Your bluffer's guide to the World Cup: Mexico 🇲🇽 | OneFootball

In the latest of this series ahead of the World Cup in Russia, here is all you need to know about Mexico so you blag your way through a conversation down the pub this summer.

The key player is … Hirving ‘Chucky’ Lozano

Undoubtedly the one Mexican that everyone wants to see in Russia. With 19 goals this season, Lozano was far and away PSV’s best player in 2017/18. His speed, balance, risk-taking and superb finishing means he’s the best hope for the Mexicans this summer.

The young player to watch out for is … Jesús Gallardo

Despite being just 23-years-old  Gallardo has already played five seasons for Pumas, amassing almost six thousand minutes this term alone on the left wing. Some of the big clubs in Europe will no doubt be watching this young man very closely in Russia.

I would like a fun fact about the coach. What can you tell me?

Juan Carlos Osorio is seen as a real student of the game, but fans back home are growing tired of his constant tinkering with the team and its style of play. Poor results in Russia, and the 56-year-old won’t last too much longer.

Back in the early 2000s, he worked alongside Kevin Keegan as Manchester City’s fitness coach.

If I were to get a line of the national anthem tattooed onto my back, what should I go for?

“Fatherland, fatherland, your children swear to exhale their breath in your cause, If the bugle in its belligerent tone should call upon them to struggle with bravery.”

Summarise this team for me in one emoji, please

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Who will make their best XI in Russia?

And finally, tell me how the team will perform in Russia?

Placed in Group F alongside Germany, Sweden and South Korea – Mexico should be aiming for second place and eyeing a potential last 16 clash versus Brazil.