No, he was at the match of course. Aguirre missed most of the training sessions, though. I think it's fine to give credit to the team for this performance. Honduras sucked, but they are at least a team that went to the World Cup and gave Mexico fits in qualification. I'd say all the goals had real quality. Some Debbie Downers bemoan the return of the veterans, but seeing that Endo, Hasebe, et al. can still play football has considerable option value. After all, if you're leading and want to kill the game by playing keep-away, who else do you want on the field?
Uh oh, that rumour is rather Tospo-style. Their priority should be CB, DMF, LWB over any attacking player. http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20141115-00250448-soccerk-socc