Facing pressure from media and fans alike, and now amid controversial comments made about Mexican players (not playing) overseas, embattled coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is out to get El Tricolor back to winning ways in a friendly against Bolivia at Dick’s Sporting Goods Stadium in Denver, Colo., on Wednesday (TV: 9 pm ET/7 pm MT live on Telemundo).
After falling 2-0 to the USA in its World Cup qualifying opener, Mexico now sits at the bottom of the CONCACAF hexagonal and faces a match at home on March 28 against Costa Rica before playing away at Honduras on April 1.
In other news swirling within the Mexico camp, Eriksson used the example of Omar Bravo returning to Tigres after an uneventful stay at Spain’s Deportiva Coruna to say that if the recent group of Mexican players who have gone overseas “are not regulars in their teams, it’s better they come back. There’s no point in being in Europe for the sake of it,” according to a Reuters report.