LOS ANGELES – Major League Soccer does not improvise, it anticipates. And he’s tireless. There is no negative that will discourage you. In the end, 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 away in 2019. The second disappointed in 2020. The third was an absolute headache, insofar as it is forbidden to return to MLS.
Big bets do not intimidate the American league. He showed it when he signed David Beckham for Galaxy and placed their tournament in the corner of the eye of world football. Stellar names like Shit, Sebastian Giovinco, Andrea Pirlo, Robbie Keane, among others.
Except MLS has an obsession with the Mexican market. A migrant population of over 30 million Mexicans justifies this obsession. He even played a reckless card: Chivas SUA, which was a success in the flow of advertisers and a disaster on the ground.
Sometimes these investments in Mexican footballers have worked more in the media than in football. Maybe two names are saved: Cuauhtémoc White Yes Carlos candle, setting aside a special specimen as Jorge Campos, who understood the phenomenon of the circus to which he was invited and very well paid.
But after a ruinous 2020 for Navigation Yes Chicharito, MLS They are already starting 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, pulling a painful purple, in 2020.
MLS He already has two goals, although he knows that these Mexican players still have miles in European football, but, as in the cases of Navigation Yes HernandezHe will arm himself with patience, persistence, insistence, and dollars, which is usually the last ram to overcome any resistance, without neglecting the blessings of life in the United States.
Jesús Manuel “Tecatito” Corona (28 years old) and Hirving “Chucky” Lozano (25 years old) are the files opened in MLS.
Two strikers with a football style that delights the rostrum and that he would find in MLS the perfect setting for their skills, but they are also pampered by Mexican fans. Tribune players, snails, efficient, who keep intact the joy of playing football and who certainly, without pressure, would take over the league.
FIRST ON THE LIST …
Jesus Manuel Corona “Tecatito” live a sweet moment with Porto. Since the end of 2019, it has been and is appreciated in Portugal. He had memorable days in the Champions League, beyond slipping against Chelsea in the Ida Game.
Proclaimed the best player and best foreigner in Portuguese League, coronal awaits the summer of 2021, when the move to one of the top five leagues in Europe is finally completed, after the pandemic prevented the operation in the winter of 2020, when Chelsea he was the most insistent in his offers.
More, Tecatito he became a key player in the claims Gerardo “Tata” Martino, who decided to restore him, despite a stormy passage, because the player did not travel to a concentration of Three for an alleged ankle injury.
I mean the same Chucky, coronal has the perfect profile of what MLS: attractive and attractive football, charisma, goal, national team and certainly another World Cup in the trailer after its almost imminent appearance Qatar World Cup 2022. And both, as well FMF, could be reinforcements in Tokyo Olympics.
MEASURED LOZANO
And so it is Chucky lozano has the same strong appeal, in addition to the fact that he has already revealed on one occasion that in the future he would not like to leave his last pearls when he retired MLS.
After captivation in Dutch League, arrived in Naples from Italy in the most expensive transaction in the history of the club and also did so with the blessing of the eternal owner of Naples, Diego Armando Maradona.
However, with the impact of achieving a football with a much higher physical and tactical demand than the Dutch league, Chucky he had to reinvent himself, especially after the technician who played his skin, Carlo Ancelotti, he saw his head rolling.
His arrival Genaro Gatusso he buried first and later revived his career Hirving Lozano. He locked him in the bench, even kicked him out of training because of the apathy he showed. “Anyone who is tired, does not feel like it, does not have a clear mind, can stay in the locker room. Nothing happens if you lose a day, the players know that anyone who goes on the field, when they whistle, has to give it to me “, he said.
“I don’t allow anyone to destroy a workout,” he said Gatusso with a new warning that Hirving Lozano perfectly understood. Since the next practice, his attitude has changed radically.
It took him time to regain his coach’s trust, but he managed to become a useful player again, understanding, moreover, that he stopped being the untouchable footballer, because he really started to feel the pressure from their fans.
This passage makes it even more appealing MLS. The league understands that a player who has learned to fully engage in his craft, especially in such demanding and dramatic circumstances, will end up with a high level of responsibility on American soil.
GUARDADO AND JIMÉNEZ …
Other candidates? Are. And the American league is especially interested in those tried and tested in Europe.
MLS He insisted several times for Andrés Guardado, who recently experienced difficult moments with Betis Sevilla. His body can no longer withstand the hustle and bustle of European football and appeals to the national team.
same Saved revealed in the Amazon Prime documentary that he already had a foot in MLS before signing with him Betis, but wanted to continue in the high competition to reach World Cup Russia 2018 and now 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 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 this year is the World Cup, which would be my last World Cup (Russia 2018), I said, “if I go to the United States now, my level will go down a lot,” and this came (Betis from Sevilla) ”.
MLS you probably see that Andrew Salvat He arrives in the league in full condition in 2023, at the age of 36, with the history of injuries he draws, beyond the fact that, managing his demands and physical rhythm in games, he could still contribute with minutes.
In the same Amazon series, the Mexican butterfly listens to how the kinesiologist, in November 2017, explains that knee pain is a reflection of degenerative osteoarthritis, typical of constant effort and age.
“There is a bit of osteoarthritis in the patella, inside the roundabouts,” the specialist diagnoses.
“Yes? And how do you get rid of it?” He asks Saved.
“That’s already from …”, the kinesiologist hesitates.
“Is he a veteran? LOL. What shit done …! You just killed me! “, The Mexican player reacts.
Raúl Jiménez can be added to this list, though The Great Wolf from the Wolverhampton package, he goes through complications after the skull fracture he suffered in a collision with David Luiz.
The same team maintains the evolution of the player with many reservations, does not want to rush him and even asked The Mexican team that he did not quote him for the May, June and July engagements.
Jimenez led the list of Mexicans in the future MLS, but the league preferred not to bother the attacker WolverhamptonBut wait for him to recover and you can get closer to him by the beginning of 2023.