Mexico got its man, announcing on Monday it has hired Gerardo "Tata" Martino to manage the men’s national team.
The length of the deal is yet to be announced, though the Mexican federation will be hoping the Argentine leads the team to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and beyond.
Martino takes over a team that has been remarkably consistent in recent history. El Tri have qualified for the last seven World Cups and been eliminated at the round of 16 stage of each of them. That has set off a near-obsessive quest to make the ‘fifth game’, a quarterfinal, for the first time on foreign soil.