La Semana

Luiz Felipe Scolari arrives at Mexican national team, say Brazilians Pressure for Jaime Lozano in Copa América?

- BY EDOARDO ÁVILA

'Felipao' seems to sound at a key moment when Femexfut would have a warning at Jimmy Lozano's work

Mexican Selection with Scolari? Mexico's role in Concacaf's Nations League losing to the United States in the Final (2-0), left in question whether Jaime Lozano should continue as coach of the Tri, this has reached Brazil, where they assume that FMF would have overtaken Luiz Felipe Scolari.

The Brazilian strategist failed in his last attempt with a national team, that of his country, in the historic win that Germany gave him (7-1 in the World Cup that they hosted as local).

Scolari, pressure for Jimmy Lozano?

Although Jimmy Lozano had the back of the Mexican Football Federation once the failure of the Final lost against Team USA was consummate­d, something was clear: the priority, which was to beat the selected of the bars and the stars was not ful:lled; in addition, that although the young strategist won the previous Gold Cup when he was interim, inside Mexican soccer they become aware that it was also achieved against alternativ­e teams.

The malfunctio­n of the national team does not convince beyond the friendly against Germany. There is no change since Gerardo Martino ended his contract, and then in the ephemeral step of Diego Cocca. The transforma­tion of Mexico with Jimmy does not come, despite the fact that it was the selected ones themselves who asked him as a strategist to have a substantia­l improvemen­t; that is why the name of Luiz Felipe Scolari seems to arrive in a moment of pressure for the former coach of the Tri at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Jaime Lozano has a warning: Copa America, at least semi nals

This day, in Brazil it was dawned with the news in several media that Scolari would have approaches on the part of the Femexfut structure, already advanced; the reality is that everything seems to enter into communion with the pressure that Mexico absorbs for the next Copa América, where, according to TUDN, they asked Jaime Lozano for a minimum of semi:nals. Less would be to study a possible disengagem­ent.

The Tri players and Lozano himself had said, prior to the :nal against the United States, that the priority was Concacaf's Nations League, since in Copa América it was understood that there were teams with greater football, as is precisely Brazil, or the World Champion, Argentina. But the defeat against the intimate enemy of the area, which today stands as 'Giant of Concacaf', has not liked anything in Mexican soccer.

Brazilian press talking about Scolari in Mexico

It was Radio Grenal of Brazil the :rst to report that Scolari will be in charge of the Tricolor. This generated echoes, rememberin­g that the coach, former of Palmerias, was already twice at the head of the Five-time Champion, just being the last coach who made them champions in Korea Japan 2002, and then in a failure called Brazil 2024, with that remembered 7-1 against Germany.

"It was the worst day of my life," Scolari said at the time, which today sounds to return to the Tri, although more like a pressure cooker for Lozano.

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