What is Cruz Azul losing by not hiring Hugo Sánchez as technical director? We show you what the Mexican strategist would have contributed to La Maquina
Cruz Azul hired the Peruvian coach Juan Reynoso around the Guard1anes 2021 instead of Mexican Hugo Sanchez, who had arranged practically everything to reach La Maquina, but the negotiations broke up in less than 24 hours.
Reynoso’s arrival piques heavenly fans for the good work he did with Puebla over the past semester, as well as for his past in cement, but Cruz Azul is losing a lot by not specifying that Hugo is being hired.
For example, Sánchez is one of two technicians to be crowned two-time Mexican soccer champion notable for being the first to make it with the Pumas squad in 2004. In that year’s Clausura tournament, the felines defeated Chivas in a thrilling final that was replaced in a penalty shootout and in the Apertura tournament, they defeated Rayados in the match. for the title. The two-time championship that Pumas achieved was largely due to the extraordinary winning mentality that ‘Hugol’ possesses, which would have been good for a team like Cruz Azul who have not been champions of Liga MX for over 20 years and in Guard1anes 2020 suffered a historic humiliation when they were eliminated in the semi-finals by Pumas despite reaching the second leg with a 4-0 lead.
On the other hand, The Machine misses the greatest Mexican footballer of all time on the bench and who could have motivated today’s Cruz Azul players just by his presence. The ‘Macho’ garnered a brilliant career in the Old Continent, consolidating himself as one of the best scorers in Real Madrid history and his achievements are still admired by many Mexican and foreign players.
Last, The Cementers also missed Hugo’s “show” on the bench, throwing his jacket in the middle of the game and his snappy statements after the games.
On why his arrival was not given to Cruz Azul’s technical leadership, Hugo Sánchez, analyst of ESPN, mentioned in the program Spicy football that the Directive changed the proposal submitted to him.
“They offered me a year, I didn’t ask for more, I said that was enough to become a champion. We were just waiting for the plane tickets, we stopped for a day and on December 31, Jaime Ordiales called me, because everything was going backwards, because there was a meeting where the economic situation wasn’t enough for what he asked, but if he accepted 50 percent , he could come, ”he said.