WIt is easy to forget that Raúl Jiménez has been subjected to any serious injuries for the best player in the Concacaf Nations League finals at the Concacaf Nations League finals, the dazzling free kicks score, Raúl Jiménez was subjected to any serious injury. Or less than five years ago, there were questions about whether to play the sport again.
Nevertheless, Jiménez joke to enjoy a few singles to celebrate the victory of El Tri’s first Nations League with two goals in the semifinals of Mexico against Canada, with two goals in the final against Panama. A stylish headband is the only visible reminder of Arsenal’s collision with David Luiz in November 2020 – an event that breaks the skull and causes brain hemorrhage and can cost his life without the appropriate and timely time medical interventions.
Although Jiménez and his family were left in a blooming game career in the Premier League (then with wolves) and Mexico, Jiménez and his family have no physical records for months to return to a normal life. Jiménez doesn’t need someone.
After two goals in the League of Nations League on Sunday, the CBS, Mexico’s first win in four attempts to secure the first win in the CBS’ye “Great to return after what I experienced,” he said. “This is a great example you should never lose your faith and continue. You know what you can do and you know your level.”
Jiménez rediscovered the level, the fans in Mexico are now third, seven, Jared Borgetti behind and 13 Javier “Chicharito” Hernández’in climbing all the time behind the scoring lists. Now the leader in the team; Umana 33 -year -old old statesman to take Mexico back to the top of Concacaf.
Nevertheless, even after returning from the accident to the field, even if this March in the international window of Fulham scored a goal again, the attention in Mexico focused on a different striker who is expected to lead Mexico’s line in the 2026 World Cup: 23 -year -old Santi Giménez. The striker scored a goal to have fun at the club level and won a move from Feyenoord to AC Milan this winter, but he could not score a goal for El Tri since the 2023 Golden Cup final.
Football fans rarely focus on consistency. A bright, new rising star is much more exciting. However, consistency is what Jiménez has been in the Premier League in the last two seasons and in recent weeks. After scoring seven goals last season, after cooling in the back of the year, Jimenez scored 10 goals in 29 Premier League match for Fulham this season – Each FA Cup and a goal in the League Cup.
Some of his goals were perfect. Others are not remarkable, or as you expect from a penalty expert, as in January as a double against Ipswich town. Even this month, before starting an international office, Jiménez was in Fulham’s first touch of his chest to settle in the opening goal against Brighton before he began to win the host coast.
Especially for Mexico, it is important to score any goals. Targets and even consistent moments give El Tri much more: a well -performing player in one of the best leagues in the world.
He also gives Mexico a confident, experienced leader that he might not expect to have when he took over the team in the 2024 Copa América, the manager of Javier Aguirre. When Jiménez or Giménez had to begin, Aguirre’s answer was that: Both. Raúl had a partnership with Gimenez and both Nations League, and then admitted that he liked to work with another forward because it meant less attention than the rear lines of Mexico’s rivals.
However, the mentoring it provides is not only for Giménez; Jiménez’s experience can even be an example for a World Cup veteran like Edson álvarez, a 27 -year -old West Ham midfielder Edson álvarez, who is wearing arm band for Mexico this month but still set up a leadership style.
Although Aguirre will celebrate Jiménez’s 35th birthday before starting the tournament Mexico territory, there are many reasons in the last staff he prepared for the 2026 World Cup.
For now, Jiménez insists that his focus is to help Mexico in the short term and to roll good vibrations on his way back to London.
“This is a great success – put aside the goals, when we had to defend or attack, we did the team’s work in the same way,” he said after the last victory. “We have to be smart, we need to know how to manage the matches, and we’ve got what we’re rejected.”
Now, Mexico enters the summer gold cup to look for something less concrete. They want to be the bully of the region again, the undisputed best team. Regional superiority has decreased in the last few years, but Raúl’s revival gives hope to Mexico.
