The mentality that Cuauhtémoc Blanco tried to teach in the Mexican National Team for a World Cup

With each World Cup cycle, the question arises among the Mexican fans: “The Tri Will it reach the fifth game? Since part of the illusion that Mexican soccer fans have is to see the Mexican team in the next stage of a World Cup.

Faced with such a scenario, Cuauhtemoc Blancoformer Mexican soccer player, spoke about the mentality that the Mexican player has and how he tried to make a generational change when he was part of the team tricolor y He sought to get his teammates out of the “comfort” zone that has made it impossible for the Aztec team to have a great performance.

on one occasion David Faitelson interviewed the former American striker and confessed the time when he tried to motivate his teammates and implement a different way of thinking within the Mexican concentration. For the program Spicy Soccer of ESPN, Cuauhtémoc Blanco assured that he sought to convince his teammates that they were in a position to fight for the title of world champion.

Because Mexico has never managed to achieve that merit, many ignored it; since his first World Cup France 1998 until the last one in South Africa 2010, the Theme assured that I always went with the mentality of competing for a featas difficult as it seemed, since he considered that this was the only objective to travel to a World Cup.

“Why are you going to a World Cup, David? I have said it many times; When I interviewed and was going to compete in a World Cup they asked me (and I said) I’m going to look for a championship, otherwise what are you going for?

Although in those years, the press, fans and even his own teammates called him “crazy”, the Theme he always competed with that ideal and tried to spread it within the National Team, but without success.

“Yeah, I’m crazy or whatever you want, but I had that mentality.”

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