Rafael Márquez Álvarez, captain of the Mexican national team, is denied entry to the United States after being accused and included in the list of individuals acting as fronts for drug trafficking, a record made by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury (OFAC).

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With the cancellation of his visa, the Michoacan is unable to play games in the United States until the case is resolved, although there are no scheduled matches for the senior national team in US territory for the remainder of 2017.

In the announcement, officials from OFAC showed public documents from property records in which Atlas' defender appears as the owner of businesses previously controlled by or in partnership with the alleged drug trafficker Raúl Flores Hernández or his children.

In addition to the visa cancellation, inclusion in this list, which is a civil, non-criminal procedure, will result in the freezing of all his accounts and properties in the United States, as well as a prohibition for any US company to engage in any kind of business or transactions with him or with the related companies that were included in the list released by the Department of the Treasury, which would imply a "financial death" for the player.