Nicolás Ibánez says he wants to play for Mexico, Cocca and what he would decide with the Tigres striker

Nicolás Ibáñez believes that yes, that there is a real possibility to represent the national team of Mexico, it is that the green team, at this moment, needs a striker, given the problems of Raúl Jiménez and the intermittence that Santiago Giménez has in soccer of Europe. A case that opens the chance for the naturalized to play in the Tri.

In this sense, the Tigres forward, in a interview for Fox Sports Mexico, stated that he does want to play for the Mexican team. However, there are certain requirements that the athlete must meet, to play for another country, without being born on this site. One of them, living five years in his new place, something that the athlete has already fulfilled.

But now, the soccer player opens this panorama for Diego Cocca, who is the new coach of the Mexican team. In Mexico, a debate is generated by the resistance to naturalized players, whose last antecedent was Rogelio Funes Mori. The Monterrey striker is one of the figures who passed through Mexico, played in the World Cup but nothing happened with Rayados' 9.

Can Cocca take Ibáñez to the Mexican national team?

Yes, the coach would consider naturalized. In his first press conference, the strategist made it clear that he would call soccer players who are Mexican, by birth or who have a paper that accredits them as such. Thus, now Nicolás Ibáñez does have the chance to play for the Mexican team, the only thing he has to do now is the naturalization process.