Toluca play Major League Soccer (MLS) side Los Angeles FC in the second leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup semi-finals on Wednesday, while Chivas de Guadalajara are preparing for their Liga MX play-off quarter-final on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Toluca requested permission on Tuesday that the FMF release forward Alexis Vega and left-back Jesus Gallardo, angering rivals Chivas, who had already released five players; goalkeeper Raul Rangel, midfielder Luis Romo, United States-born midfielder Brian Gutierrez, winger Roberto Alvarado and forward Armando Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
Toluca’s request to hold back players to prioritise their Champions Cup semi-final, which they trail 2-1 on aggregate after the first leg, was seen as a breach of the agreement made with Liga MX clubs.<\/p>\n
Chivas president Amaury Vergara wrote on X, external<\/a> on Tuesday: , external<\/a>“Agreements are valid only when all parties respect them. I instructed the Sports Directorate that our players report tomorrow at the club’s facilities.” <\/p>\n Chivas were beaten 3-1 by Tigres in the first leg of the play-off quarter-final last weekend. <\/p>\n On Wednesday, Chivas said: “We respect our players’ desire to represent Mexico at the 2026 World Cup, and we will in no way be a factor that hinders that possibility, therefore they will report to the training camp on time and in the proper manner.”<\/p>\n At a news conference, also on Wednesday after the FMF statement, Mexico head coach Aguirre said: “As you know, the statement is very clear: whoever doesn’t come will be out of the World Cup. We can’t be flexible, not at all.”<\/p>\n He thanked Chivas and Toluca, adding: “Nobody has broken the agreement. So far the play-offs have been played without national team players. So far we are all in agreement with what we signed, what we discussed, what we saw – they have supported us unconditionally.<\/p>\n “I am here to explain that this is a unique project and that we are committed to it. Nothing extraordinary has happened, and everything is proceeding as planned, with the great support of everyone – fans, players, management and the press. We are all in the same boat, and I think it is important to tell you that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toluca play Major League Soccer (MLS) side Los Angeles FC in the second leg of the Concacaf Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-654395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}