Alexis Vega

He's 28 years old.

To his left is a Mexico international, Alexis Vega, one of the big names in this team.

This guy, I saw him live and in person.

When he was playing for Cruz Azul, I was in the house when they played Philadelphia Union a few years ago in this competition.

Very, very good player is Alexis Vega.

He gets to start on the left and on the right is the Brazilian Elenu, who is at this time was very, very close to a move to CSK Moscow.

Looks like it did not happen.

It was a probably 75 or more percent for Monterey.

And that's what gets me interested in saying, all right, we can have a discussion about building around this player.

But if you look at the field right now, Seb, Alexis Vega? Sure, he scored a goal in the League's Cup final.

He's a shell of himself to what he was when he was the best player in Liga Mequis.

Álvaro Fidalgo? He's having troubles right now getting his body straight for Real Betis.

Why is Andrada back?

Yeah, yeah, but what's Arbelin Pineda doing trying to control that ball there? Just gets his pocket picked, Alexis Vega.

I'll take that, 1-0.

It's

1-0 for Toluca, Alexis Vega, and then 30th minute chance for Rallados de Monterrey.

Rica Chavez, the header, and the keeper.

It's

But now the question is, because you saw her players like Hugo Gonzalez... who for many, many people thought he's probably out of a starting job in Liga MX, has played a crucial role with Toluca.

And that's when we produce.

That's when we let Vega do his thing or whatever.

Or Rayo.

But, obviously, Rayo gets packed up by a right back that I didn't even know fucking existed.

I'd go

Benedetto.

And then Toluca, Alexis Vega.

I honestly argue...

And then when you have that behind, um, the center back like Pereyra or, or Mendez, Gallardo running up and down the flank.

We know Gallardo for Toluca is a damn demon, right? And then Alexis Vega floating around the ar- middle areas, picking up the ball.

Toluca is-

Perfect setup

The, so there's some, some fairly big names on this team.

I think Alexis Vega is probably the one that most folks will recognize.

He's a regular with the Mexican national team.

Lots and lots of goal contributions over the last few seasons.

Right.

Um, you know, this is gonna be a big one because you have the likes of Alexis Vega, Jesús Gallardo, Federico Pereyra, right? These are, these are big names in, um, Liga MX who-

Mm-hmm

... have been consistently at the top, if not, you know, like, just always winning, um, in, in the same way that a Club America or a Tigres, you know, uh, have been.

27 years old, so he's gonna be actively in his prime the following years, unless a better winger comes through the ranks.

A young one, potentially with more hope, more optimism, because the challengers like Alexis Vega and Huerta just don't seem to cut it.

Unless a bigger name, a more promising name comes up for the winger spot, it's gonna be Alvarado starting for us in 2030.

Yeah.

It's just those two players.

I don't see Chino, I don't see Linez, I don't see any other player.

Alexis Vega has been good enough to play for Mexico.

As a backup, sure, but a- as, like, a hard backup, though, only getting like 5, 10 minutes in a game.

El, el partido contra Inglaterra la verdad es que la, las... la necesidad que teníamos de gol hizo que Javier Aguirre pusiera todo lo, lo que él consideraba lo mejor disponible y creo que ahí Santi, pues no. Santi y todos, ¿no? Pero creo que no, no dio lo que necesitábamos en ese momento.

No, no. Y se quedaron en la banca futbolistas que po-- que eran de un corte diferente, ofensivo, como Alexis Vega, como Luis Chávez.

Que uno hubiera pensado a priori, bueno, si urge gol, también son perspectivas.

Pero bueno, ya es irnos a un tema diferente.