Friday, November 15

Igor Lichnovsky will not play the Apertura 2023 with Tigres because the team does not have more places for foreigners

Igor Lichnovsky will not play the Apertura 2023 with Tigres because the team does not have more places for foreigners

Photo: Arturo Hernandez / Imago7

Gregory Torres

Tigres de la UANL sold Yeferson Soteldo, a situation that helped, but did not alleviate all the problems the team has with players not born in Mexico. As a result, Igor Lichnovsky will not be registered for the 2023 Opening of Liga MXAntonio Sancho reported this Tuesday.

“By regulation we have to register 9 players not trained in Mexico and the one who will not be registered is Igorwe have a full squad and we continue the same”, Sancho explained to the media.

André-pierre Gignac (l) and Igor Lichnovsky of Tigres celebrate a goal scored against Pumas.
André-pierre Gignac (I) and Igor Lichnovsky (R) from Tigres celebrate a goal scored against the Pumas de la UNAM: Photo: Antonio Ojeda – EFE.

The sports director of Tigres de UANL thus announced that the Chilean will not be part of the squad that Robert Dante Siboldi will use for the Apertura 2023a very hard blow for the defender, although it must be borne in mind that it was already known that the coaching staff thought that his loss would not be of great importance at the defensive level.

It must be taken into account that in the last hours also there has been talk about the departure of Nicolás ‘Diente’ López, Uruguayan forward who is also on the off-ramp to leave the university team for the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer.

Numbers of Igor Lichnovsky in Tigres de la UANL

Lichnovksy arrived at Tigres as a reinforcement for the Clausura 2022for which the 29-year-old player was active in 52 games in all competitions and scored only one goal, in addition to winning the title of the last Clausura 2023 of Liga MX.

In addition, it must be borne in mind that The Monterrey team was his third team in the MX League after passing through Necaxa and Cruz Azul.

Igor Lichnovsky, during the return match of the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League Semifinals, between Esmeraldas del León and Tigres from UANL, held at the León stadium. Photo: Imago7/ Luis Cano

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