The former coach of the UANL Tigres questioned the good performance of the feline squad and assured that a large part of the squad is too old to be able to play in Aztec football; This is how he freed himself from guilt after his elimination in the last tournament
The Liga MX Clausura 2023 tournament has already begun and with it came a series of controversies that were mainly linked to the UANL Tigers and their all-time top scorer, Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac. The player stood out with his first goal in the tournament to get closer to 200 goals in his career with the Aztecs, but what was most surprising was the celebration he did after scoring the goal.
Gignac decided to put aside the euphoric celebrations that he is used to and celebrated the goal by emulating an old man with his cane and clear discomfort in his back and leaving the fans without understanding the reason; The celebration was dedicated to the former coach of the Tigres, Miguel ‘Piojo’ Herrera, who in a statement accused the team of having an “old” squad by taking the 37-year-old French attacker as a reference.
Despite these words from Piojo Herrera, who was sacked after the 2022 Apertura for failing to lift the championship title, the Frenchman proved to be in great physical shape and remains the offensive pillar of the Mexican club after beating the goal from Santos Laguna in the 83rd minute.
Miguel Herrera’s statements arose just after being eliminated by Pachuca in the quarterfinals of the Apertura 2022, where he mentioned several figures from the squad and accused them of being old; With this, the strategist tried to clean his hands of his defeat, but ended up causing controversy in the locker room and was cut off.
“If you want, I’ll sit Culebro (president of Tigres) here to tell him if they’re going to fire me, not even the people can decide that, me or someone else who comes will get the generational replacement that he has won, people get upset because you take out one player or another and you try to rejuvenate the team and well, someone is going to have it, if it’s not me it’s the one who comes, there will be a change and it has to happen, Gignac is not eternal”, Herrera said at the time to the press.
“I see him (Gignac) and he does run and fight, but it is not eternal, at some point they will have to retire, go or give up their place to young people and the DT that comes or I will have to think about it, suddenly not It sounds to people that many people are already 35, 37, 34 (years old) and they are the second largest squad in the tournament and we have to think about that, the changes in the team, ”he added.
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