By Edgardo Avelar
17 Oct 2024, 00:07 AM EDT
Faced with the version circulating in some media that Ricardo La Volpe had recognized that Cuauhtémoc Blanco was the player that the Mexican team was missing in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, The Opinion He consulted with the former Tricolor coach, who clarified that his position is very different.
The point of view in the first instance of La Volpe was published in the book “Our Cuauh”, where he explained that if he had known that the naturalized Mexican Guillermo Franco was not going to arrive in full form, perhaps he would have thought of Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
In this regard, Ricardo Antonio highlighted: “It didn’t matter whether I regretted it or not. We missed the goal and, later, in the round of 16, Argentina scored that incredible 30-meter goal,” explained the Argentine coach, but at no time did he assure that Blanco was in his plans to occupy a place on the final list.
Obviously it is controversial, it has generated endless discussions and talks in the last 18 years due to the football moment that the former América striker was going through and that a year before he had won the League tournament in the Clausura 2005 championship, since The majority of Mexican fans consider that “Cuau” was the missing piece to advance to a leading position in the World Cup that year..
The former Argentine coach and now an analyst for the TUDN network explained to this publishing house: “Not at all and I clarify, my player was Guille Franco, but he did not recover and did not play. I said that if I had known that Guille couldn’t play, Blanco could have come in.”
Going back to the moment of the list that was announced for the World Cup at the facilities of the High Performance Center of the Mexican Football Federation, La Volpe hit the hornet’s nest of controversy and to this day that controversy remains valid regarding how much Cuauhtémoc Blanco’s call would have helped.
Blanco’s absence set the tone to point out that the former Tricolor strategist would have preferred Rafael García because of the family relationship that unites thembut the reality is that both players did not occupy the same position on the field and the only variation would have been due to the place occupied by Franco who arrived at the 2006 World Cup suffering from an injury caused at Villarreal in Spain.
Even Blanco’s absence has led to an increase in the differences between the two that began during the coach’s stay at the Águilas del América in the 1996 season, where he could only direct five games when he was fired after a 5-0 defeat against Chivas. .
From that moment on, a public dispute arose. where Blanco came to face La Volpe when he led Atlas with celebrations as a mockery that accumulated details until 2006 and where in the end he decided not to take it to the World Cup.
Under this scenario, the controversy will remain valid for a long time to come, although not long ago at the induction ceremony to the Mexican Soccer Hall of Fame both lowered the intensity of their controversy.
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