Víctor Ferráez founded Mexico FC with the aim of promoting the talent of young Mexicans in Spanish football, and dreams of soon achieving promotion to the second division.
MADRID, Spain.- In an unprecedented move, a Mexican soccer team has landed in the lower categories of Spanish soccer with the aim of developing the talent of promising youngsters and projecting them to the highest level. Mexico FC, of the Third Federation of the RFEF, which is equivalent to the fifth Spanish division and based in Madrid, has set its sights on Mexican players who play in Mexican leagues, with the intention of providing them with comprehensive training in the Old Continent.
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Víctor Ferráez Gasque, the club’s main shareholder, revealed in an exclusive interview with ESPN that the idea of creating Mexico FC arose in 2017 and that it has the support of emblematic figures of Mexican soccer such as Luis García and Luis Roberto Alves Zague. The project, says Ferráez, goes beyond training high-performance soccer players, also seeking to develop well-rounded young people, both academically and personally.
“It is a life project,” said Ferráez. “We want to develop young footballers and at the same time prepare them academically and mentally.” The long-term goal is clear: to move up from category to category until reaching the Spanish Second Division within seven or eight years.
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A hotbed of Mexican talents
Mexico FC has set its sights on young Mexican players, between 18 and 19 years old, who play in the lower categories of teams such as those of the Liga MX and the Expansion League. The idea is that these young talents can complete their training in Spanish football and, eventually, obtain Spanish nationality to open doors in the main European leagues.
The plan is to reach the Second Division in seven or eight years, moving up the divisions every two or three years. And over time, there will be several Mexicans who have become naturalized Spaniards playing in the Second or First Division,” explained Ferráez.
It should be noted that Mexico FC will not be made up exclusively of Mexican footballers, as the team belongs to the Spanish Federation. However, the quota of foreigners will always come from Mexico.
