The Argentine Diego Cocca and the promise to the champion Atlas

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For: EFE Updated 25 May 2022, : pm EDT

The promise of the Argentine Diego Cocca, coach of the champion Atlas, finalist of the Clausura tournament 2022 of Mexican soccer, it is not to allow your team to suffer so many years without winning a championship.

“We are privileged to have lived that final, that championship; we want it to continue happening and not be every 80 years, may it continue to happen many times. So we will have no rest, no pause, no peace to repeat what we live“, harangued the coach after the Apertura title 2021 that broke an Atlas drought of 70 years without being League monarch.

When Diego Cocca came to the Atlas bench in the Apertura 2020 the dust in the showcases of the institution barely let see the brilliance of the League title obtained in the season 1950-51 next to blank photos and black with worn tips.

Two tournaments later, in the Apertura 2021, the Argentine led his team to beat León in the final to give his squad the second league in its history, a feat that it will seek to repeat in this Clausura cu I will face Pachuca in the final starting Thursday.

“There is much more to do for this team to continue growing and I am privileged to be in this place and do my bit to make it happen” , he confessed after getting the pass to his second instance for the consecutive championship.

In his career as a technician, Cocca has become accustomed to overcoming seemingly impossible missions.

THE BEST DT IN THE LEAGUE?
Diego Cocca leads the Atlas team to the league title for the second time in a row.

Coaches like Hugo Sánchez with Pumas and Gustavo Matosas with León, already they have succeeded. pic.twitter.com/CXSahPqeEZ

— Juan Carlos Díaz M. (@jcdiazmurrieta) May 25, 2022

In 2013 led a modest Defense and Justice, from National B, to promotion to the honor division for the first time in the team’s journey through Argentine football.

A year later it went bankrupt 13 inglorious years for the Racing Club de Avellaneda that he could give, at that time, the eighth Olympic lap of its history in a tournament in which it reached add 13 consecutive wins.

Now from this Thursday he will seek to turn the Atlas into the third Mexican league team to get a bicampe onato

in this century, something they have already achieved Pumas UNAM and León.

Diego Cocca, who played for the Atlas between 1999 and 2001, acknowledged his frustration at not having been able to be a champion with the team during his time as a footballer.

“The club that as a player opened the doors for me in Mexico was the Atlas and that is why I have so much love for this team and the desire to repay him for the opportunity he gave me in those years “, he declared in his presentation as team coach.

Of that player who began his career at River Plate, a team with which he won his only championship as a footballer, the way of seeing this sport does not change, it is the formula that has been applied to seek the bi-championship with the Atlas.

“For me, soccer comes first, soccer comes second and soccer comes third, only so you can live in this race. Football is a way of being, a way of feeling, that’s how I see it”.

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