The strategist clarified what the future of the player will be with the Mexican National Team amid the expectation about a possible call at the end of the cycle towards Qatar 2022
Gerardo Martino hopes to be able to meet Javier Hernández again (Photos: Reuters-Instagram/@ch14_)
Javier Hernández is one of the most present names in the orbit of Gerardo Martino. Although the strategist of the Mexican National Team has refused to summon him on different occasions, the fans and public opinion have questioned him about the decision. In the press conference prior to the friendly match against Nigeria, the Tata accepted meeting with the LA Galaxy striker, but denied that the talk was aimed at reconsidering him on his campus.
“It is true what Javier said that we have had a communication, surely there is another to have (…) I never said that a meeting implied a future commitment. I I get together with him, I listen to him, I talk to him and ultimately what we do is get together without any kind of problem. If my meeting generates some kind of compromise, we would have 70 players in the selection, ”he declared.
In the same sense, he accepted that the chances of a possible call for the striker from Guadalajara six months before playing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are remote, since part of the process has been lost. However, he left open the possibility of his call, either in the event that one of his current forwards cannot attend, as well as because “we cannot close the doors to players who are at a good time”, he said.
Javier Hernández has declared his intention to be summoned again to defend the Tricolor shirt (Photo/Getty Images)
For his part, the president of the Mexican Soccer Federation ( FMF), Yon de Luisa, reiterated Gerardo Martino’s position on not conveningthe top scorer in the history of the Mexican National Team and left in the hands of the Argentine any possibility of seeing him again with the tricolor jersey.
“I think that the issue of Javier and the Tata is from Javier and the Tata< b>, I think that any comment that comes out of them will be welcome and we leave it to the two of them. The possibilities are generated by them and they will carry them out”, he declared to the media.
Tata’s bet for the attack of the Mexican National Team
Although his role was not what was expected during the Concacaf Octagonal Final dispute, Gerardo Martino trusts the forwards he considered in his most recent call. In addition, he argued that his main bet in the attack is placed on the shoulders of Raúl Jiménez, who is not going through his best soccer moment, but must receive help “so that he can recover its best version”.
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