The Mexican under-23 team will meet this morning in search of a second Olympic medal in Tokyo 2020
Mexican national team U23 you will know your luck in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the first hours of this Wednesday in Mexico, in which the draw for the football championship will take place and in which Tri Olimpic climbed to the top of the podium in London 2012.
The team led by Jaime Lozano will have to know, together with 15 other clubs, their future in the second pot tournament. The distribution of the representatives was given according to their performances from the last five editions in Olympic football and an additional point was awarded to the teams that became 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?
Mexican national team U23 he will have to hope not to find himself in front of the leaders of the strongest groups, Brazil, Argentina and Japan, so that the most “accessible” rival will be South Korea.
Mexico he should hope to be in front of the mentioned Asian rival and for the second rival to bet on the game against New Zealand, the representative of Oceania who may be “the weakest”.
Lastly, El Tri will have to wait for luck to smile on them and for Romania to have the same group, the surprising European rival that managed to reach the summer fair.
What is the worst case scenario?
Olympic selection He will start with his left foot if he sees the South American powers as the first draw draw: Brazil or Argentina.
The second rival that Mexico I would not want to face in the championship that it will be Egypt, which was the champion of the African Cup of Nations U23 and that for the competition that will take place between July and August will have its world star Mohamed Salah, who will be the arming star.
From Pot 4, Tri Olímpico should pay attention to France, which was a semifinalist in the European Championship UEFA Under 21 Italy 2019, which gave them the qualification to Tokyo 2020, after being the best second in the group stage. In the semifinals they fell 4-1 against Spain, later champion of the tournament and with whom they share Pot 2 Mexico.