La Semana

The 'Giant' of CONCACAF is: UNITED STATES!

- By Javier Cardoso

The Mexican soccer team is still below the country of the 'bars and the stars' in the FIFA classi cation.

The Mexican soccer team currently led by Jaime 'Jimmy' Lozano is still behind in the ranking published by FIFA; the national team is located in the 15th position in the ranking, while the United States is in thirteenth place, since they lost a step to Morocco that rose to 12th place. The North American team is the best positioned in the CONCACAF area, followed by Mexico and then Canada, which is in 50th place; Costa Rica is 54th.

Mexico will play the CONCACAF Nations League next month, in the semidnals it will face Panama on March 21 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium of the NFL; the winner of that match will play the Dnal against the winner of the match between the United States and Jamaica; in addition, Jaime Lozano's team will face the Copa América this year, will be in Group B and will play against

Jamaica on June 22, on June 26 will clash with Venezuela and on 30 it will face Ecuador.

By the way, the Mexican coach is on tour in Europe, where he has visited different players whom he could call for the next FIFA date in March and for the CONMEBOL tournament.

FIFA, has the champion Argentina as the best team in the world, the albicelest­e is followed by the Europeans France, England and Belgium; Brazil, which is experienci­ng di'cult times in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualiders, is in Dfth place. The Netherland­s is in sixth place, Portugal in seventh, Spain in eighth place, Italy is in ninth place and Croatia is the 10th nation. Qatar, which won the title in Asia, rose to 37th place.

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