Chepo de la Torre was left out of Puebla

José Manuel de la Torre will not continue as coach of Puebla after the board of directors of the fringe team released on their social networks the official statement about the departure of the experienced coach who was questioned in this Thursday’s meeting about the team’s poor performance when heThe payroll was one of the most discreet of the Mexican soccer teams in the Apertura 2024 tournament.

This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, since at all times they stated that the 15th position in the table made the fans distance themselves from the team, to which the experienced coach argued that too much was done with so few resources after in previous tournaments the board did not care aging the squad and spending a lot of money on signings that were not successful.

However, when it came to numbers, the managers blamed Chepo for not being able to straighten the direction of the Strip. and that in the end the negative factors in his management outweighed the positive onesespecially because within the squad the environment was no longer adequate for the coach.

In the hours before the decision, The Opinion He was able to chat unofficially with the former Puebla coach and requested an interview to make arrangements with the team’s press department, without expecting that at the meeting This Thursday they would inform him that his project no longer had a future.

Even the experienced coach hinted that the meeting he would have with the board was to plan the hiring of some reinforcements who did not have such a high cost for the payroll, but in the end nothing could be finalized.

To make matters worse, since last night it began to circulate on social networks that the current analyst of the TUDN network, Rafael Puente del Río He was one of the candidates to take his position, as was the experienced José Luis Trejo, who in 2001 led Cruz Azul to runners-up in the Copa Libertadores, as well as some other coaches who are interested in leading a team with more doubts than certainties. .

Chepo’s numbers

During the 17 dates that the tournament lasted, Chepo de la Torre could only lead Puebla to four victories, two draws and 11 defeats, but among the victories they beat none other than América and Chivas, two of the so-called great teams of Mexican soccer, so it was expected that with a greater scope of the project things would improve.

But the Puebla board had other plans and they made him see that in this tournament the people distanced themselves a lot from the team and that the poor entries in the Cuauhtémoc stadium were a sign that the project was not walking on the right path. and that a change of direction was needed.

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