Mexican Team Brings In Foreign Workers
LAVOLPE IS PUSHING PANIC BUTTON EARLY
It was mentioned earlier that the U.S. has finally detached itself from the quick-fix solution regarding bringing naturalized citizen on the team. A kind of high-profile ringer that usually points to a lack of depth and confidence.
If the U.S. has grown past that sort of managerial fumbling, then the Mexicans have devolved to that level.
The Mexican manager, Ricardo Lavolpe, himself an Argentine, has caused a simmering uproar south of the border by tabbing two foreign nationals from Brazil and Argentina.
According to an Orange County Register article, this have driven a stake into the Mexican footballing psyche along with a bit of hypocrisy in regards to the immigration issue that is enraging in this country.
The addition of the Brazilian Antonio Naelson and the Argentine Guillermo Franco doesn't illustrate a lack of quality in Mexico, although, the article points out that 80 percent of the goals this year in the Mexican League were scored by foreigners, it does show an immensely scared manager.
The pressure is on for Lavolpe as every it is for every Mexican manager, but few resort to bringing foreigners to the national team in a country that values 100 percent Mexican heritage. Not only is El Tri expected to reflect the country's nationalism, it's most famous team, Chivas, is reknown for only fielding a squad of Mexicans. If U.S. labor laws forbid such an exclusionary policy, the MLS version of Chivas in Los Angeles would have been the same.
If you harken back to the dismal Steve Sampson era during World Cup '98, the U.S. talked the talk but felt the need to scour the world for any defender with any kind of relation to the U.S. He found David Regis, a Frenchmen married to an American and the rest was history. Three losses and a lone Brian McBride goal.
It's not that it was Regis fault. He played well enough, but the panicky move to add someone outside of U.S. Soccer's sphere was a precursor to Sampson's true beliefs--that the team wasn't good enough.
Naelson and Franco may be an insight into Lavolpe's true estimation of the Mexican national team and if the O.C. Register's article is correct, Lavolpe would have added another foreigner if the public's outrage wasn't so high.
Even with the suspect managerial moves, the Mexicans stand a good chance of advance to the round of 16. With a surprising Iran, newbie in Angola and a somewhat temperamental Portuguese side, five or six points should be good enough to advance. After that
It was mentioned earlier that the U.S. has finally detached itself from the quick-fix solution regarding bringing naturalized citizen on the team. A kind of high-profile ringer that usually points to a lack of depth and confidence.
If the U.S. has grown past that sort of managerial fumbling, then the Mexicans have devolved to that level.
The Mexican manager, Ricardo Lavolpe, himself an Argentine, has caused a simmering uproar south of the border by tabbing two foreign nationals from Brazil and Argentina.
According to an Orange County Register article, this have driven a stake into the Mexican footballing psyche along with a bit of hypocrisy in regards to the immigration issue that is enraging in this country.
The addition of the Brazilian Antonio Naelson and the Argentine Guillermo Franco doesn't illustrate a lack of quality in Mexico, although, the article points out that 80 percent of the goals this year in the Mexican League were scored by foreigners, it does show an immensely scared manager.
The pressure is on for Lavolpe as every it is for every Mexican manager, but few resort to bringing foreigners to the national team in a country that values 100 percent Mexican heritage. Not only is El Tri expected to reflect the country's nationalism, it's most famous team, Chivas, is reknown for only fielding a squad of Mexicans. If U.S. labor laws forbid such an exclusionary policy, the MLS version of Chivas in Los Angeles would have been the same.
If you harken back to the dismal Steve Sampson era during World Cup '98, the U.S. talked the talk but felt the need to scour the world for any defender with any kind of relation to the U.S. He found David Regis, a Frenchmen married to an American and the rest was history. Three losses and a lone Brian McBride goal.
It's not that it was Regis fault. He played well enough, but the panicky move to add someone outside of U.S. Soccer's sphere was a precursor to Sampson's true beliefs--that the team wasn't good enough.
Naelson and Franco may be an insight into Lavolpe's true estimation of the Mexican national team and if the O.C. Register's article is correct, Lavolpe would have added another foreigner if the public's outrage wasn't so high.
Even with the suspect managerial moves, the Mexicans stand a good chance of advance to the round of 16. With a surprising Iran, newbie in Angola and a somewhat temperamental Portuguese side, five or six points should be good enough to advance. After that
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