With a retired star in one goal, a striker in another and coach Ricardo Lavolpe in midfield, Mexico's training session Sunday was more of a pickup game in the park than a serious preparation for the World Cup.

But even with their opener against Iran only a week away, and with Lavolpe still tweaking the team's lineup and formation, the players didn't seem to mind.

"One week is enough," midfielder Luis Perez said through a translator. "We have two months of practice, and against Iran we have the idea."

Under cool, mostly cloudy skies, Lavolpe ran El Tri through a 90-minute session of light jogging, a few shooting and heading drills and a loose intrasquad scrimmage.

The 30-minute game showed ¡ª if nothing else ¡ª that former national team goalkeeper Jorge Campos, now an assistant and potential successor to Lavolpe after this World Cup, still has a few athletic saves left in him.

Backup forward Jesus Arrellano was the other keeper, and also made several saves that drew cheers from the crowd of about 1,000.

Lavolpe didn't get near the ball much, but did start one scoring sequence with a long pass down the left side. He left without speaking to reporters.

Mexico, which arrived in its World Cup host city of Gottingen on Friday night, was coming off a 3-0 scrimmage win Saturday night over a regional team. The game turned physical at times, but El Tri got out with no injuries.

"The whole team is relaxed, very relaxed," forward Guillermo Franco, who came out in the second half after taking several hard challenges on high balls in the penalty area, said through a translator. "The doctor said nobody is injured. Everybody's OK now."