Amaury Vergara, owner of Chivas del Guadalajara, one of the two teams with the most fans in Mexican soccercriticized this Sunday the view that exists in his country that European football is the only one worthwhile.
“I don’t like this view that European football is the only one that counts. Of course, there is an elite of European football and no one is going to deny it, but Mexican football, Latin football, have their essence and their particularities,” explained the president of Grupo Omnilife-Chivas.
After the failure of the Mexican National Team in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Argentine Gerardo Martino, coach of the tri, said that one of the reasons for Mexico’s lack of sporting results is due to the low export of players to Europe.
This thesis has also been shared by Jaime Lozano, Mexico coach, who after losing the final of the last Nations League against the United States, stated that what he has best in mind for the Americans is that the majority of their footballers play in European football.
Although he does not believe that European football is the only thing, Vergara began a trip to that continent this week, where he will take the opportunity to build alliances with clubs in Italy, Spain and England.
“The objective is the exchange of ideas, human capital and alliances to strengthen Chivas. Also to establish ties, especially in teams that have had Mexican players in the past and that would now be interested in him. We must open the doors and tend bridges to export our players.
Vergara assured that his team, which has not won a league title since 2017, is doing “very well”, despite the fact that last week it lost the leader of its sports project, the Spanish Fernando Hierro, who signed for Al-Nassr Saudi
“I feel excited and excited because the team qualified directly to the quarterfinals in the last three tournaments, in which a semifinal and a final were played. That brings us closer to being champions, which is what it should aspire to a great team.”
As a replacement for Hierro, who led the team in the last three competitions, the board headed by Vergara named the Spaniards Juan Carlos Martínez Castrejo and Fran Pérez Lázaro.
