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Very, but very few references in Mexican soccer have the stature of Hugo Sanchezand despite everything, the former Real Madrid star says his legacy as a footballer continues to be underappreciated in the Aztec nation.
The journalist of Real America News, Ricardo Lopez Juarez had an exclusive interview with him where he detailed about his feelings before the appointment of Diego Cocca as the new DT of the Mexican National Team.
“Who should be in that position is a Mexican and that is where I am disappointed by the fact that our leaders are not making the right decisions for the improvement and growth of Mexican soccer and that makes me uncomfortable. It bothers me that I’m not taking advantage of it, because I’m getting older and tomorrow when they want ‘hey, well, we haven’t even given Hugo Sánchez a chance to direct a World Cup, right?’ So now that there are no qualifying matches it’s a good time, because I feel like I could deliver; At the time I did it in 2007 when I was in the national team,” he said.
Sánchez spoke of statistics and recalled that, historically, no team has won the World Cup with a foreigner on the bench, thus reinforcing his “self-candidacy”.
“Now we carry, I don’t know if they are 4 or 5 coaches who are not Mexican and we did not achieve anything important, we are the same. So from someone from abroad to a Mexican… you have to include our people. Statistically speaking, I don’t know of any world champion team, to date, where a non-local team has won. All the countries that have won the World Cup have done so with local coaches, you have to follow that line”, he sentenced.
He recalled that in the last World Cups, all the coaches who have emerged champions have been from the backyard and for this reason he does not understand that the last selectors of Mexico have been foreigners, since for him it is a formula that has not borne fruit.
Notably Diego Cocca already had his debut on the Tri bench and achieved a hard-fought away victory against Suriname in the Concacaf Nations League, now awaits their second match where they will face Jamaica.
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