With 110M people, why isn't Mexico a global power?

OLpower wrote:I think that the Mexican league is not enough.

We had a player from the Mexican league, Cesar Delgado who was dominating in that league almost looking like Cristiano Ronaldo at some occasin. He came here but had hard time to adapt.

Technically he was still one of the best of our team and he was shining when gaining playing time. But his problem is that he was injured a lot, he was not adapted to the physical dimension of the french league. He should have come younger to really succeed.

Catracho wrote:

OLpower wrote:I think that the Mexican league is not enough.

We had a player from the Mexican league, Cesar Delgado who was dominating in that league almost looking like Cristiano Ronaldo at some occasin. He came here but had hard time to adapt.

Technically he was still one of the best of our team and he was shining when gaining playing time. But his problem is that he was injured a lot, he was not adapted to the physical dimension of the french league. He should have come younger to really succeed.

can't stop laughing yet.

OLpower wrote:

Catracho wrote:

OLpower wrote:I think that the Mexican league is not enough.

We had a player from the Mexican league, Cesar Delgado who was dominating in that league almost looking like Cristiano Ronaldo at some occasin. He came here but had hard time to adapt.

Technically he was still one of the best of our team and he was shining when gaining playing time. But his problem is that he was injured a lot, he was not adapted to the physical dimension of the french league. He should have come younger to really succeed.

can't stop laughing yet.

Don't laugh, they even did a video comparing the two.

Lord Hispano wrote:Wait, how's Mexico underperforming, though?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Football is the predominant sport there, they have a well-structured league, and there's tons of people. One would think that with a population near 3 times the size of Argentina's and 2 times as big as that of France, Italy and England they would be doing better than they are now.

So, resident Mexicans, why is your NT under-performing?

hrealmadrid wrote:[–]wawin 48 points 11 months ago
I think it's a sum of things. For one, their tournament has too much money.
I know it sounds retarded but hear me out. In all of the America's, the tournament that pays the most money is the Mexican League, by far. Good players preffer to stay at home, make buttloads of cash + be around their families than going to Europe for less money, no fame and little family.
While it does seem like a no brainer decision for many people (money+fame+family), the fact is that good players enter a plateu state when they stay in Mexico. Meanwhile, the handful of players that actually venture into European territory are greated by the dark reminder that they need to be a lot more physical, more disciplined and have a more tactical mentallity if they wish to succeed in the Europe Leagues. Many fall by the wayside when confronted with the fact that they need to better their quality and actually learn new things. There are of course, other players who rise up to the challenge and become way better players than they were in Mexico, for example Rafa Marquez with Barcelona.
Then there is also the way the league is designed, it works in a Playoff structure + short calendar (2 tournaments). You can get mediocre teams on top rather easily with that system. Since you need players to make a difference in short bursts when you play short calendars, you can't really take a chance with young kids, so you get more outside help. The Mexican league right now is filled with very good south american players precisely because it pays very good, many of which you will see in teams like Paraguay, Uruguay.
So now you have a system that at the same time makes good talent want to stay for too long in the league + whenever it needs more new good players it looks to South America for help. This results in young talent not given enough chance to play partly because most of the important spots are filled by mexican players that don't want to venture into europe and south americans who are making big bucks.
There is also widespread nepotism and corruption in the Federation, but that is besides the point since that is true in fifa, uefa, conmebol, etc.
Another factor is the press. I have espn latino and many of the shows are designed for the mexican audience. The amount of pressure they put upon the players, the coach, everybody is nothing short of amazing. If you think the England and Argentinian pressure is tough, it's nothing like the mexican press. They have actually made entire shows in espn dedicated to following their national team, and on many occassion dedicated the entire show to destroying everybody. It also works the other way around, if they win any game, then they are gods amongst men and will surely defeat anyone in their wake. It's border line schizophrenic.
So yeah, it's a lot of things.
TL:DR: many factors. Too much money, league problems, press pressure.

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Magricos wrote: Underperform in what way ? Mexico got Germany and Argentina last 2 WCs

Magricos wrote: Underperform in what way ? Mexico got Germany and Argentina last 2 WCs

iftikhar wrote:Why Bangladesh (160 mil) struggles even in regional competitions!

Why China qualified only once for the WC and India have never!!

Why The Netherlands (6 mil) is a football super power!!!

honduran09 wrote:

Magricos wrote: Underperform in what way ? Mexico got Germany and Argentina last 2 WCs

When did mexico get germany as far as i remember it went like this...

2010: Argentina 3-1
2006: Argentina 2-1
2002: USA 2-0

iftikhar wrote:Why Bangladesh (160 mil) struggles even in regional competitions!

Why China qualified only once for the WC and India have never!!

Why The Netherlands (6 mil) is a football super power!!!