Javier Aguirre: I leave the Mexican National Team in peace; we are even

Javier Aguirre described his return to manage the Mexican national team as a predestined event, feeling he is in the "best moment of my life, emotionally speaking, balanced, I am at peace." He accepted the invitation from Juan Carlos Rodríguez, then commissioner of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), to join the new project alongside his wife, Silvia.

Aguirre recalled his previous tenures, particularly the 2002 World Cup elimination against the United States, which he labeled a "painful defeat." He admitted to crying twice in his 50-year football career, once from emotion during a Barcelona-Real Madrid match and again after that specific loss. "I would be lying if I told you I could have done anything more. I made a tremendous mistake; an error I accepted in two seconds," he confessed.

Now, after the team's elimination from the 2026 World Cup, Aguirre expressed a sense of closure. "Now we didn't do so badly. If there was something, a debt in the past, beyond carrying the guilt, I think we are even. I leave calm and proud of the family and connection we formed," he concluded.

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Cuando me hablaron dije ‘es la mía, es la mía’. Estoy predestinado a ello. Estoy en el mejor momento de mi vida, emocionalmente hablando, equilibrado, estoy en paz. Soy un hombre mayor