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▲ The Tuzo Érick Sánchez has offers in Mexican soccer, but his priority is to make the leap to Europe. Photo AFP

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It was never so valid That saying that to win you have to overcome even arbitration. The Pachuca youth team not only competed against teams of established players, both in the Liga Mx and in the Concachampionsbut also had to play an additional match due to the whim or inefficiency of the whistlers and the (now so soon) discredited VAR, a system that against Pumas unduly annulled a goal in the game of play-in. The Tuzo team – the only one that stood up for Mexican soccer in the Concacaf Champions Cup – lived a couple of intense weeks until they were almost out of breath as they faced two tournaments in parallel.

In Mexican soccer, if you are not among the spoiled ones, you can expect all kinds of obstacles, but the most incredible thing is that they put them on the only team that committed itself to the task of releasing soccer players as a result of its basic forces, while the The rest is spent groping and importing madly. Many times they bring percussion bullets that contribute nothing… At one time it was shocking and even caused hilarity that the Hidalgo board called itself The Mexico team; Today that nickname fits him better, it is not even necessary to go to the Tuzo team to sympathize with his policy of supporting national talent. Not only does the arbitration cloud the picture, it also affects a twisted schedule that made the team led by Érick Sánchez burn its legs with so many matches, leaving barely the minimum recovery time required by FIFA… If the federations were not so clueless, one might think that They are perversely Machiavellian, given the power struggles between Grupo Pachuca, Televisa, Orlegi and others… The Liga Mx has a couple of weeks left to meet the champion, which the Tuzo team already has well established – against all odds – is the end of the Concachampionson June 1 against the Columbus Crew, of the American league.

However, it was a matter of Tuzo coach Guillermo Almada daring to protest the calendar and Érick Sánchez making an insinuation regarding the bad refereeing on social networks so that the sacrosanct Disciplinary Commission dealt them a blow. Either they stay quiet or there will be more sanctions for questioning the honorability of the respectable Mexican Football Federation… In other words, they are grotesquely wrong, but no affiliate should criticize or raise questions publicly; nothing that exhibits them, the law is to accept the blow and bow your head. The striking thing about the case is that once again the Mexican teams with the most powerful economy, with Monterrey at the helm, are not capable of exalting the Liga Mx with a worthy performance. Both Rayados, Tigres and América are great only on the domestic level. The yellow ones lie at the top as the biggest winners, but they do not shine in other latitudes; Those from Nuevo León, in turn, are overpaid, and with the parsimony typical of those who have a full belly and pockets, they are ready without embarrassment towards one more northern classic in search of a ticket to the semifinals of the home contest. It’s what they have enough for.

As a curious joke, it turns out that FIFA sanctioned the Rayados, Juárez and Tijuana teams. It was an error by the governing body of world football, which prevented Monterrey from making signings for more than a year. It would have been excellent! The dream of many young players! A measure like that would perhaps have forced them to turn their gaze towards their quarry… Such a situation caused more alarm and distress in the striped board than the same defeat against Columbus (5-2), or that 3-0 that the Philadelphia Union dealt them in the Leagues Cup. The soul of the body… Everything was a mega scare.

César Luis Menotti, the strategist with a quixotic figure who changed the face of Mexican soccer, died, starting with him there was a before and after. Emilio Maurer, being president of the FMF, insisted on bringing him as a coach of the Tri (1991-92) convinced that it was going to be transcendental. Off the field he also taught by showing his loyalty, because when Maurer aroused the wrath of Televisa by trying to take away his control over the national team and was removed from office and put in prison, Menotti did not hesitate to pack his bags… National football did not He had received an injection of vitality, of renewal of techniques and tactics since the 60s, when Renato Cesarini arrived at Pumas.

2024-05-06 08:40:48
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