MEXICO CITY - Mexico kicks off what promises to be a busy 2013 campaign with a friendly against Denmark on Wednesday at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The meeting inaugurates a schedule that will see El Tri play 10 World Cup Qualifying encounters and at least three games in both the FIFA Confederations Cup and CONCACAF Gold Cup over the next 12 months.

With the opening match of the CONCACAF Hexagonal against Jamaica right around the corner, there is an urgency to pick up where 2012 left off.

Head coach Jose Manuel de la Torre guided his side to a perfect 6-0-0 record in the semifinal stage of qualifying for Brazil 2014. The team scored a round-best 15 goals and equaled Panama for the round-low in goals conceded at two.

All of that, though, is in the past and after three months without taking the field as a group, Mexico is ready to face a Denmark team that cruised past Canada 4-0 on Saturday.

In Arizona, de la Torre will use a completely domestic-based roster led by veteran defenders Carlos Salcido of Tigres (105 caps) and Club America's Francisco Javier Rodriguez (75 caps). The European-based players - Andres Guardado (Valencia), Javier Hernandez (Manchester United), Hector Moreno (Espanyol) and Giovani Dos Santos (Mallorca) - will arrive following next weekend's league games in England and Spain.

Of the 21 players currently in camp, 14 are 25-years-old or younger. The fact that Mexico possesses so much talent at such young ages is enthusiastically acknowledged by de la Torre.

"Of course, there are those with rich capacity in these generations, so we will have competition as I mentioned and many of them will be able to appear in one or other of them (upcoming games)," said de la Torre. "For now, it is a great chance in this preparation match for them to be seen, some may be active, some not, but it is in us, in how we visualize the players."

Despite the fact that he has called in 25 players in total for the friendly and the qualifier, de la Torre is keeping the door open for even more to enter or re-enter the national team picture.

"I will never close the door to any player, they open or close them according to their performances and skills, I mentioned that the first time we were here together," added de la Torre, 47, who coached Guadalajara and Toluca to Mexican league titles. "There may be other players who have not been invited to the game against Jamaica, that's something that we reserve to make decisions according to what we think is appropriate."

With two Gold Cup championships, a FIFA U-17 World Cup title and an Olympic gold medal all attained in the last four years, fans of Mexican football have seen their national selections reach heights about which most countries can only dream.

That trek of success resumes on Wednesday against Denmark. It could be the continuation of something great.