Defeats show us areas for improvement: Pedro López

Mexico City. Soccer is an emotional territory for Pedro López, coach of the Mexican women’s team. As the debates between winning and playing well are reproduced in different sports programs, the Spaniard prefers to manage the tranquility of his players in another way, taking care that the obsession with beating the great powers of the world does not represent more than a new degree of difficulty in your process.

“We have to get out of our comfort zone,” he warns at a press conference, after losing to Colombia in their first friendly in the United States. López is convinced that only by facing the best rivals, even though the results are negative, can he generate a greater response in his team to continue growing towards the World Cup.

“When you only win games, many times you don’t see the areas for improvement. Losing is like a slap in the face, a slap that wakes us up. But it is also how we demand that response from ourselves. If there is that change between one party and another, this concentration will have made sense,” she says.

The Mexican team will face Australia this Tuesday in San Antonio, one of the highest ranked rivals in the FIFA ranking.

For Monterrey defender Rebeca Bernal, the next challenge also marks a change in the way she prepares, especially after verifying that the level of Concacaf is not the same as that which exists in Europe and other parts of the world.

“We value this type of match a lot, because the most comfortable and easiest thing would be to get an inferior opponent and make everything easier,” he explains. “Australia had a great World Cup, it is going to bring out the best in us individually and collectively to know where we stand.”