The former Toluca attacker said he admires the Tigres attacker, but believes that only time will put him in the place he deserves in history.
Former Toluca attacker José Saturnino Cardozo pointed out that André Pierre Gignac, a Tigres attacker, is still “missing” from being in the Olympus of the best network breakers to come to Mexico.despite the fact that he admires it, and only time will put him in the place he deserves.
“Gignac is having a good time and he needs a little more. To be with (Carlos) Hermosillo, lack. He is a player that I admire very much, but time will tell. You can see from his face that he does not like to lose and is a leader, ”said the Paraguayan at the presentation of his book ‘Cardozo, El Príncipe del Gol’.
“You have to applaud him and thank him for participating in Mexican football. Then time will tell. I had 10 wonderful years in Mexico, ”added the South American in the presence of ex-soccer bags and journalists from Mexico and Paraguay.
Cardozo, who is the fourth highest scorer in Liga MX history with 249 goals and the second best foreignerOnly behind Evanivaldo Castro ‘Cabinho’, who took 312 notes and is the best striker in all of the league’s history, he accepted that he never intended to set records or that the current footballer is trying to break what he did.
“I didn’t have in mind how many goals I had in Toluca. I enjoyed the goals. Not that I scored two goals and now I’m relaxing. I like this profession, I like training and correcting mistakes. My teammates said that.” it wouldn’t be a goal and I repeated and repeated. You have to train and I know that the goals I made were not made to break the record and that everyone is making their career “, he stressed.
He even expressed that currently there are more facilities to act as a professional, as the clubs improved a lot in the infrastructure.
“The player has more facilities today. Before it was more difficult. The infrastructure of the clubs makes your job easier. In the past you had to be focused for a center and now the grass is a carpet. I dare to give you advice because this is easy for us. You don’t play football just because of talent ”.
For his part, Francisco Suinaga, president of the Toluca club, recalled that not long ago they signed an attacker to whom they wanted to give the ‘9’ jacket, but he did not accept it. because he knew what it meant to have the number that Cardozo used.
“When a player arrived at your position I didn’t say the name, when we saw the numbers he said the ‘9’ wasn’t because he weighed a lot and wouldn’t perform,” the manager said with a laugh. .