By Sergio Silva
09 Jun 2024, 16:34 PM EDT
It didn’t take long for the UANL Tigers to find the Uruguayan’s successor Robert Dante Siboldi on the bench. This Sunday the feline team confirmed an agreement with the Serbian Veljko Paunovic who in this way returns to the Liga MX where he was recently in charge of the Chivas del Guadalajara.
With a statement on their social networks, UANL Tigers They made official the incorporation of the European coach who, after his departure from the Sacred Flock after the Apertura 2023 tournament, had not returned to direct. Now he will do it with the team that beat him in the final of the Clausura 2023 tournament.
“The new coach arrives accompanied by three assistants with experience in Spain, England, the United States and Mexico. The Portuguese Nuno Miguel Gomes Bentes, the Spanish-Argentine Claudio David Arseno Pessuto and the South African-English Quinton Fortune”stated the letter from the Tigers.
According to the information disclosed by the university team itself, the new coaching staff headed by Veljko Paunovic He will be immediately joining the preseason that the team is carrying out in the Riviera Maya to take control of the team.
Veljko Paunovic, 46, has experience in the MLS where he was in charge of the Chicago Fire, in English soccer where he led the second division Reading FC and in the Liga MX where he was in charge of the Sacred Flock for a full season. .
The return of the Serbian coach to Mexican football comes after the surprising departure of Robert Dante Siboldi from the Tigres this week in a news story that was full of rumors surrounding the Uruguayan coach that he himself took it upon himself to deny.
How has Paunovic fared in Liga MX?
The Serbian technical director Veljko Paunovic, new coach of the UANL Tigres, during his first stage in the Liga MX arrived at the Chivas del Guadalajara for the Clausura 2023 tournament and in that semester managed to take the Rebaño Sagrado to the final, in the that ended up falling precisely before the feline painting.
In the Apertura 2023 tournament, Paunovic was able to lead the team to the postseason again, this time falling in the quarterfinals at the hands of the UNAM Pumas. That elimination ended up forcing the Serbian to leave the Chivas bench.
Between the two semesters with the Guadalajara team, the coach left a record of 21 wins, seven losses and three draws after having coached 42 games. Now, with the Tigres, Veljko Paunovic will seek to take the step he needed to be crowned Liga MX champion.
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