The Uruguayans Diego Alonso and Vicente Sánchez are the two main candidates to take over as the technical director of Cruz Azul from the Argentine Martín Anselmi, who according to unofficial versions is living his last minutes as coach of the Blue Machine by accepting an offer to direct the team. Port of Portugal.
By virtue of the surprising news of this offer for the cement technician, The high command of Cruz Azul is moving to try to close the signing of Alonsowho already coached Pachuca and Monterrey in the Liga MX, being crowned champion with the Tuzos in the 2016 Clausura tournament.
So far Alonso is without a team after his bad moment with Panathinaikos in Greece, where in 17 games he only won seven, drew five and lost the same number of games. Besides The Uruguayan coach has experience in the MLS at the helm of Inter Miami, as well as Sevilla of Spain, among other teams.
Other candidates are the Portuguese Renato Paiva, the Argentine Gabriel Milito and the Uruguayan Guillermo Almada, but the latter will take control of the team until June,
Anselmi’s departure a fact
Unofficial versions assure that Porto FC is willing to pay the clause of 5 million dollars for the termination of Anselmi’s contract, with which Iván Alonso would close the signing of his cousin Diego Alonso, to try to maintain the same idea in the technical management of the cement producers.
The truth is that it will be within the next few hours when Anselmi’s departure for Porto will take place after the company that represents him began negotiating with the Portuguese team for six months the option of hiring Anselmi. until Monday night when he decided to inform the Cruz Azul board of his decision to leave Mexican soccer.
It should be noted that Anselmi would go to the European team accompanied by his coaching staff who is made up of Facundo Oreja, Luis Patur, Diego Bottaoili, Alberto Sigata and Darío Herrera, who have his back and know their leader’s work method.
Given this eventuality, Those from Cruz Azul don’t even get hot from the sun, because the news of Anselmi’s departure takes them with their fingers on the door, since they had designed a squad to fight for the title again after in the 2024 closing tournament, they were one step away by losing the final with America in that controversial penalty against Argentine Rodolfo Rotondi against Israel Reyes
As well as the defeat in the semifinals of the Apertura 2024 against América itself due to another controversial penalty committed again by Rotondi and that spoiled the Machine’s plans to lift the tenth crown in its history.
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