Canada ready for enemy environment against Mexico: Jesse Marsch

There is nothing better than playing Mexico away. The semi -finals of Concacaf Nations League will be played in Los Angeles next week.

On Thursday, Jesse Marsch will lead the Canadian men’s national team to the Sofi Stadium for one of the most important games that the men’s national team has played for 25 years, and probably the most powerful international environment with which one of the players who wear red and white have ever been confronted.

“The Gold Cup final 2011 was against Mexico in the Rose Bowl, and there were probably 99,500 Mexicans and 500 Americans, and I think Sofi will be a version of it,” Marsch told reporters, including the Canadian every day, to a media call.

“It’s a big factor, but I think our players enjoy these environments. If you look at Copa América, it was another situation in which every game was an away game. In my time here as a national team we really had two home games, and that’s it.

“I would argue that we had many really good matches in the United States in enemy environments. And maybe this will be the biggest thing we have experienced so far because we know how passionate Mexican fans are for their national team, how supportive they are, but they can also be quite critical of the national team. “

It is a semi -finals that feels like a tournament in every respect final. The loss against one of their northern neighbors is not tolerated by Mexican fans and media. With a large part of the pressure on El Tri, Canada has to prepare differently than last summer for the stiff South American competition.

“Our task will be to ensure that we have a good start to the game, that we play as we want to play, that we trust and believe in what we do and that we challenge the Mexican team in every respect,” said Marsch.

“As much as it will be an enemy environment, and we know that Mexico will have many fans, I think it is a really hard -fought but respectful match between two really good opponents and one that will both test us.”

This is not the same Mexican side that Canada beat in November 2021 at IceTeca in the World Cup qualification. This is certainly not the same canmn either.

While both nations have an increasing beef with the Trump administration, Marsch and Mexico Manager Javier Aguirre have a functioning friendship, the President Trump, which the Mexican gaffer repeated with his own personal reflection, brought his own message “Stop the Credbitation Rhetoric”.

“I think with the current international political climate that it is for Mexico as well as for Canada and the situations in which we are speaking, and with Javier Aguirre, and the respect that he and I have for each other, and the respect that he and I have for football and the teams that have each other means that this game is being spirited. But I think of all good ways.

“You are a team that we have a lot of respect, but we are very happy about the challenge of being in the environment to know that we have ourselves against the wall. All of these things will be important to us and I know that our boys will be ready. “

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The reward for beating Mexico on Thursday in Sofi is a date in the final on Sunday against Panama or more likely, Marsch’s home country, the United States. It is impossible not to think about the prospect of playing Mauricio Pochettinos Usmnt with the opportunity to avenge a final defeat in Las Vegas in Las Vegas in May 2023.

“We don’t play in these games with something other than the idea that we want to win. But it is really important for us to simply concentrate on Mexico, ”said Marsch. “We have such a high level of respect for them and the amount will be massive. You will be an opponent who also wants to win with everything you have. Because for both of us we think that we are now in a good way and that this is a great chance.

“Thursday we all have to focus on our energy, our concentration and our concentration on exactly what it will ask for. Then we can speak on Friday what Sunday can look like. “