The former América player assures that it is embarrassing to see the team currently led by the Argentine strategist
The America is mired in a crisis of results that includes just one win in their last 10 games league, in this tournament the Eagles add 4 points and are in position No. 16 of the overall table so that John Anthony Moona member of the team America that dominated in the 1980s, noted exclusively for ESPN which is a shame the work of Santiago Solari in front of the Eagles and asks the technical director to recognize his incapacity on the azulcrema bench.
“The numbers of America In the tournament that we are going through, even I feel sorry for it, it is a shamethe Americahas only four points, the truth is that it’s a shameful thingI am separated from America clubalthough my feelings there remain because I am in love with that team, but now that I see this four point stat it is a shame.
“I have been a coach for a long time at lower levels, such as Liga de Ascenso, Segunda División, but you have to have shame and at some point knowing how to say ‘I can’t, it’s over and I can’t handle this’, the truth makes me laugh and embarrass what is happening with Club Americathey have one game won, one tied, eight goals for and 13 against, It was so that the coach would come out with a brown paper bag on his head and thus lead at the Azteca Stadium, on Saturday at CU or at the stadium where he was going to stop.the truth is one shame what this team is doing, occupies a very embarrassing place in the general table“.
On the other hand ‘the bobblehead‘ pointed out that Solar They have not fired him from Coapa just because he is a foreign coach.
“They have always come to sell us mirrors and it will not be the exception now, Solar he cannot hide behind that good memory of the step he had America last year because he has to sign the championship and he hasn’t signed it there,” he said. “Unfortunately we have the great characteristic that we are consenting and consistent, what’s more, I assure you that If he had been a Mexican coach, he would no longer beand I sign it for you, even if it were the most successful coach, but if it were Mexican, they would have already fired him, we have always liked to listen and hear what we like to hear, you will see that at some point Solari will come out and they will bring another big one from somewhere else and it will be the same problemit is a reality that Solar He arrived with a great load of praise and now all those who praised him also throw everything at him, but we are in Mexico and that is how we like to cope with our football”.
Lunawho won multiple titles as a player of the Eaglespointed out that the numbers of Solar in his first year at the helm of the club, where he was the leader, they are just an anecdote and are useless for anything else.
“The America It is no longer the team to beat, now there are several clubs that are above the America and above all in the soccer question, so that you increase your greatness and your numbers in soccer you have to be champion, it is useless for you to be the general leader throughout the tournament if in the first phase they are going to kick you out”, he sentenced. “In In the 1980s, this is how it happened to us who were super leaders, we were the team that scored the most goals and conceded the fewest, the one that lost the fewest games, we set a record for points but an experienced team like Tigres grabbed us and left us out, those leader tournaments do not count in the history of a big team like Americahaving dominated the tournament does not count because what matters is the league, because it is the one that gives the titles and the one that increases your history as an institution.
Also, the former coach of the club asked Solar not invent more positions and pointed to him as the main person responsible for the Americanist crisis.”
“America It is a team that plays by itself and I am telling you this because it happened to me when I was the coach, the only thing I did was put them in their place and remove them from responsibilities, I was looking at the squad America and there are 12 Mexicans and foreigners, how is it possible that with 10 foreign players a Mexican team cannot work?” he said. “When I directed the America nine Mexicans played and eight were from basic forces, except for Ismael Rodríguez who came from Monterrey, Sebastián Domínguez who was Argentine and Salvador Cabañas who was Paraguayan, from then on all the other players were Mexican, as I say it is not much science because the America always has good players.
“Whoever is saying that the crisis is the fault of the players is because someone is directing things so that the players are the ones who pay the piperbut they are the least suitable because the coach is the one who tells the soccer players what they have to do, as I told you, it really is not great science to direct the AmericaI think that if they put in a coach like Raúl Rodrigo Lara and gave him the opportunity to direct, he would do very well.”
America’s bad step subtracts shine from the match against Pumas
A new edition of the capital’s classic will be played on Saturday when the America be measured at Pumas in Ciudad Universitaria, a duel that generates a special passion in the players, although Luna indicated that this time it loses shine due to the misstep of the Eagles.
“It’s a very attractive meeting. America against Pumas because a great rivalry has been made and several very disputed finals have been played, unfortunately the moment it is going through America The quality of the match that a capital classic expects is lowered, unfortunately the emotionality of the match is lowered due to the bad step that the America in this tournament,” he declared. “Before you could think that, but I don’t think it’s the game of the year for Pumasbefore you could say yes because in the past the America was the team to beat, but now there are other teams that have more power than Americathey have more and better quality players, they have higher payrolls than the Americais no longer the team to beat, now there are several clubs that are above the America and above all in the football question”.
On the other hand, Luna assured that although the match against Pumas has become very important, it is not even close to catching up with the passion and interest of the America against Guadalajara.
“The America against Chivas is something very special, that’s where the classics were born and later the marketing became generalized and more came, but I think the Mexican classic is America against Guadalajara and in fact in the entire history of Mexican soccer there has only been one final between these two teams, fortunately America he won it and has that hierarchy over the Sacred Flock, at present there is talk of many classics such as against Cruz Azul or against Pumasbut I believe that the essence of the classics was born with the America against Guadalajara.”
Finally, the ‘pigheaded‘ he fondly remembers the games he was able to play against Pumas and hopes that Saturday’s game honors the entire atmosphere generated by the clash between Eagles and felines.
“They are two teams that have a great pull in terms of the public, they have a very substantial number of fans and they face each other in the stadium because the Pumas they fill the Azteca Stadium and the Americanists go and enter the house of the Pumas like Pedro for his house and that gives a very emotional touch to the games, I had to play several league and group games and even finals against them and they were very difficult games, with a very competitive team that was characterized by its physical resistance and its good handling the ball and above all their virtue No. 1 is that they never give up and you can see it in the last league in which Pumas eliminated the America even though he wasn’t the favourite.”
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