[Official] Mexico, 'Korea's World Cup opponent', will confirm three consecutive warm-up matches from May to June

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At the 2026 FIFA North American World Cup, the "host country" Mexican national soccer team, which belongs to the same group as the South Korean national soccer team, has confirmed the schedule for the warm-up match between May and June.

The Mexican Football Association officially announced on the 17th (Korea Standard Time) that the three consecutive warm-up matches between Ghana, Australia and Serbia from May to June will be the last warm-up match before the World Cup.

Mexico will clash with Ghana (Mexico) on May 22 local time, followed by Australia (California, USA) on May 30 and Serbia (Mexico) on June 4. Then, on June 11, they will play South Africa in the first Group A match and the opening match of the World Cup finals.

Mexico was in the same group as South Korea, South Africa, and UEFA (PO) Pass D (Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, and North Macedonia), and all three consecutive opponents in the last warm-up match were made up of teams belonging to the same continental football federation as the World Cup opponents.

As a result, Mexico will play eight warm-up matches against the World Cup this year alone and play in the World Cup finals.

Earlier, Mexico played two away warm-up matches with Panama and Bolivia last month, and a home warm-up match with Iceland is scheduled for the end of this month. However, since the three games are not held during the FIFA A-match period, Mexican league-oriented players will play.

During the A-match period in March, home and neutral (US) warm-up matches have been confirmed with strong European teams such as Portugal and Belgium, respectively. In addition, three consecutive warm-up matches between May and June will be added to complete preparations for the World Cup.

Mexico, which played four consecutive games against South Korea and Japan in September last year, and South American teams from October to November, is thoroughly preparing for the World Cup in its own country by playing warm-up matches with strong European teams in March and one team from each continent in May to June.

On the other hand, South Korea, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, has only recently confirmed its warm-up matches in Ivory Coast (11 p.m. on the 28th, neutral) and Austria (3:45 a.m. on April 1st, away) during the A-match period in March, but nothing has been confirmed regarding the schedule of the warm-up matches before the World Cup. In the FIFA rankings of the opponents in the warm-up match in March, Ivory Coast and Austria ranked 37th and 24th, respectively, lower than Korea (22nd).

In the past, the World Cup played one or two more warm-up matches in Korea before heading to the "final site" and then played one or two more warm-up matches there, but this World Cup is in Group A, so the World Cup schedule is faster than other teams, so they are struggling with the number of warm-up matches and schedules.

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