7 months ago
12
Lizzy BecheranoJun 4, 2025, 12:58 PM ET
The Mexico nationalist squad confirmed connected Wednesday that Hirving "Chucky" Lozano and Henry Martín volition nary longer signifier portion of the June grooming campy owed to hamstring injuries.
The duo volition miss upcoming friendlies against Turkey connected June 7 successful Salt Lake City, Utah, and Switzerland 3 days aboriginal successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They volition besides not beryllium included successful the Concacaf Gold Cup squad expected to beryllium announced connected Wednesday.
In the lawsuit of Lozano, the Mexico federation said that his MLS club, San Diego FC, conducted respective tests and informed the nationalist squad that the subordinate could nary longer question to Mexico City to articulation campy owed to a near hamstring injury.
Lozano past featured successful San Diego's 2-0 triumph implicit Austin FC connected May 31, playing for 66 minutes earlier being substituted disconnected the pitch.
Lozano was set to marque his return to the Mexico squad for the archetypal clip successful 2025, aft failing to diagnostic successful the team's trophy-winning Concacaf Nations League run successful March.
Martín besides picked up a near hamstring injury, and volition present depart the nationalist squad grooming installation successful Mexico City to statesman his rehabilitation process with Club América. The guardant did not play successful América's astir caller crippled against LAFC connected May 31 owed to the ongoing injury.
Later connected Wednesday, Mexico released its 26-man roster for the Gold Cup, with the instrumentality of 39-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa making his instrumentality to the nationalist team.
Alongside Ochoa, different noteworthy faces see West Ham's Edson Alvarez, AC Milan's Santiago Gimenez, Fulham's Raul Jimenez, arsenic good arsenic the eye-catching summation of 16-year-old Club Tijuana midfielder Gilberto Mora. With 2 planetary appearances already successful hand, and besides the existent grounds for Liga MX's youngest goalscorer erstwhile helium was 15, Mora has rapidly risen done the ranks of the Mexican shot world.
Wednesday's announcement besides confirmed that preliminary roster members specified arsenic Emilio Lara, Juan Sanchez Purata, Gilberto Sepulveda, Ramon Juarez, Jeremy Márquez, and Alex Padilla didn't marque the last list.
Mexico won the past variation of the Gold Cup successful 2023 nether erstwhile manager Jaime Lozano with a 1-0 triumph implicit Panama, and present hole to look Costa Rica, Suriname and the Dominican Republic successful this year's radical A.
Full Mexico roster:
Goalkeepers: Luis Ángel Malagón / Club América; Raúl Rangel / Chivas; Guillermo Ochoa / AVS
Defenders: Jorge Sánchez / Cruz Azul; Julián Araujo / Bournemouth; César Montes / Lokomotiv Moscow; Israel Reyes / Club América; Jesús Orozco / Cruz Azul; Johan Vásquez / Genoa Mateo; Chávez / AZ Alkmaar; Jesús Gallardo / Toluca
Midfielders: Edson Álvarez / West Ham; Erik Lira / Cruz Azul; Luis Chávez / Dynamo Moscow; Marcel Ruiz / Toluca; Carlos Rodríguez / Cruz Azul; Gilberto Mora / Club Tijuana; Orbelín Pineda / AEK Athens
Forwards César Huerta / Anderlecht; Efraín Álvarez / Chivas; Alexis Vega / Toluca; Roberto Alvarado / Chivas; Santiago Giménez / AC Milán; Raúl Jiménez / Fulham; Ángel Sepúlveda / Cruz Azul; Julián Quiñones / Al-Qadisiyah
