54 Days Ahead Of The 2022 World Cup: Two Stars Mexico Chicharito And Carlos Vela Make Sure Martino Not Brings Martino To Qatar

JAKARTA - Two Mexican strikers who starred in Major League Soccer (MLS) were again ruled out by El Tri coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Javier "Chicharito" Hernández of Los Angeles Galaxy and Carlos Vela of Los Angeles FC will not be part of a team that shares Group C with Argentina, Poland, and Saudi Arabia.

"In the case of Chicharito (Hernndez), we only went with other strikers," Martino was quoted as saying by Marca, Tuesday.

"We will try to choose the 26 players closest to our game."

As for Vela, the former Real Sociedad striker revealed the reason why he didn't want to be in Qatar in November for personal reasons.

When I am available and playing for Mexico, I am excited to play in the World Cup and defend my country. But there are stages in football and life," Vela said some time ago.

When you close a chapter, you have to let others do their job. We have to support the team we lead and wish the best for those who make the decision to bring in."

To that end, El Tri's goal scorer position will be given by the coach to the following three of the following four players: Raúl Jiménez, Rogelio Funes-Mori, Henry Martin and Santiago Giménez.

"We have two (attacks) that can play and two that can't," continued the Argentine coach.

What I like is that we don't have enough players. The four attackers won't go (to Qatar), but as long as they make it difficult for me to vote, I'm very happy about it.

"There will definitely be talk of who is left behind, but the problem is abundance and not scarcity."

Raúl Jiménez has been a starter in that position throughout Martino's tenure. However, the Wolverhampton striker suffers from a public athletics and has to miss a friendly match against Peru and Colombia.

While Funes-Mori also missed several months with Monterrey in the MX League and Martin was the top scorer in the Mexican League with América.

Meanwhile, Giménez, at the age of 21, is the subject of Mexico's football future. Since being transferred to Dutch club Feyenoord, in the summer he even continued to shine.