It doesn’t go any further. Pablo Vico leaves Brown de Adrogué. The successful coach will coach this Friday against Estudiantes de Río Cuarto, in Córdoba, and he will abandon the position he assumed 15 years ago.
The record DT put an end to his stay in Adrogué. Although in the last few hours the club manager Facundo Lemmo had ratified the “full” support for “Bigotón”, it was Vico himself who, in a brief conversation with Diario La Unión, confirmed the news this afternoon.
“The club’s support never, ever ceased to exist. They always supported me, but it is time to close this chapter,” said the coach who took over on March 21, 2009.
The end of last Sunday’s game with a tough win against Colón de Santa Fe (0-4) at the Lorenzo Arandilla stadium was the last straw. The public made him feel his discontent and there he understood that it was time to make a decisive decision.
“It was 15 years, a lot of wear and tear, this year things didn’t go the best way, so with my coaching staff we decided to step aside and give the club the freedom to choose a new coach,” he said in the middle of a deep sadness.
In 13 dates of the Primera Nacional season, the Adrogué Tricolor barely had one win, five draws and seven defeats, with the most defeated goal (23 goals). The team is last in Zone B, in a direct relegation position and with a future that must change radically in the short time to straighten the course.
Vico understands that, based on this decision, the football situation will decompress and allow a new stage to begin. “Our departure will renew the air in the club and hopefully whoever comes can achieve what we couldn’t in 13 dates. There is still room,” he added.
In the final section of the talk, the charismatic coach, the one who knew how to win the affection of all of Adrogué and is applauded in every court where he appears, spoke to the fan from the heart. “One, as a fan of the club, wants to apologize and to the member, this time things didn’t go the way we all wanted. I don’t want to harm the club, so the decision has been made.”
After 4,972 uninterrupted days, Pablo Vico became the Argentine soccer coach who lasted the longest in charge of the same team without leaving his position. Adrogué’s “Ferguson” took that record from Victorio Spinetto, historic coach of Vélez Sarsfield.
He will no longer walk the 74 steps from his house to the grass of the Lorenzo Arandilla stadium. In each of them there will be thousands of stories, good ones and others. The coach leaves with two promotions under his arm, the one in 2013 in the penalties against Almagro and the one in 2015 in the agonizing victory against Deportivo Morón. A story closes, but the legend will last forever.
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Pablo Vico exploded after the victory against Almirante Brown, in Isidro Casanova, and that catharsis was what led him to rethink his continuity in the club: “If they harass me in my own house and on my own field, I have to leave. I can’t stand those things, they have the right to be criticizing, there are times when things go right or wrong I scored the most points at home and the last game we played at home with Atlanta they ended up bitching me, they don’t realize that. “My grandchildren are going, four or five idiots fucking with me, we don’t deserve it.”
“Brown is my house, it is my home and I can make mistakes because I am a human being. What happened last week (always in relation to the defeat against Bohemio) hurt me a lot that they put me down. They hide behind a computer to insult me, they know me, they know that I live in the club, I prefer that they come look for me and tell me things face to face,” he concluded.
