Eduardo Hernández Castro Aug 26, 2023, 4:32 p.m. Reading: 6 min.
How was the breakup of the Mexican National Team with its former sponsor?
Carlos Lazo, CEO of Yox Holdings, explained the reason why the Aztec representative changed sponsors.
Carlos Lazo, businessman who sponsored the Mexican team, talks about the break with Ademeba and Omar Quintero
Omar Quintero and Gabriel Girón escorted the businessman Carlos Lazo At the press conference after the victory of Mexico about Uruguay that gave the classification to the FIBA World Cup 2023. At that time, each one represented the areas that worked together to return Mexican basketball to a World Cup after nine years, but the project broke up a few months before the World Cup debut and revives the struggles, conflicts within national basketball.
“I want to congratulate my players, the entire coaching staff, all the people who have been supporting us, the businessman Carlos Lazo Since the first day I took on this project, he has been by our side, Dr. Modesto Robledo, who trusted me…”, he said emotionally and on the verge of tears. Omar Quinterocoach of the mexican basketball team that this Friday debuted with a 71-91 defeat against Montenegro in the FIBA World Cup 2023.
The way of Mexico started with a plea for help from Omar Quintero a Carlos Lazothe businessman who contributed 12 million pesos to the Mexican team to face the qualifier, but two months ago he broke relations with the Mexican coach and the Mexican Basketball Sports Association (Ademeba), by not reaching an agreement to continue with the model where the employer contributed and managed the economic resources of the team, without the intervention of the association.
Omar Quintero, Carlos Lazo and players from the Mexican team celebrate the pass to the FIBA World Cup 2023.AP
“We did not give a single peso to the Ademeba, that was the agreement. I decided not to pay them and if they did not allow me to handle all the logistics of the flights, trips, lodging, of the entire organization so that the team had the best conditions; It was what we did for 15 months,” he says. Carlos LazoCEO of Yox Holdings, in an interview for ESPN.
Carlos Lazo knowledge a Omar Quintero in Libertadores de Querétaro, when the businessman acquired 50% of the franchise of the National Professional Basketball League (LNBP). By the time the coach arrived at the Mexican team basketball, they talked about the needs of the players, how to pay past due wages, lodging, transfers to face the qualifier.
The first negotiation between Ademeba and the employer was to pay the salary of Omar Quinterothrough sponsorship. “The Ademeba he accepted because he had no other sponsor. Nobody was going to get involved in a qualifying process, it’s a ‘flip’, you have to work very hard in the sports part and join in the operations, don’t miss a single peso”, he adds Carlos Lazo.
The mexican basketball team began the second round of the qualifier with a loss to Colombia. During that window of games Juan Toscano, at that time NBA champion with Golden State, did not travel for the second commitment in Brazil and due to disagreements with Omar Quintero and the Ademeba He did not return to wear the national team shirt.
The conflict
Mexico qualified to FIBA World Cup 2023 in third place in Group F, behind only the United States and Puerto Rico, achieving only its second participation for the world Cup.
The break between Carlos Lazo con Omar Quintero and the Ademeba It came after getting the ticket to the World Cup, when the coach signed a three-year contract extension and the association asked the businessman to pay for the agreement. The version inside the Ademeba maintains that there was no arrangement when the businessman requested that new associations be made in each state, with the aim of calling a new election in the organization, a situation that they perceived as interference, sources commented to ESPN.
“That was where the relationship broke down completely, because I couldn’t pay the salary to Omar Quintero and they preferred to close the doors on me”, he mentions Carlos Lazo.
The project that led to Mexico al FIBA World Cup 2023 it was broken, there were a couple more meetings where they tried to extend the agreement, with the same conditions with which they started; However, Carlos Lazo argued that he could not legally continue paying the contract for Omar Quinteroand the relationship came to an end.
The businessman questions whether the Mexican team will have support after FIBA World Cup 2023For this reason, in April he announced the creation of the Mexican Basketball Council (CBM), an organization that will seek to support athletes, but without any kind of relationship with Ademeba.
“The CBM needs a more solid structure, starting with small states and building the structure and then knocking on the door of the government and the international organization so that they turn to see us, it is a 3 or 5-year project (…) Let’s go to continue supporting basketball, it is a legacy that we are going to leave, it is going to cost me more time, we are going to put new phases, new projects and associations to do more for basketball”, he points out Carlos Lazo.
The relationship of Carlos Lazo con Omar Quintero It was also broken and the last time they had communication was in the virtual meeting where they tried to negotiate the continuity of the businessman in the basketball team project.
“Professionally, I believed in him a lot, I helped him a lot financially and I gave him everything he asked for (…) Personally, I don’t like rude people, I held him in high esteem,” says the businessman.
The project that led to Mexican team al FIBA World Cup 2023 had its highest moment that night of February 26 at the Antel Arena in Montevideo, Uruguay, where they won the ticket to the world Cup and players, coach and businessman did not skimp on praise between them. After the World Cup ticket, Mexico lost to Montenegro at the FIBA World Cup 2023.
Who is Carlos Lazo?
Carlos Lazo He is a Venezuelan businessman who has lived in Mexico for 16 years. He is the founder and CEO of Yox Holdings, a conglomerate of companies involved in betting and sports teams, real estate, investment and financial advisory lines.
In 2021, the businessman began to acquire equipment, through Xoy Capital, first it was 50% of Libertadores de Querétaro of the LNBP; then Generales de Durango of the Mexican Baseball League and two newly created franchises, Rojos de CDMX of the American Soccer League and Chihuahua FC of the Mexican Premier League.
2023-08-26 19:46:56
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