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Tata Martino has what it takes to deal with pressure cooker of Mexico job

As Mexico searched for the successor to Juan Carlos Osorio as men's national team coach, Mexican federation president Yon de Luisa said the search committee had reached out to 24 candidates.

That prompted several news outlets to claim they had the full list, each running their own graphic that looked like the character select screen from Super Smash Brothers. Candidates from all sorts of backgrounds doted the matrices. Very few faces had the pedigree of the man who Monday was announced as the 12th El Tri manager this century.

Gerardo "Tata" Martino has a track record of success.