06/10/2026
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🇲🇽 On Thursday, Guillermo Ochoa will walk onto the pitch at Estadio Azteca for the opening match of the 2026 World Cup. He is 40 years old. If he plays, he joins Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the only men in history to appear in six World Cups. He will do it at home. In the only stadium in history to host three World Cup opening matches. In front of four billion people.
Mexico and South Africa played this exact fixture in 2010 — the opening match of the first World Cup ever held on African soil — drawing 1-1 in Johannesburg to the sound of vuvuzelas. Sixteen years later, same coach, same opponent, this time on Mexican soil. The country US media spent years calling dangerous and unstable opens the biggest sporting event in human history in four days. Ochoa has been in goal for every chapter of this story. Thursday he writes the last one.
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