Tuca Ferretti’s take on this drama.
By: Albert | March 19th, 2008
First of all, Tuca Ferretti, current Pumas de UNAM Technical Director says he would rather be a “street sweeper” than coach the Mexican National Team. Not even if he was the last Technical Director in the world, would he consider taking the job. He doesn’t give specific reason as to why, but does say that it is may be because he “knows too much”. He has spent 30 years in Mexican football and 17 years as a coach.
Whether Hugo should be replaced or who should replace him, he did not comment. He would rather leave that to those who are in charge of making those decisions. He did say he was saddened by the elimination of the U-23 Mexican team but that the current drama that is taking place is a bit exaggerated. He mentions that sometimes our hopes are above and beyond reality, citing specifically doing well in an Olympic tournament. He also mentions that the level of play in CONCACAF has increased and that needs to be taken into consideration. Teams like Guatemala, Haiti, USA have increased and can’t be taken lightly.
In this final aspect is where I have to slightly disagree. Yes the level of play has increased, but so has the level of play in Mexico. U-17 players were champions in Peru not too long ago. They play in 1st division football in Mexico and some in Europe. Expectations should be high, but not be meant to put pressure on the players. I think this is what the pre-tourney games did. Chants of “Lavolpe” puts pressure on the players and coach. It is not common in Mexico that when things go bad, fans turn ugly and cease to support. This has to change. We need to support in the good and bad.
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I don’t think it’s support that’s the problem. When Lavolpe was coach Hugo wouldn’t let him do his job and kept trying to turn people on Lavolpe.
The arrogance and confidence he had was enough to say “If I’m coach I will win the World Cup” and now fans want to know how he plans to do that when he can’t even beat Guatemala etc (no offense Guatemala)
He even tried to back peddle and say “I would like to win the World Cup..” I like Hugo but the decision to become coach was too premature and rushed.
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I think Tuca is right on a lot of levels. The guy knows Mexican futbol and is one of the few coaches in Mexico who actually speaks the truth. Coaching Mexico’s National Team is an unenviable task and why some would want it I don’t know. The CONCACAF has gotten a lot better since Hugo’s day.
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Hugo asked for the job and in fact did so much that he took every chance to bring down LaVolpe. He promised a lot and never actually came through with anything. In part why I think he wanted the job so bad was because he is a egomaniac, you could see that in all the interviews he has done. Yeah the CONCACAF has gotten better but so has Mexico. We are talking about a lot of kids on that team who are one year removed from playing in the U-20 World Cup and three years removed from playing and winning the U-17 World Cup. These kids are playing in one of the toughest and most competitive leagues in the western hemisphere. No disrespect to Haiti but they looked like a pub team. Guatemala does not have any number near that Mexico has in Europe. Lastly Hugo is not the guy based on his tactics. Mexico’s team is successful when they take advantage of their biggest asset which is their speed. If speed is your biggest asset why would you have Fernandez, Esqueda, and Landin as your fowards and take out Barrera and Castillo. Not only that you push Villaluz to the center midfield a place he got lost in during the Guatemala game. None of those moves make any sense and if you look at some of his decisions in the Gold Cup and Copa America this is not the first time he made some questionable decisions.
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Hugo is all talk no results. I actually thought he would be a great coach for Mexico, but all he has done with the senior team is test out new players every freaking game! What Mexico needs is a set base of players that can learn to play together. We all know Mexico has the technical skill to succeed but I think they all need to work on their collective skils.
The only coach I can really see succeeding at the national level is Javier Aguirre. Even though I know this will not happen again.
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