By Gerardo Romero
01 Dec 2023, 07:13 AM EST
The Argentine striker and main star of the UNAM Pumas in the Liga MX, Juan Ignacio Dinenno, was quite excited about his team’s participation in the Liguilla of the Apertura 2023 tournament after several championships in which they were out of competition at not being able to add the necessary points to participate in the quarterfinals of Aztec football.
In recent statements offered to the TUDN portal, the albiceleste player highlighted that his greatest dream has always been to win the title of champion with the UNAM Pumas and that this possibility is increasingly closer to being fulfilled thanks to the performance that the player has shown. team in this last semester of 2023 thanks to the direction of Antonio ‘Turco’ Mohamed.
“With great enthusiasm, I think that the club deserves to be in these instances in all the tournaments, towards two tournaments that we did not achieve it, I think we had a great regular phase. The only thing I want is to have titles beyond goals,” he expressed.
“Goals are important as long as they help the team win and what I want and long for most is to be able to become champion in this club. What I achieved on a personal level obviously made me very happy and very proud,” Dinenno added in his statements to journalists Rodrigo Celorio and Félix Fernández.
This emotion on the part of the attacker from the university institution is due to the fact that they managed to place themselves in fourth position in the Apertura 2023 tournament of the Liga MX on the last day of the regular phase in order to be able to play their quarterfinal key against the Chivas Rayadas of Guadalajara and thus try to reach the semifinals of the competition.
“I think this club deserves to fight for titles, it’s that simple, everyone will see the way to achieve that, I’m talking about whoever is in charge of the management, technique, tactics, whatever, but really the objective of the club is to fight where deserves what it is to fight for titles,” he explained.
“Turk is the Turk (Mohamed), he became champion in three different clubs, it is very difficult for me to talk about him and his achievements. I think what changed was… I don’t like to attribute it to luck, to efficiency perhaps, that we were able to maintain a rhythm throughout the tournament and not arrive so badly in need of points in the last four rounds and that made us play with a a little more confidence,” he added.
Finally, Juan Ignacio Dinenno was focused on continuing to support the Pumas with his goals and now has the possibility of making history by advancing to the final of the competition to be crowned the champions of Mexican soccer.
“Now that statistics, big data and so on are in fashion, from the last two tournaments that we did not qualify for there is a table of the points that the team deserves for the points it has, which is measured by the number of goals expected points, it is a metric that many use and in the two tournaments that we ended up eliminated, in one we were in fifth and sixth place in the expected points and the other as well. The important thing is that today we are where we deserve to be and that we have before us the great possibility of being part of the club’s history,” he concluded.
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