The former Portugal star has expressed his desire to see Ochoa in a sixth World Cup

For Pedro Miguel Carreiro “Pauleta”, Guillermo Ochoa has the necessary elements to be able to play his sixth World Cup and inscribe his name in gold letters in the history of football. In addition, he highlighted the quality of the Mexican footballer and the good contribution he can have in a club of Europe.

During a press conference, the legendary footballer of the Portuguese national team and former striker Paris Saint Germainrecognized the career of Guillermo Ochoa both at club level and with Tricolorhighlighting the five World Cups he has been called up to and acknowledging that if he maintains a good pace he could play his sixth World Cup tournament in 2026, which will take place in Mexico, United States and Canada.

“He made a great step in French football, he is a goalkeeper who is not used to spending many years at the same club. He is a goalkeeper who is always motivated, eager to play and participate. When you see Ronaldo, Messi, who are old and who have the chance to go to the World Cup, why not think that Ochoa could also be“, underlined the Lusitano.

In the same way, he recognized the performance of the player of the team of the America when you saw the shirt Tricolor and take on the biggest party in football. “Ochoa breaks all records as a goalkeeper, always in the world cups it becomes great. For the good of football, in Mexico, having a goalkeeper who, every time he takes part in a competition like this, shows a great level, will be good for us, for football.”

One of the questions addressed by the second top scorer in the history of the Selection of Portugal (47 goals), was the fact that the player Aztec has the necessary elements to be able to emigrate to different leagues of the old continent, highlighting that in the League 1 (French League) could have a better adaptation, but sometimes the economic issue ends up being a setback for his signature.

“There is no need to talk a lot about the Mexican player, just look at the last World Cup and the competitions in which he participated. They are players with great qualities. It is not easy financially for a French club to be able to recruit Mexican players. in France, the small clubs use the players of the formation a lot to then resell these same players”.

Subsequently, he spoke of the good adaptation they could have in the French championship. “Mexican players would adapt well to French football as they are technically very good players and French football needs players who are good technically, it’s a fairly strong championship physically. I hope the French championship can have many more Mexican players”.

It should be remembered that the Portuguese striker achieved a great stage with the Paris Saint Germain between 2003-2008, where he was three times champion scorer of the maximum circuit of France (2002, 2006 and 2007). Similarly, he managed to win the Coupe de France tournament four times, three of them with the PSG and one with him Girondins of Bordeaux.

At national team level, the “Azores Cyclone” managed to become historic, since in 2005 it overtook the mythical Eusebius as the greatest netbreaker in the history of the Portuguese team, a record he held for eight years, until the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo which already has 118 targets.

He was part of the team that played the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cups, Germany 2006, as good as Eurocup Belgium-Netherlands 2000 and Portugal 2004 (being a finalist in the latter).