Julián Quiñones and Álvaro Fidalgo arrived at the Mexico national team camp on Monday, and Santiago Giménez and Obed Vargas joined on Tuesday as Javier Aguirre kept pulling together the group he wants for the road to 2026.
Giménez and Vargas worked under the coaching staff at the High Performance Center, while Johan Vásquez is set to arrive Wednesday to join training. Raúl Jiménez will link up in Los Angeles and is expected to report in the next few hours as Mexico prepares for a friendly against Australia in Los Angeles.
The sequence has been deliberate. The players from Liga MX came first, and then the European-based group began to land, giving Aguirre a chance to start building the side he believes should be closer to complete for the final stretch of friendlies before 2026. Getting them into the same city matters because it gives the staff more time to work on combinations and roles instead of waiting for arrivals to trickle in from different leagues and time zones.
That is also where the friction sits. Mexico is trying to shape an eventual definitive squad, but the roster is still assembling piece by piece. Quiñones and Fidalgo were already in camp on Monday, Giménez and Vargas followed on Tuesday, Vásquez is due Wednesday, and Jiménez will arrive in Los Angeles shortly, which means Aguirre is still waiting to have nearly everyone together before the team can really move from gathering names to fitting them into one plan.
For Mexico, the immediate test is Australia. The larger one is whether Aguirre can use these days together to turn a scattered roster into something settled before the last friendlies and the push toward 2026.
