano he understood perfectly. From the following practice, his attitude changed radically.
It took him a while to regain the confidence of his coach, but he managed to do so, until he became a useful player again, realizing, moreover, that he had ceased to be the footballer who was untouchable, as he even went start to feel the pressure from the fans themselves.
This passage makes it even more appealing to the MLS. The league understands that a player who has learned to absolutely commit to his craft, especially in such demanding and dramatic circumstances, will arrive with a high level of responsibility on American courts.
GUARDAT I JIMÉNEZ …
Other candidates? There are. And the American league is especially interested in those tried and tested in Europe.
the MLS insist several times for Andrés Guardado, who has recently experienced difficult times with Betis Seville. His body no longer resists the hustle and bustle of European football and calls with the national team.
the same Saved revealed in the Amazon Prime documentary that he already had a foot in the MLS before signing with the Betis, But wanted to continue in the high competition to reach the ‘ World Cup Russia 2018 and now intends to play a fifth world cup, in Qatar 2022, If your body allows it.
In the same documentary Six Dreams, the Mexican player, who will turn 35 in September, explains: “I already wanted to go to the United States (after PSV Eindhoven), they offered me a very good contract (…) , but as this year is the World Cup, it would be my last World Cup (Russia 2018), I said, ‘if I go to the US now, my level will go down a lot’, and that came up (Betis of Seville) ”.
the MLS you see it unlikely that Andrés Guardado reach 2023 in full league conditions, at 36, with a history of injuries dragging on, beyond managing his demands and physical pace in matches, he could still contribute minutes.
In this same Amazon series, the Mexican steering wheel listens as the kinesiologist, in November 2017, tells him that his knee pain is a reflection of a degenerative osteoarthritis, typical of constant exertion and age.
“It’s a bit of osteoarthritis already in the kneecaps, inside the kneecaps,” the specialist diagnoses.
“Yeah? And how does that come out?” He asks Saved.
“That’s already …” the kinesiologist hesitates.
“Is he a veteran? Ha, ha, ha, ha. What the fuck …! You just killed me!”, The Mexican player reacts.
To this list can add Raúl Jiménez, although the Major wolf of the Wolverhampton canine, goes through complications after the skull fracture he suffered in a collision with David Luiz.
The same team maintains with many reservations the evolution of the player, does not want to rush, and has even asked the Mexican selection not to mention it for the May, June, and July commitments.
Jimenez led the list of Mexicans in the future of the MLS, But the league has preferred not to disturb the striker of the Wolverhampton, But wait for it to recover and maybe get closer to it by early 2023.