With vast experience in leagues from different parts of the world, Javier Aguirre It is an authorized voice when it comes to talking about football. And when asked about the importance of Mexican soccer outside the country, the coach of Rayados from Monterrey expressed that MLS is more watched than Liga MX in Europe.
“After 12 seasons in Spain I would sadly tell you that we don’t promote ourselves well, nobody watches Mexican soccer, there are platforms and there is history, soccer people do, but the average fan, he doesn’t see it,” he said. “El Vasco”, in dialogue with TUDN, giving an account of one of the important problems facing soccer in Mexico.
Along the same lines, the former coach of “Tri” assured that the US MLS has more calls than Liga MX: “The MLS, easier being there, living there, watching an MLS game, in Egypt and in Paris or Copa Libertadores, Brazil or Argentina and Mexico each week there was a summary, not from Mexico of the Concacaf ”.
To illustrate the little follow-up that Mexican soccer is given in the rest of the world, “Vasco” Aguirre appealed to the example of Miguel Herrera when he was one of the candidates to lead Betis in Spain. According to him, in Spain they did not know anything about the “Piojo” career.
“They don’t know us. I remember in El Chiringuito the name of Miguel Herrera for him Betis, one of the gatherings threw the name of Miguel Herrera, one of the best Mexican coaches in history, who made a great World Cup and has won many things in Mexico, the famous ‘Piojo’, Miguel Herrera and they tell you ‘I don’t know who it is’. We are doing something wrong, “he warned.
True to style, Aguirre He says what he thinks and his rings do not fall when exposing the problems that affect Mexican soccer. Will there be a response from the Federation?