One of the pinnacles of every young Mexican footballer’s career is to play at the highest level of professional soccer: to play in Europe. There’s a certain romanticism when we talk about Europe and soccer. It’s where you want to be. It’s where you want your favorite players to be, and for Mexico national team fans everywhere, it’s a dream to one day have a majority of national team players playing in some of the biggest and most-famous European teams and cities in the world.
El Tri achieved that during the last World Cup cycle when 12 players out of their 23-man roster were signed overseas.