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FMF president: Mexico has spoken with 24 candidates about national team job

Conventional wisdom is that the Mexican federation has cast a relatively small net as it searches for Juan Carlos Osorio's replacement as senior men's national team manager. Conventional wisdom is wrong, according to Federacion Mexicana de Futbol president Yon de Luisa.

De Luisa said there have been a number of interviews conducted, both with managers based in Europe and in the Americas, with general secretary Guillermo Cantu, director of national teams Dennis Te Kloese and sporting director of the national team Gerardo Torrado leading the search.

"It's been a process with a lot of work, of a deep calmness, though, that we have really talented people that know what they're doing," he said at an event in Guadalajara focusing on sports psychology, which Mexico legend Rafa Marquez helped organized.