For “Tuca” Ferretti, two referees are the best players in America

Ricardo Ferrettiformer coach of the UANL Tigres, Chivas, Toluca, Pumas and Cruz Azul, among other Liga MX teams and current ESPN analyst, said on the Generación Fútbol program that the referees Adonai Escobedo and Marco Antonio “Gato” Ortiz are the best players in America.

The above arose after a discussion between the panelists where the broadcast’s owner Álvaro Morales downplayed Chivas’ last title in the Clausura 2027 tournament by pointing out that the Referees Commission was the decisive factor in scheduling referee Luis Enrique Santander on three occasions in Guadalajara’s matches.

The controversial ESPN host made reference to the fact that in the league of that tournament where Chivas took the crown under the orders of the Argentine Matías Almeydathe whistler Luis Enrique Santander was scheduled for the second leg of the quarterfinals against Atlas, the second leg of the semifinals against Toluca and in the second leg of the grand final against Tigres where the Sacred Flock ended up being crowned. .

Faced with these assertions, the host Carolina Padrón and Ricardo Ferretti, They refuted the judgment of the so-called “Witch” Morales and in that sense Ferretti went further by pointing out that: “There is a better player in America who is not named, which is Gato Ortiz and Adonai. With these two no one beats them. These are absolute starters, they play everything. It is the “Eagle Cat”.

It was then that the dialogue became a little tense and Ferretti insisted that both whistlers have recognized publicly that they made mistakes in their marking in the América finals against Tigres in the Apertura 2023 tournament and against Cruz Azul in the Clausura 2024.

In the final of the Apertura 2023 tournament, Escobedo sent off Tigres player Raymundo Fulgencio in the second half when there were eleven minutes left in normal time and that tipped the balance in favor of the Eagles in a duel that until then was very even.

While in the Clausura 2024 tournament Marco Antonio Ortiz scored a very rigorous penalty against Cruz Azul due to a foul by the Argentine Carlos Rotondi on Israel Reyes 13 minutes from the end in a marking that he could have missed and that in the end determined the American victory.

This marking has generated a whole negative current against the whistler Marco Antonio Ortiz and now the former coach of Tigres and Cruz Azul revived these passages where the Nazarenes have had a hand.

To finish, Álvaro Morales mentioned that in the final of the 2013 Clausura tournament Paul Delgadillo had left América with ten men from the first half and that even though Cruz Azul could not win, even though the whistler Two years later he apologized for his mistakes against the Celestial Machine.

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