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Last Monday the bombshell news was the dismissal of Diego Cocca as selector of Mexico after 129 days and only seven games in office. already with Jaime Lozano announced as interim DT, the striker Raul Jimenez He gave his opinion on the situation and denied that the Argentine strategist is guilty of his departure.
In an interview for the chain TUDNthe striker pointed out that beyond the poor results, the problem was that from the Mexican Football Federation there was no patience with the project, analysis that the same cocca outlined hours after his dismissal in a dialogue with TV Azteca.
“It is something surprising for everyone. I think it took a little patience. It’s not always just the coach’s fault, but hey, it’s the decisions that are made, ”he specified.
In the forceful announcement where the commissioner Juan Carlos Rodriguez reported on the departure of the player and his entire coaching staff, the arrival of Jaime Lozano as interim DT for the Gold Cup. The attacker sent affectionate words to the entire team in this new cycle.
“Now support the one who is on duty, Jimmy, wish him, his coaching staff and the players all the success in the world in this gold Cupthat is a very good gold Cup and they do very well,” he said.
“As a coach, well, I’ve never had it, but he’s done very well in the national team, in the teams he’s been in and was in third Olympic place in tokyo. I think he’s on the right track. He is doing very well and for a reason they named him interim ”, he said.
Conversation with Diego Cocca
Jimenez He also took the opportunity to value a season in which he had almost no participation due to injuries. The attacker came to Qatar World Cup 2022 just enough, but could not play the minutes that were initially expected.
After the departure of Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, Raul talked with Diego Cocca and expressed his desire to take advantage of the trip to San Diego to perform a surgical intervention. “Later, before the game against Guatemala, I spoke with Diego and told him: ‘hey, I think I can play you this game, but we’ll take advantage of the next game that we’re going to San Diego, it’s two hours from Los Angeles and there’s a doctor there. that he can operate on me, he can help me with this’, and it was done”, he recounted.
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