The Betis midfielder and one of his captains Andres Guardado will enter the legend of the pentamundialistas in the imminent world of Qatar for which he has been summoned by the national coach of Mexico, Argentine Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martinounder whose orders he has been training since Monday at the concentration of the Mexican team in Gerona.
At 36 years old, ‘The Little Prince’ does not stop breaking records and will now enter the select club of football greats who have had a fundtrack record and quality to go to five World Cups, which means a minimum of twenty years in the elite.
The midfielder from Guadalajara already matched the mark of 177 games against Colombia last September with defender Claudio Suárez’s Triwho retired from Chivas in the United States in 2009 after a fruitful twenty-year career with Los Pumas, Tigres and Guadalajara in his country.
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Now, with Martino’s call-up, he is on the verge of making history again after having far exceeded the caps of other Mexican soccer legends such as Raphael Marquez (147), Pavel Pardo (146) and the former Sevilla player Gerardo Torrado (146).
Stored in Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and now Qatar
‘The Little Prince’, who debuted with ‘Tri’ at the age of 19 in 2005, has played in the World Cups Germany, South Africa, Brazil Y Russiaand will enter Qatar in the pentamundialistas club that includes his compatriots Antonio ‘Tota’ Carbajal and Rafael Márquez, the German midfielder Lotthar Matthaus and the Italian goalkeeper Gian Luigi Buffon.
The Guadalajara midfielder has also pulverized the record of being the Mexican player who has played the most games in Europe, surpassing Hugo Sánchez’s 495 with Atlético de MadridReal Madrid, Rayo Vallecano and Austrian LASK Linz.
Andrés Guardado is one of the heavyweights of the team led by the Chilean Betis coach, Manuel Pellegrini, who arrived in the summer of 2017 from the Dutch PSV and with whom he has renewed until June 2023.
Andrés Guardado, who began his career at Atlas in his native Guadalajara, made the leap to Europe in 2007 to Deportivo de La Coruña, where he played for five seasons and played 149 games before signing for Valencia, with whom he played 70 before leaving for German Bayer Leverkusen (7) and Dutch PSV, where he did so 102 times before signing for Betis.
‘The Little Prince’, in addition to Hugo Sánchez, has surpassed other gold names in Mexican soccer such as Rafael Márquez, Carlos Vela, Héctor Moreno, his namesake Herrera, Nery Castillo, Giovanni Dos Santos or Javier in his fifteen years in Europe. Chicharito Hernandez.
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