Hector Herrera: Mexico Must Stop Thinking We're a Small Team

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Hector Herrera has urged Mexico to shed its small-side mentality and start thinking about winning the FIFA World Cup™.

El Tri have been eliminated from the Round of 16 at each of the past six global finals – by Bulgaria in 1994, Germany in 1998, USA in 2002, Argentina in 2006 and 2010, and the Netherlands in 2014.

“We have to stop these fears, stop believing we’re a small team, stop going on about ‘the fifth game’, believing that we won't reach the fifth match,” Herrera told Marca. “We have to think about becoming champions, in wanting to lift the World Cup.

“I think if we reach the next round, it is proof that we are up for big things and can cause that surprise and impose the feeling that we are a great side at the World Cup."