The Chivas failed to have another European coach when Jose Luis Higuera It was part of the rojiblanca directive. Moreover, he acknowledged that himself He had it closed and in the end the strategist decided not to come to Guadalajara even though the negotiations took a year.
“I’ll tell you one day. It was closed (the European coach), I think It was my most interesting negotiation in the whole period that I was in Chivas“I learned a lot and today he is a good friend, I have made a close friendship with him,” he told Mediotiempo.
“We fell in love with him, It took us a year to visit him, make him fall in love with what Chiva isyes, but yes, someone who had tied up accepted it, because I had to make some things say no ”.
Who were the European DTs that could come out of Chivas?
Higuera remembered talking to several, including Frank Rijkaard y Ronald Koeman, and three others with whom there were more approaches. He considered one of those mysterious as Top, although he ruled out that they were Marcelo Bielsa or Quique Setién.
“He really was a top coach. I was able to sit down with that world elite man, historically, who told us no jokeHe really liked the gist of what we told him about Chivas, to me he is above Bielsa and that coach is still active in the Premier League, ”he pointed out.
Then there were two techniciansOne of them was the one we got, today he shows that he is one of the best technical directors of the moment. The third of the comparison is now in Ligue 1 in France and we also got a positive number from him, nothing more than that there was no closure. He agrees to direct and when we were between one in France and the other who accepted, we preferred the other and thanked the one from France, ”he said.
‘We would have made the best Chivas’
Various sources assured that Higuera chatted in that 2019 Fernando Hierro and Julen Lopetegui, Spaniards who led the selection of that country, the first in the World Cup in Russia and the second during the entire journey leading up to that fair.
“I think we made another story that was just as powerful as with Matías. I think it would have been the best Chivas of the time Because of the type of coach he is with young people and Basic Forces, I think it would have been a Chivas that Jorge (Vergara) dreamed of with that valuable quarry. That technical director would have focused much more on us than Matías had managed to do “, Higuera said at half time
After failed negotiations to get someone out of Europe, the herd opted for it Thomas Boy, who always said he was hiring for four games, although the conditions led to longer stays.
Héctor Moreno was left to nothing by Chivas
In his career as a manager, José Luis Higuera was also very close to bringing in as reinforcement Chivas to Héctor Moreno, however with Javier Hernández, the answer was always negative
I had serious contacts with Héctor Moreno and we went deeper, but in some situations it didn’t happen. Javier (Hernández) no, he was always very clear, he has an incredible love for Chivas, but he is a focused player and his focus was on Europe at the time, ”he recalled.