The 40-year-old goalkeeper is making his sixth appearance in a Mexican World Cup squad and previously suggested he'd quit the international game after the tournament, but he's now admitted he can't find "meaning" in the sport without playing for his country.

In a tearful interview with FIFA for their Letters That Unite series, he said: “The Mexican national team has always been my compass in my career and my life; it’s given me direction.

“I can’t understand my career without the national team. I don’t know what my career would be like without the national team. And now that (my time with) the national team is ending, I don’t see any more meaning in football. I don’t see any more meaning in continuing to play.

“I’ve enjoyed each moment there. I gave it my all. I leave in peace, with my head held high and proud to have experienced this.”

The AEL Limassol keeper admitted earlier this year he was entering his "final training camp" with Mexico and will never stop feeling proud of representing his country.

He wrote on X at the time: “Today my final training camp starts.

“I’ve experienced impossible nights, eternal stadiums, anthems that still make me tremble and moments that changed my life forever.

“And even so … each time Mexico call me, something inside me begins again.”