Overview
- Márquez will lead Mexico for the first time on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore in a friendly against Colombia that opens his tenure as head coach.
- The coach said he will adapt his plan to the players available and declined to impose a Barcelona-style system because, in his words, he does not have the “material” to do so.
- Player availability is constrained: an initial 30-man call-up was trimmed by injuries to Alan Cervantes and César Montes and Liga MX rules limiting club releases, leaving 24 players available for the Colombia match.
- There has been staff turnover since the World Cup era as Pol Lorente and Toni Amor left to join Javier Aguirre at Valencia while Andrés Guardado was confirmed as an assistant on Márquez’s staff.
- Prime Video will broadcast the debut under its new multi-year Mexico rights deal with a commentary team led by Enrique Noriega, Jaime Lozano and Alexandra Stergios.