Recentemente integrado à concentração da seleção mexicana, o renomado goleiro Guillermo Ochoa, de 40 anos, declarou nesta sexta-feira (15) que sua presença na Copa do Mundo de 2026 ainda é incerta e que, mesmo que seja convocado, não terá a posição de titular assegurada para o jogo de abertura contra a África do Sul.
Até o presente momento, sem a confirmação de sua convocação definitiva, o feito de Ochoa de
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The possibility of playing in six World Cups, a feat that could also be achieved by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, remains open.
[Check the World Cup schedule] (This links to the schedule)
“I hope to be on the final roster to play on June 11th,” the goalkeeper said before the Tri’s training session this Friday in Mexico City.
Of his five previous World Cup appearances, which began in Germany 2006, Ochoa was the starting goalkeeper in the three most recent editions: Brazil 2014, Russia 2018, and Qatar 2022.
But “it’s not because I played in the last World Cups that the coach (Javier Aguirre) will decide he has to pick me for that reason,” stated the AEL Limassol (Cyprus) goalkeeper.
Ochoa is on the preliminary 55-player roster, alongside five other goalkeepers, which Aguirre submitted to FIFA one month before the World Cup’s start.
The other five goalkeepers are Raúl Rangel (26, Guadalajara), Carlos Acevedo (30, Santos), Antonio Rodríguez (33, Tijuana), Carlos Moreno (28, Pachuca), and Álex Padilla (22, Athletic Bilbao).
Ochoa stated that he is approaching the possibility of playing in his sixth World Cup – which begins on June 11th and concludes on July 19th across the United States, Canada, and Mexico – “with the same excitement as when I was a child.”
The final call-up “I need to earn throughout this whole…” (The sentence is incomplete in the original text.) “playing time, during these training days or in the friendlies,” said the former Málaga and Granada goalkeeper.
Before Mexico submits its final 26-player squad list to FIFA on June 1st, Ochoa will have the chance to feature in goal for Mexico on May 22 against Ghana in Puebla, on May 30 against Australia in Pasadena, United States, and on June 4 in Toluca against Serbia.
