Chucky’s Last Call: Redemption or Farewell?
Imagine the scene: it’s like when that friend who went to live in another country, who you only remember from his stories on the beach, suddenly appears at the door of your house asking to stay. Thus, almost without warning, Hirving “El Chucky” Lozano has returned to the Tricolor squad. After a drama that lasted longer than an Elite season, the San Diego FC striker has his golden opportunity (or fool’s gold, who knows) to win back “Vasco” Aguirre.
Nothing more and nothing less than 18 months have passed since his last role with the green. That in football years is like three lives of an influencer. His last act was, how can we forget, releasing a Shakespeare-style monologue but in a locker room version, openly criticizing Jaime Lozano‘s tactics after the defeat against the United States. The football equivalent of uploading a hot tweet and deleting it, but without the option to delete.
The outlook: few candidates and many doubts
The situation on the left wing is clearer than the DMs of a verified user. With Julián Quiñones out of the photo (the technician simply left it in view) and César Huerta injured (the typical bad luck that happens to you just when you were going to upload your highlight to TikTok), the path for Chucky is clearer than a yogi’s mind. His direct competition is basically Alexis Vega, and that is another drama that we better leave for another chapter.
Vasco Aguirre, like a grandfather who says “what is past is past”, has declared that he knows nothing about those supposed privileges that Lozano asked for when he played in Europe. For him, everyone starts from scratch. Although, let’s be honest, Chucky is starting his “zero” a year late. How to get to a series on Netflix when everyone has already made spoilers.
What he carries in his backpack: the experience of two World Cups, that goal against Germany that made us believe that we were world champions for 3 minutes, and an explosiveness that, in theory, he should still have. What he doesn’t have: a goal with the National Team for two and a half years. His last goal was against Jamaica in March 2023, a time when Threads did not yet exist.
His song, an adaptation of “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes, is one of those anthems that resurface in nostalgic drunkenness. The million dollar question is whether we will hear it again in a stadium with him on the field, or if it will remain in the memory, along with the iPods and the hope of a champion America.
This is the moment of truth. It’s not just because of these friendlies against Japan and Korea. It is for the pass to the World Cup in 2026. It is your last mission, if you decide to accept it. Chucky is not fighting a rival on the court; He is fighting against his own shadow, against the passage of time and against the short memory of football. The clock is ticking, and this time, it is not the rival defense that is scared, but its own career.
Can the man who once drove an entire country crazy do it once again? Or, as Generation Z would say: is the comeback greater than the setback? Vasco Aguirre has his headphones on, waiting for the response. And we, with the popcorn ready.
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