The King Baldwin Stadium saw the soul in extremis injection represents for Mexico this historic victory against Italy. Certainly not the World Cup yet but with the difficult environment that was forged from the exclusion of Jonathan dos Santos in the final list and the unfortunate statements made by his father, this win heals temporarily wound.
Javier Aguirre jumped to his probable starting lineup against South Africa, with the novelty of Oscar Perez in goal and Paul Aguilar in the plot right. Marcello Lippi, in turn, stopped its three crowns in midfield: Andrea Pirlo, Claudio Marchisio and Danielle de Rossi. The big question of the tifosi was knowing who was going to put in that area.