Gerardo Martino closes the door on Chicharito return to the Mexico national team
The head coach of the Mexican national team, Gerardo Martino, confirmed that the Galaxy striker will not receive a call up for the upcoming events.
No other Mexican striker has more goals than Javier Chicharito Hernández but that is not good enough for the head coach of El Tri, Gerardo Martino. The former Atlanta United boss said that he has not called the LA Galaxy striker to the national team since he took over the job three years ago and that will not change with the World Cup right around the corner.
Chicharito has scored five goals in the first six games of the 2022 MLS regular season with the LA Galaxy and there he has been vocal about wanting to return to the national team. Hernández is also Mexico’s all-time leading scorer and the team managed by Martino is having a hard time finding the back of the net, so Chicharito seems like the only answer.
Chicharito will not play in the World Cup
“He’s one of the most important players Mexico has developed, playing for teams like Real Madrid and Manchester United. My respect for him as a player,” said Martino to the Sentinel. “But it’s up to the coach and he is one of the players who we could call up. It’s clear that I say this and the last two years I haven’t called him up whether in good or bad moments he hasn’t been with the national team since September 2019 but today, the conditions continue being the same, he’s one of the players who we could call up … without a doubt.”
“Javier is not here because the coach who’s here hasn’t selected him in the last two years,” Martino told reporters. “Having said that, I don’t have anything to share with the press. Every inquiry that happens around the national team gets resolved internally.”