Guillermo Ochoa

Mexico · La Liga · GK · MEX · age 41

The last dance

A home World Cup for Mexico's eternal No. 1

Some images outlast the tournaments that produced them. Guillermo Ochoa's wall of saves against Brazil in 2014 — the diving stop from Neymar, the reflex on the line — is one of them, the night a goalkeeper single-handedly held a host nation to a draw and became a folk hero back home.

At 40, 'Memo' Ochoa has been Mexico's last line of defence across the best part of two decades, 151 caps and counting, his name a fixture every June a World Cup comes around. He has carried the weight of a country that expects, and absorbed its disappointments without ever flinching from the spotlight.

2026 is Mexico's tournament: a co-host, the opening fanfare, a nation watching from its own stadiums. For Ochoa to walk out one more time, at home, in front of the supporters who have sung his name for twenty years, would be a farewell written exactly as it should be.

Perfil en la plantilla del Mundial 2026

Selección: Mexico
Posición: GK
Rol en la plantilla: Titular proyectado
Ranking en su posición: #1
Internacionalidades: 151
Goles internacionales: 0
: 0.30(valoración del modelo, 0–1)
: 0.0%

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Forma reciente

Cooling

2021/22 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (6.71 vs 7.04).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	PrgP	PrgC
World Cup 2022	3	290	51	11
World Cup 2018	4	378	48	14
All tournaments	7	668	99	25

Event data from StatsBomb open data, covering the World Cup, Euro, Copa América and AFCON finals. Small per-tournament samples — totals shown, not per-90 rates.

▸How to read this table— 11 columns explained

MP: Matches played in the tournament.
Min: Total minutes on the pitch.
G: Goals scored (penalties in normal play included; shootouts excluded).
A: Assists — passes that directly led to a goal.
xG: Expected goals — summed per-shot quality (StatsBomb's model).
Sh: Shots taken.
KP: Key passes — passes that led to a shot.
PrgP: Progressive passes — completed passes moving the ball ≥10m toward goal.
PrgC: Progressive carries — carries advancing ≥5m toward goal.
Tkl: Tackles won.
Int: Interceptions.

Tournament shot-stopping

Save %

79.4%

Saves / 90

3.64

100

Goals prev. (proxy)

-0.25

On-target shots faced / 90: 4.58
Tournament matches: 7 (668 min)

Save metrics ranked vs 15 keepers in the same major-tournament shot data (StatsBomb). Higher = better. Goals prevented (proxy) = pre-shot xG of on-target shots faced minus goals conceded. StatsBomb open data carries no post-shot xG, so this is an approximation — read as a relative ranking, not a literal goals-saved total. Penalties and shootouts are excluded.

161

Partidos en carrera

14,421

Minutos en carrera

Goles

Asistencias

0.0

Career — goals & xG by season

GoalsxG

Temporada a temporada

Temporada	Club	Liga
2011-12	Ajaccio	Ligue 1	37	3,326	—	—
2012-13	Ajaccio	Ligue 1	38	3,391	—	—
2013-14	Ajaccio	Ligue 1	37	3,330	—	—
2015-16	Málaga	La Liga	11	954	—	—
2016-17	Granada	La Liga	38	3,420	—	—

Datos de FBref hasta 2022-23. Las filas marcadas como wiki son entradas de máximo goleador de Wikipedia y solo incluyen goles.

▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained

MP: Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
Mins: Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
Goals: Goals scored (penalties included).
Assists: Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
xG: Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
xAG: Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.

FBref data ends 2022-23; current-season rows tagged wiki come from Wikipedia top-scorer tables and carry only goals.