Juan Pablo Villalobos, Writer: “A Team that Has Three, Four or Five Players Who Weren’t Born in Mexico Is Perfectly Mexican”

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In this new episode of ‘Al habla’, journalist Gabriela Warkentin talks with the writer Juan Pablo Villalobos (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, 1973), about the reissue of her book ‘Al estilo Jalisco’ (Almadía, 2026), a story inspired by the Brazilian football team of 1970, but above all it is a talk about the pleasure, passion and joy that soccer provokes, more now, in the middle of the 2026 World Cup, of which Mexico is host together with the United S…