:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/O5JLA7MCUZFLRHM7RKCBOYBDRE.jpg "Pachuca’s hint at FMF after excluding Guillermo Almada for the Tri")
A few hours after his presentation Diego Coke as the new technical director of the Mexican team football for the World Cup process around 2026, the Club Pachuca supported via his Twitter account for Guillermo Almadawho was also one of the main candidates for the Tri bench.
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According to information from the sports journalist, the FMF would have excluded Miguel Piojo Herrera as an option to take the reins of the Mexican team.
And it is that he actsthe champion of the Liga MX He posted a video with images of his 53-year-old Uruguayan strategist and the following message:
“For your passion, for your dedication, for your professionalism and for many other things… For us, you are the best coach in the world. Almadismo continues »
This publication has been described by many users as a clear document indirect to managers of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) for rejecting his DT.
Other Internet users have pointed out that the Uruguayan DT, who is the current champion of the MX League, in addition to imposing a more attractive style of play to that of Diego Cocca, bet on the youth of mexican players instead of foreigners.
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The double championship of Liga MX with the Rojinegros del Atlas is one of the facts that supported him to be a candidate for the Federation
“Definitely a better coach than Cocca, but shady things are going on in the national team, benefiting friends, family and promoters”, “I’m not even going to Pachuca and I think he’s the best coach in Mexico”, “Almada was, but he was not, they could elect him because he was from the Martínez group, an enemy of those who are in power at the moment”, “A devastating fact: Diego Cocca has never made his debut with a Mexican footballer”read between reactions.
It should be mentioned that the owner Grupo Pachuca, led by jesus martinezdid not hide its differences with Alejandro Irarragorripresident of Grupo Orlegi, and who, according to specialists, is currently the most powerful owner in Mexican football, for which he would have made an offer to put Cocca in the Aztec team, since he had him in his two teams: Santos Laguna and Atlas Mountains from Guadalajarain the latter he came out twice champion.
Even Martínez refused to be part of the Selection committee in which Irarragorri is next to Emilio Azcarragaowner of Club America; Amaury VergaraChivas from Guadalajara; Jorgealberto HankXolos from Tijuana; Ernesto Tinajero, from Necaxa; in addition to One of Luisapresident of the FMF, and its administrators Rodrigo Ares de Parga and Jaime Ordiales.
Diego Cocca is presented as the new coach of the national team
The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) will present the Argentinian as the new coach of the Tricolores ahead of the process towards the 2026 World Cup which will take place in Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Given the controversy generated, some did not hesitate, during the presentation of Cocca, to ask Ares de Parga the reasons for his exclusion from Guillermo Almada, after having declared that all candidates matched the profile be on the tricolor bench.
However, the chief dodged to answeralleging that they had already introduced the former UANL Tigres coach and that they were due to speak about it during the press conference held this Friday at the High Performance Centre.
The Charrúa strategist came to Mexican football during the Clausura 2019 with the Santos Laguna team, with whom he obtained a second place in 2021 and He went to the Pachuca bench for Clausura 2022, obtaining the second place and later, during the Apertura of the same year, he was crowned champion with the Tuzos.
Almada’s name has been associated with other national teams, such as Uruguay and of Ecuadoralthough so far none of these approaches have materialized.
Meanwhile, the new coach’s debut with the Mexican national team will take place next March, when El Tri will face Suriname there Jamaica in the Concacaf Nations League.
The man born in Buenos Aires 50 years ago arrives at El Tri with a record that includes a two-time championship with Atlas in the 2021-2022 season and an Argentine football title in 2014 with Race club.