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Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio named the 37-year-old former
Barcelona centre back, now playing for his first club Atlas, for
matches away to Canada on March 25 and at home to the same
opponents four days later.
Marquez, who has 129 caps and was Mexico's captain at his fourth
World Cup tournament in Brazil in 2014, last played for his
country in October when they won a 2017 Confederations Cup
playoff against the United States.
Colombian Osorio, who took charge last October, has dropped
Malaga goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, Real Sociedad forward Carlos
Vela and brothers Giovani and Jonathan Dos Santos of LA Galaxy
and Villarreal respectively, who were all part of the squad that
won the CONCACAF Gold Cup last July.
Mexico lead Group A with six points after victories over El
Salvador and Honduras. The top two teams in each of the three
four-team groups go through to the fifth round which begins in
November 2016.
The top three in the six-team final round qualify for the 2018
finals in Russia and the fourth-placed team goes into an
intercontinental playoff against a team from Asia. (Reporting by
Carlos Calvo; Writing by Rex Gowar; Editing by Nick Mulvenney)
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