Mexico will play their fifteenth participation in a World Cup in the under-17 category (Twitter/@miseleccionmx)

There Mexican team got his ticket for the Under 17 World Cup which will take place in Peru at the end of 2023, will be its fifteenth participation in the category tournamentof which he has already been champion twice, including once in the same country that will host this year.

Mexican team defeated The Savior by a score of three to zero, with a brace of Jose Urias and one more Stephano Carrillowith which they qualified for the semi-finals of the Concacaf Under-17 World Cup. The four teams that reach the semi-finals end up with one of the World Cup byes in the category, being those led by Raul Chabrand the first to get it.

Mexico found themselves at the top of Group E, where they faced Curacao, Guatemala and Panamawinning two games and drawing a game, a situation that gave him the bye to the eighth final, where he faced Nicaragua arrivals from the preliminary round of the tournament. Without any complications, they qualified for the quarter-finals, ending with a 6-0 victory over the Nicaraguans.

After eliminating El Salvador, the tricolor team awaits a rival in the next round, which will come from the cross between Panama and Honduras, seek to reach the final, even if those who face each other in the prelude will already know that they are qualified for the World Cup. Mexico is on a mission to qualify for the championship game, since it is the current quadruple pre-world championwhich he has won consecutively since 2013.

The Mexican national team beat El Salvador with a brace from José Urías.  (Twitter/@miseleccionmx)
The Mexican national team beat El Salvador with a brace from José Urías. (Twitter/@miseleccionmx)

He Under 17 World Cup will take place from November 10 to December 2, 2023 at Peru, there will be 23 teams with the host participating, being divided into six groups of four. So far the host team, the two qualifiers from Oceania, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and the Concacaf teams, are the only ones to have managed to secure their participation.

Mexico has already managed to be world champion in the category twice, the first in Peru 2005 and the second when they were hosts in 2011. From then on, the generation of footballers led by Raúl Chabrand will seek to repeat the feat on Peruvian territory.

The championship obtained in 2005 was the first of a World Cup for the Mexican national team in all categories, male and female. The tricolor box was ordered by Jesus Ramirez and had players like Giovani Dos Santos, Carlos Vela, Cesar Villaluz and others who managed to reach the top division after winning the final against Brazil by a score of three to zero.

In 2011, the U-17 team was crowned on the lawn of the Aztec Stadium after beating Uruguay at the end; this group ordered him Raul Potro Gutierrez. Have players like Carlos Fierro, Antonio Briseño, Giovani Casillas and Julio Gómezsome remaining active until now and others being forgotten after the championship.

The Concacaf Under-17 World Cup semi-final will be played on February 24.  (Twitter/@miseleccionmx)
The Concacaf Under-17 World Cup semi-final will be played on February 24. (Twitter/@miseleccionmx)

Mexico have also lost two finals, one in 2013 against Nigeria and the last in 2019 against Brazil, which hosted this World Cup. After a year 2022 full of failures for the Mexican national team, male and female, in different categories, the under-17 team will seek to bring joy back to the country as it has already managed to do, trying to leave behind the bitter pill and exceed the second place obtained in the previous championship.

The semi-final match of Concacaf World Cup 2023they will play it on Friday February 24 with a schedule to be confirmed and, in case of advance, the final would be played on Sunday 26.

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