"Groups like Korea" Mexico announces storm warm-up match... We played 8 games this year and participated in the World Cup

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The Mexican national soccer team, co-host of the 2026 FIFA North American World Cup and belonging to the same group as the South Korean national soccer team, will participate in the World Cup after eight warm-up matches this year alone.

According to Mexican media such as TUDN and Soyreferry on the 11th (Korea Standard Time), the Mexican Football Association is pushing for warm-up matches with Australia, Ghana and Serbia. The specific schedule is undecided, but May-June is likely. Two games will be played in Mexico and one in the U.S.

The last three matches consisted of continental teams such as North American World Cup Group A opponents. Australia is a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) like South Korea, Ghana is a match against South Africa, and Serbia against Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, and North Macedonia for the UEFA playoff pass D winner.

If all three games are confirmed, Mexico will play as many as eight warm-up matches this year alone before the North American World Cup opener against South Africa on June 12.

Mexico has already played two away warm-up matches with Panama and Bolivia last month, and a warm-up match is scheduled at home with Iceland at the end of this month. However, all three games were not during the FIFA A-match period, so players centered on their own leagues came forward.

In March, during the FIFA A match period, Mexico's home and neutral (US) warm-up matches were confirmed with strong European teams such as Portugal and Belgium, respectively. On top of that, three games, including Australia, are likely to be allocated during the FIFA A match scheduled for May to June.

Mexico did not qualify for the World Cup because it confirmed its advance to the finals as the host country of North American World Cup. Instead, he has been preparing for the World Cup through the North-China Gold Cup and warm-up matches last year. In September last year, he went on an away trip to the U.S. and played warm-up matches with Japan (0-0) and South Korea (2-2).

Since then, Mexico, which competed against Colombia, Ecuador in October last year, and Uruguay and Paraguay in November, has been preparing for the World Cup by playing warm-up matches with various continental teams this year. The warm-up match against Korea has not been held for a while as it already played against the Asian team through two consecutive games against Korea and Japan in September last year, but the style is slightly different, but it will also be rehearsing against Korea through a warm-up match with Australia, an AFC member like Korea.

Meanwhile, South Korea, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, will play a neutral warm-up match against Ivory Coast near London, England, at 11 p.m. on March 28 and then an away warm-up match against Austria in Vienna, Austria, at 3:45 a.m. on April 1. South Korea is ranked 22nd, higher than Ivory Coast (37th) and Austria (24th). The opponent for the warm-up match just before the World Cup is undecided, but considering the opening schedule of the World Cup, there is a possibility that only one warm-up match will be held locally without a domestic ceremony.

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