Erendira Palma Hernández
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, May 9, 2024, p. a10
The crisis of Mexican coaches in the First Division worsened in such a way that for the first time there is no national technical director in the league. While the teams seem to only look at foreign strategists, the tricolors demonstrate their ability in alternate tournaments such as the Liga Expansión Mx, where Alfonso Sosa, who won three titles in the defunct Ascenso Mx, will play another final.
Some clubs are results-oriented, the problem is when business is privileged over sports, said José Guadalupe Teacher Cruz, who had his last opportunity in the Liga Mx three years ago with Necaxa.
The issue of representation has grown a lot, soccer is a business, but it is still a sport and must be respected in this way, especially for those who pay to watch it. There are teams that have official representatives; I have never dealt with one, sometimes they told me that it was a disadvantage, but it had worked for me until now when it took me a while to return to the First Division, he added. The alerts about the lack of opportunities for national coaches had already been raised since the last tournament, when only Ricardo Carbajal entered the league with Puebla. In fact, of the four tricolors who started this season at the head of a club, only two finished the campaign, while Eduardo Fentanes was the only one to get close to the quarterfinals when he played the play-in.
That is why we must recognize the work of Fentanes, who despite having a modest payroll had a great tournament with Necaxa. Liguilla teams like América, Cruz Azul or Toluca have greater investment and possibilities of advancing, probably the managers or representation people have been very involved in bringing in foreign technicians, he pointed out. Teacher Cruz.
The strategist explained that the Mexican coach is often described as obsolete just for not using the current terminology of Spain, when in essence the football concepts are the same.
It is not a matter of capacity
It is not a matter of capabilities. In the Liga Expansión Mx we now see very good work, like what Mario García did with Atlante, and now Alfonso Sosa (UdeG) who is going for another final; None of them have been given justice, he lamented.
The absence of Mexican coaches in the league not only concerns the clubs, it can even harm the national team.
In a brief analysis, Cruz considered that this problem led to the poor results obtained in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, as well as having lost the hierarchy in Concacaf.
All these results have a meaning, not only for the coaches, but for Mexican soccer itself that must be corrected to recover a good level in national teams.
2024-05-09 10:25:59
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