Years have passed Ricardo Tuca ‘Ferretti, this Monday he turns 67, but this doesn’t mean he forgets one in particular, when he turned 12 years old; and it is that the day after that birthday the young Ricardo ventured onto the sports field, which I would go for leaving a modest job that helped him resolve at that point.
I helped in a wood factory, a marble factory, unloaded marble, then I graduated as a varnish in a wood factoryAfter unloading marble, I became a marble seller and it was pretty cool to live with these people, ”Tuca recalled about his childhood and adolescence when he was congratulated by the press on his birthday of his life at a press conference a few years ago .
Trainer most winner of Mexican football titlesAt the age of seven, he never thought he would become a star as a player and a successful coach.
So it all started the day after his 12th birthday. “The 22nd fell on a Sunday and Monday the 23rd I started training in the 13-year-olds category, I was 12
“ Since I was very young, my dad, who loved it, has trained and prepared me, and at the age of 12 he took me to a test for a category 13 (with Botafogo) and thank god I spent it, it trained me and to this day I keep going without stopping, ”said the helmsman of Tigers
“I remember this date a lot because I received my first football boots“I had them walking on the floor of my mom’s house for almost all week who demanded everything, but I took off my shoe to go to the workout,” he added.
As a player
Bigotón made his debut in 1971 as a professional player with Botafogo and continued his career with the clubs Vasco da Gama (1975-1976), Bonsucesso FC Brasil (1976-1977), Atlas (1977-1978), Pumas (1978-1985), Club Deportivo Coyotes Neza (1985–86), Monterrey (1986–87), Pumas (1987–88), Toluca (1988–1990), and Pumas (1990–91).
As a coach
The UNAM opened for him in 1991, then he left the post in 1996 to go to the Chivas bank (1996-2000), then Tigres (2000-2003), Toluca (2003-2004), Morelia (2005) , Tigres (2006), Pumas (2006–2010) and Tigres (2010– so far).