Mexican National Team starts training for Copa America Centenario

By Francisco Romero

Members of the Mexican National Team started arriving to training camp in Mexico City, getting ready for the upcoming Copa America Centenario tournament.

Juan Carlos Osorio’s team will train in Mexico until May 26^th, then the team will head to the United States to play a couple of friendlies before starting Copa America. El Tri will play against Paraguay in Atlanta and will face Chile in San Diego on May 28^th and June 1^st respectively.

Alfredo Talavera, Jesús Corona, Guillermo Ochoa, Néstor Araujo, Yasser Corona, Jorge Torres Nilo, Rafael Márquez, Héctor Moreno, Jesús Molina, Jesús Dueñas, Andrés Guardado, Carlos Peña an Jürguen Damm arrived Sunday.

The rest of the players will join the National Team as they finish duties with their respective teams.

Copa America Centenario play will start June 3^rd; the City of Phoenix will get to watch the action close and personal, as it will host three games.

“This is going to get crazy,” said Armando Rojas, a lifelong Mexican National Team fan who lives in Chandler. “I never thought that the tournament would leave Latin America and to have it in our own back yards makes it that much special,” added Rojas.

The games will be played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale; on June 5^th Mexico will face Ecuador and on June 8^th it will take on Peru.

The following is the list of the players who will make up the Mexican National Team for the Copa America Centenario.