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Jaime Lozano will take the reins of the Mexico national team in the Gold Cup as interim coach after the dismissal of a Diego Cocca who will be remembered only for his very brief stint in the national team. Lozano had recently run saying that there were few options for Mexican coaches to take the reins of the national team.
Known as “Jimmy” Jaime Lozano comes from a family of actors, son of Jaime Lozano and Ana Bertha Espín., who have participated in outstanding dramatic productions on television networks in Mexico. Despite possessing that artistic vein, Jimmy Lozano wanted to dedicate himself to soccer and debuted in 1998 wearing the colors of the Pumasteam from which he retired in 2013.
Jaime Lozano seeks to vindicate the Mexican selectors
Jaime Lozano will seek to vindicate the prestige of Mexican coaches from the Tri benchHowever, he will have an interim role, although you never know and we will have to see how he does in the Gold Cup and if he stands out so much that the federation decides to leave him, for now that is not the plan, but it is not ruled out either.
The departure of Diego Cocca has been a surprise, not because of how it works, but for the time being and because of the lack of opportunities received as Gerardo Martino did at the time. Now Lozano in the Gold Cup will have the opportunity to show that a Mexican coach is what is best for El Tri since it is a hypothesis that has been repeated on too many occasions.
Jaime Lozano’s trajectory
Jaime Lozano as a player wore the colors of Pumas, Atlético Celaya, Tigres UANL, Monarcas de Morelia and Cruz Azulwith the Pumas he obtained a two-time championship and was a participant in that historic triumph of the eleventh university against Real Madrid that gave the team the Santiago Bernabéu Trophy.
As a national team, Lozano played in the 2004 and 2007 Copa América, the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2005 Confederations Cup. In 2017 as a coach, he won the 2017 Mexican Super Cup with Qyerétaro FC and in 2020 he obtained the bronze medal with the Mexican National Team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
After the medal, he continued his career as Necaxa’s coach and today, despite being interim, he finds himself facing the greatest responsibility of his career, a career that he decided before that of an artist and that in the Gold Cup he will have to justify for the good of Mexican soccer.
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