Herc Gomez

The good thing, it's only soccer that's expensive now.

Why is Marcel Ruiz trying to come back in three weeks' time?

He's trying to prove to the national team coach that he can play on a partially torn ACL and be taken to the World Cup.

Any footballer's dream.

That's what you dream of.

From the moment you kick a ball, from the moment you find out what a World Cup is, that's what you want to do.

And he just won his starting position this summer.

On that Gold Cup team that won the Gold Cup for Mexico, he just earned his starting position and he's been keeping it.

And in the midst of all this uncertainty of this player doesn't show up, this player doesn't show up, we don't know who the right back is, we don't know who the goalkeeper is, we don't know about this defender, we don't know about... You knew about Marcel Ruiz.

He's one of the few constants that...

the Mexican national team had and you thought you can count on.

In comes in this ACL injury and somewhere along the lines, it gets into his head that he can play on a partially torn ACL.

He's 25.

He'll be 29 at the next World Cup.

If that's in his future, maybe he doesn't want to take that chance.

He's doing anything and everything to make it to this World Cup.

Here's the issue.

Sometimes you need somebody to save yourself

from you.

Sometimes you need coaches, doctors, somebody within that organization to say, this isn't safe.