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If there is a team that does not usually listen to the offers of America, it is Toluca and the Devils for a long time endured the money bombs offered by the Eagles by their main figures such as José Cardozo, Paulo da Silva and Antonio Naelson “Sinha”, who they never wore the coat of the Coapa outfit.
On some occasion Rafael Lebrija, president of the Devils in the late 1990s and early 2000s, pointed out that the Devils refused to accept all kinds of offers for their players.
“Don Valentín (Díez) said that he wanted to have his team, so he didn’t sell. Fortunately he had the financial resources to not have to depend on selling a player, that’s why at that time we didn’t sell to anyone, for Cardozo they offered us seven, eight million, for Sinha equal eight million, for Paulo (Da Silva) sitting in a restaurant they also offered me 8 million for him, it was America ”, he said several months ago on TUDN.
Cardozo did have the opportunity to play in other clubs as a reinforcement in the Copa Libertadores, first he did it in Cruz Azul and then in Pachuca, while Da Silva also played for Pachuca for a year and then returned to the Diablos, while Sinha played in Querétaro .
Vicente Sánchez and Fabián Estay the exception
The only figures who went from Toluca to America were Fabián Estay and Vicente Sánchez, elements who shone at the Eagles at times although they could not win any championship.
Estay went from the ranks of Toluca to Coapa in Winter 99 and although in the two and a half years that he was at the club he was not champion, he scored 11 goals and with the exception of the last tournament that was Winter 2001, in the others he was a starter .
For his part, Vicente Sánchez arrived at the Eagles in the Apertura 2010 and he had to live a difficult time for the team, where the results were not fully achieved and he could only be in three tournaments.
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