Ricardo LaVolpe was the technical director of Boca Juniors who lost the title 2006 Opening Tournament in a tiebreaker with La Plata students (1-2 at José Amalfitani), after taking a four-point lead two dates from the end. He xeneize He came in with a six-point advantage with two days remaining and fell in both games against bellgrano (1-0) y lanus (2-1).
He mustache took over on matchday five to replace Alfio Basile, who had abruptly joined the national team after the surprising resignation of Jose Pekerman and after winning five titles in the same number of championships played with the xeneize.
To this day, questions from Boca Juniors supporters continue for not having been able to achieve the first triple championship in history. Not long ago, the team’s former footballer, Matías Cahais, came to affirm What shapes from the former coach Fox “The biggest in the team didn’t like them” and that’s part of what caused the incredible fall.
“The shapes he had weren’t the best and the tall ones didn’t like them, That’s why the friction happened.” Cahais pointed this out in an Instagram interview with César Luis Merlo. Between the referents of this campus were Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Martin Palermo, Hugo Ibarra and Daniel Cata Diaz.
And precisely, concerning the management of the abundance of egos in a team, the team itself Fox mentioned in an interview with Toti Pasman in Radio The Network. “I think I was very stupid and I blame myself for what I did at Boca. I came from a Mexican football team where they already knew who La Volpe was and they listened to me. In Boca, they made grimaces, little grimaces…”, began the former DT without mincing his words.
“I missed inviting them over for coffee, for breakfast or lunch. Invite them to dinner and chat, because you You’re the team’s psychologist, you convince them players or a team how they should play added. The truth is that for a long time it was said that the relationship with the team was broken almost from the start.
Punctually about the final disputed on the Vélez court, he concludes with a mixture of irony and anger: “What I was working for erupted when they fired (Pablo) Ledesma. There, it was easier for them and I lost my mark and my midfield. I never thought about this game for me it is that of LanúsI would put Belgrano on you, but key on the field of Boca what is it… mom. with Lanus and with the tie I go out champion please!… but the culprit was La Volpe, the players did not play”.
Finally, he left the door open to returning home to achieve: “I always wanted to take my revenge in Argentina. I came out second and they kill me, I lost two games that can’t be lost and they were lost, what are we going to do? It really makes me laugh.”
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