America, a crisis with several culprits

America woke up as the last place in the tournament, an unworthy position for an institution that boasts of being the largest in Mexican soccer. It had been five years since the Eagles had been seen in that disgraceful last position, the last time was in the Clausura 2017, when the team was led by Ricardo LaVolpe, although he was only in that position for one day, but at the end of the regular phase he did not reach the pass to the Liguilla.

In short tournaments, the team from Coapa has been four times at the bottom of the classification, the most critical stage was in the Clausura 2008, when the team was led by Daniel Brailovskythe Russian came out on Day 6; I arrive Reuben Romano and he also failed to change the dynamic and left on Date 16, so on the last day John Anthony Moon sat on the bench. The club spent 9 games as last place and finished in that position.

After the departure of Solarin the offices a coach is being looked for in a certain hurry, but despite the urgency they do not want to fall into haste, for that reason, the match against Monterrey will be led by Ferdinand Ortizthe former Argentine defender who was in charge of the Under 20 team.

Culprits and solutions

The truth is that Americanism woke up with a bruised spirit. Adrian Chavez – historical goalkeeper of the club, who won two Leagues, two Champion of Champions, three Concacaf Cups and an Inter-American Cup – talks about the critical situation that the azulcrema team is going through.

“It makes me sad to see him there,” he says. Chávez and adds that “everyone is responsible, the board, the coaching staff and the players, when the former players get together and talk about what is happening, we see that America has lost its identity, we do not know what it is playing at.”

And he assures that time was wasted in making the decision to cease Santiago Solaribecause he had to leave after being eliminated by Pumas. “I had already learned the first tournament, if I didn’t know how the Liguilla was played, I had already learned that it is a different tournament that you have to play differently to be a champion, but it happened at night and nothing happened, the team did not advance, there he must have gone; the board should have taken steps to make him leave and he wouldn’t be with the problems he’s having.”

Regarding the profile that the coach who reaches the America, Chávez He maintained that he must be “a coach who knows Mexican soccer, who gets to see what he has to take advantage of it and, most importantly, who knows what America is, which is a club that you do not come to see what happens , here you come to be a champion or it is better that you do not arrive ”.

Likewise, he considers that he has to change the work structure, that from the basic forces the processes must be corrected. “They have to work, redouble efforts and work more than they have been doing, not only physically, but also mentally; each player is going to be looking for his position and they must work harder because it is the only way to get ahead”.

Chávez and most William Ochoa to a leader who can set the tone to get out of the crisis “but not him alone, he is not the only one, this is a group, because they are not a single player and they have to work harder, make more effort to be able to get the team out of where it is there and there is a campus to do it”.

15 points for the playoff

In the critical situation of America, the only positive is that the competition system allows you to stay in the fight. With the repechage phase reinstated three tournaments ago, the Eagles need 15 more points to reach 21 and secure their place as one of the 12 classified, since the average to qualify has been between 20 and 21 units. Yes, mandatory America he will need to double his effectiveness: go from a very poor 25 percent to 50, if he does not want to sign a nightmare tournament.

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