By Edgardo Avelar
Cuauhtémoc Blanco Former América figure blamed former Águilas forward and now TV Azteca commentator Luis García, for being responsible for ending the spectacular squad led by Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker overnight. that impacted everyone in the 90s in Mexican soccer.
In statements to David Faitelson and Guillermo Schultz, On the Notisports channel on the YouTube platform, the still governor of Morelos highlighted that there were several factors for that spectacular America of the 90s to disappear from one day to the next.
“For me, the team of the 80s and that of François Oman Biyik and Kalusha Bwalya, “They are the best in history, nothing more than someone came and destroyed him and that was Luis García, Rana’s body arrived and they put him there because he came from Real Sociedad,” said Cuauhtémoc, without going into the reasons why Luis García was one of the factors in why that team finished.
In this sense, Blanco added that Leo Beenhakker He quarreled with the then president of the team Emilio Díaz Barroso and they released two versions of that situation that made the European coach resign from the technical direction of the American team.
In the first version it established that: “They say that they wanted to impose players on him when the Cameroonian Jean-Claude Pagal arrived and they wanted to remove Joaquín Del, Olmo and Beenhakker said no,” Blanco said, considering that the reality of the matter was because América owed money to Joaquín Del Olmo.
In that sense, He added that they did not want to pay him, so they used the arrival of the Cameroonian player Jean-Claude Pagal as a pretext. so that he would come to play in his place and which the one who was also a strategist for the Netherlands and Real Madrid did not agree with.
Blanco also announced the second version and it is the one that has been officially handled in a discussion between the coach and the president of the team at the time Emilio Diez Barroso and where it is stated that Emilio Díaz Barroso summoned the Dutch coach to a meeting and he did not want to stop playing his round of golf on his day of rest, asking the president to come to his house, which led to the dismissal of the coach. controversial European coach and the end of that spectacular squad.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, considered one of the greatest figures of America in its historyhighlighted that that America of the 1990s with Leo Beenhakker was equally spectacular in the 1980s led by Carlos Reinoso with players like Argentine goalkeeper Héctor Miguel Zelada, Mario Trejo, Armando Manzo, Alfredo Tena, Vinicio Bravo in defense, as well as Cristóbal Ortega, Juan Antonio Luna, the Brazilian Batata in midfield, while up front the Argentine Norberto Outes along with his compatriot Alberto Echaniz.
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