{"id":43906,"date":"2025-10-04T05:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/key-absences-in-mexico-jimenez-and-alvarez-absent-from-friendlies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T05:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:10:50","slug":"key-absences-in-mexico-jimenez-and-alvarez-absent-from-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/key-absences-in-mexico-jimenez-and-alvarez-absent-from-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Key absences in Mexico: Jim\u00e9nez and \u00c1lvarez absent from friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mexican Stars, Absent from Mexico&#8217;s Call-up for Friendlies<\/h2>\n\nThe figures of Mexican soccer, Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez and Edson \u00c1lvarez, will not be part of the national team led by Javier Aguirre for the upcoming friendly matches against Colombia and Ecuador, due to recent injury problems.\n\nJim\u00e9nez suffered a hip injury after scoring Fulham&#8217;s only goal in the 3-1 defeat against Aston Villa in the Premier League. This situation left him out of Friday&#8217;s match against Bournemouth.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p>Mexican defender Huescas is out for the rest of the season, and his participation in the World Cup is in doubt.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Ticket sales for the World Cup begin amid uncertainty.<\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nFor his part, the captain of Mexico, \u00c1lvarez, was only able to return to the field with Fenerbahce in the 2-1 victory over Nice in the Europa League, marking his return after a hamstring injury suffered on September 6.\n\nAnother notable absence is defender Rodrigo Huescas. FC Copenhagen announced that the young Mexican will be out for the rest of the season due to a right knee injury, which puts his participation in next summer&#8217;s World Cup in doubt.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1003%2Fr1555152_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez y Edson \u00c1lvarez\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez y Edson \u00c1lvarez se perder\u00e1n los amistosos de M\u00e9xico en octubre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nDespite these absences, Aguirre&#8217;s team will have outstanding players such as Santiago Gim\u00e9nez, C\u00e9sar Montes, Alexis Vega, Hirving Lozano and Johan V\u00e1squez.\n\nAfter the October matches, Mexico will continue its preparation for the 2026 World Cup with a series of friendlies in November against Uruguay and Paraguay.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mexico&#8217;s Call for October<\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Luis \u00c1ngel Malag\u00f3n (Club Am\u00e9rica), Ra\u00fal Rangel (Chivas), Carlos Acevedo (Santos Laguna)\n\n<strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Mateo Ch\u00e1vez (AZ Alkmaar), Ram\u00f3n Juarez (Club Am\u00e9rica), Israel Reyes (Club Am\u00e9rica), Kevin \u00c1lvarez (Club Am\u00e9rica), Jorge S\u00e1nchez (Cruz Azul), C\u00e9sar Montes (Lokomotiv Moscow), Johan V\u00e1squez (Genoa), Jes\u00fas Gallardo (Toluca)\n\n<strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Orbel\u00edn Pineda (AEK Athens), Alexis Gutierrez (Club Am\u00e9rica), \u00c9rick S\u00e1nchez (Club America), Erik Lira (Cruz Azul), Carlos Rodr\u00edguez (Cruz Azul), Luis Romo (Chivas), Diego Lainez (Tigres), Marcel Ruiz (Toluca)\n\n<strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Santiago Gimenez (AC Milan), Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones (Al-Qadsiah), German Berterame (Monterrey), C\u00e9sar Huerta (Anderlecht), Hirving Lozano (San Diego FC), Alexis Vega (Toluca)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican Stars, Absent from Mexico&#8217;s Call-up for Friendlies The figures of Mexican soccer, Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez and Edson \u00c1lvarez, will not be part of the national team led by Javier Aguirre for the upcoming friendly matches against Colombia and Ecuador, due to recent injury problems. Jim\u00e9nez suffered a hip injury after scoring Fulham&#8217;s only goal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9449,355,1183,5461],"class_list":{"0":"post-43906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-edson-alvarez","8":"tag-injuries","9":"tag-mexico","10":"tag-raul-jimenez"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}