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Mexico hoping for deep World Cup run after ghastly year

In less than 24 hours the Mexican National Team will step on a Russian pitch for the first time in 2018 to debut against Germany in the FIFA World Cup. It’s been a long, strenuous and stressful journey for manager Juan Carlos Osorio and his team.

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According to Remezcla, there are more than 13,000 people coming from Mexico in Russia for the World Cup. That is the second most representatives of any country only behind the United States, who you have to imagine have a lot of people of Mexican origin making the trip to Russia as well.