‘Piojo’ Herrera admitted that he was surprised by his abrupt departure from Las Águilas and the fact that he had no contact with the owner of the team.
MEXICO – Miguel Herrera broke the silence 48 hours after Televisa’s high command will make the decision to fire him at Club América.
In an extensive conversation with ESPNThe former Eagles coach acknowledges today that certain situations outside of football could lead the club’s owner, Emilio Azcárraga, and his director of the football committee, Joaquín Balcárcel, to make the decision to fire him, while also defending performance and ensures that what happened during halftime of the Concachampions Semi-Final against LAFC was an excuse to stop their trial.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.
“It seems to me that was a pretext, I can’t say it was the extracancha, because frankly what happened on Saturday was nothing at all; I was talking to their technician (Bob Bradley) when the assistant (Ante Razov) approached, he also called out I don’t know what many things and I said ‘calm down, I’m going to calm people down’. I was very calm, I calmed down my people, I took people and all of a sudden he pulled my hair and you get a little out of control, but I didn’t respond, I said ‘I can’t be wrong’. Maybe at other times I would have turned around and hit him or done something, but it’s decisions that take place in two seconds, we leave and when I get back to the field they tell me I’m being expelled from school ”, the ‘Piojo’ explained in interview with video call.
“(Razov) He reaches out his hand as if to walk away and my eye itches, but at the end of the day, I repeat, I went to the locker room, aware of what we had to do in the match to try and hit the target that was to continue with the match Mark for and take advantage of that extra man we had then it seems to me that looking for that situation is a pretext, because at the end of the day I’m like: I I am passionate, I am not going to change overnight and I am not going to change because that reflects my teams, the passion and determination that I have always shown ”.
But the same Herrera admits that he sometimes needs to control his mood better.
“That I have to be measured, yes, and today between that and what grasping are the circumstances that arise. I remain with the gratitude I have for this attitude, with the love that everyone has given me, From the first day I landed in late 2011 (in America) until today we are in late 2020, all the time I spent at this club I continue to have that affection, that determination that people gave me and people demanded of me, from the club and the fans, I am only grateful and try to work and do my best, wherever my projects take me ”.
The 52-year-old quarterback admitted that extrajudicial situations have cost him a lot in his career, such as leaving the Mexican national team in 2015 after an argument with communicator Christian Martinoli, or now with America, but he has always paid for everything.
“Yes, there are things that I have done that clearly harm my job, especially after 2015, they are without a doubt circumstances that you should considerAt the end of the day you are the leader of a team and you have to demonstrate one thing, when you are in the institution you have to be a measured and thinking person, but sometimes the fever wins you, sometimes the desire to do your best wins to do you possible, but I am passionate too, and if I am not passionate, I am not, ”he said.
“The only circumstance was that of 2015 (as DT del Tri), which brought significant personal impediment and exploded in my head, but after that there was never a ruse, there was never a mess. Dimes and diretes, loss of concentration, yes; that he insulted a referee (Marco Antonio Ortiz) when he left the stadium, who also stupidly told the media that they asked me when I should have followed, and that’s the fever that suddenly happens to hurt you, ” he added .
“But from each of them I paid my consequences, they didn’t stay in debt either, they can’t say ‘ah, they’re forgiven’, they never forgiven me! They charged me my debts, that nonsense” I did, I paid them, I have no debts, at no point did they give me a second chance, they were all punctual and paid, with fines or with these circumstances of being unemployed because I was looking for that pretext So unfortunately this is my race, I keep thinking I need to be measured a lot more, thinking about what the team needs on the field and they don’t need a leader to do that.