Raul Jimenez Wolves
Mexico are hopeful of including Raul Jimenez in their Olympic Games campaign.
Gerard Martino said: “Raul is good. He’s training normally with us, apart from contact training. He’s not doing that. When there are some physical contact training exercises, we get him training separately with another member of the coaching staff. In terms of how he’s progressing, we are adhering to the protocols the Wolves team have given us. He hasn’t yet started to engage in contact training at his club, and we are monitoring him medically and training on the pitch. We are certainly responding to what his team wants in his training.”
Gerard Martino said: “Raul is good. He’s training normally with us, apart from contact training. He’s not doing that. When there are some physical contact training exercises, we get him training separately with another member of the coaching staff. In terms of how he’s progressing, we are adhering to the protocols the Wolves team have given us. He hasn’t yet started to engage in contact training at his club, and we are monitoring him medically and training on the pitch. We are certainly responding to what his team wants in his training.”Football at the Tokyo Olympics, postponed from last year, is due to take place from July 21-August 7 – just before the start of next season.
Gerard Martino added: “I think we need to see when his club will decide to play him, when he gets the green light from doctors definitively. If Raul doesn’t get back playing towards the end of the season, I think that means we have much less of a chance of having him available. If he does, there is a lot more time looking forward to the Gold Cup and the Olympic Games and him being available for those games. But of course it all depends on what happens at Wolves in the coming 50 days.”
The 29-year-old has not played since suffering a fractured skull in Wolves’ game with Arsenal in November. However, he has returned to training with his club and has linked up with the Mexico squad ahead of today’s friendly with Wales in Cardiff. Mexico boss Gerardo Martino has not given up hope of seeing him represent his country in the summer – but accepts Wolves are in control of the situation.
