World Cup 2014: Diego Luna Says El Tri Will Do 'Very Well'

Actor Diego Luna is convinced that the Mexican soccert team will do very well in the World Cup Brazil 2014 which begins on Thursday, despite criticism it has received for their poor performances in the warm-up matches. The Tricolor will begin the World Cup with two defeats in their last warm-up matches, which has generated immense disappointment from some of their fans and critics in the Mexican press. Yet Diego Luna has stood up for El Tri.

Diego Luna says El Tri have a great chance of winning the World Cup. "You must say this dude is crazy, he does not read newspapers, but yes, yes I read them and I think we will do much better than what people think, we will go very, very well," the actor said in a press conference in Mexico City. The actor said that Mexico's participation in the World Cup Brazil 2014, which begins next Friday against Cameroon, will be very good and even sees them as a match for Brazil.

"I'm going to remind everyone of that ironic laugh that you just had," joked the actor during a press conference for the second season of the play "It Gets Better Each Time We Say Goodbye," a monologue directed by Alejandro Ricaño that will run for six weeks beginning June 28 in Mexic City. Luna, 34, is a football fan, something which has influenced his work as an actor: in "Rudo y Cursi" (2008), with his friend Gael García Bernal, he played an amateur who dreams of becoming professional .