To the Brazilian coach of Atlético San Luis Gustavo da Silva Leal, The credit in the Las Tunas team will end with this weekend’s duel vs. Santos Laguna, after the board announced in a press conference that it has thanked him and that it is not contemplated for the next Apertura 2024 tournament.
Unfortunately, the numbers of the Amazonian strategist in the current Clausura 2024 competition They were not liked by the board, since they expected the San Luis team to surpass the performance of the previous championship. where they reached the semifinals against Américabut now with four wins and eleven losses, things were not favorable no matter how much effort they made on the entire field of play.
Regarding this announcement, the South American technical director himself stated that: “This morning I informed the players, the need to have the last game together, the feelings of my departure are positive, thanks from the board, to say that I was very happy, both as a professional and as a person, the club opened the possibility for me to get to know Mexican soccer, to get to know the country. The fans always respected us, they took great care of us, my son grew up and in 20 days my Mexican daughter was born, I always knew my responsibility and commitment to make her happy.”
And he added that: “This feeling is good, because of the last tournament we did, because of the five tournaments in which three of us entered the league. and in the past we reached the semifinals, I don’t regret anything about the decisions I made. Not even if I didn’t go to America and stay here, I wrote a story with this team.”
Leal had the opportunity to continue his friend and colleague André Jardine in the project with América, but in the end he decided to take advantage of the opportunity to direct Atlético San Luis from the previous Apertura 2023 tournament with good dividends, but in the current championship things They didn’t turn out as expected.
Atlético de San Luis in the previous championship gave the surprise of eliminating León in the playoffs, then Monterrey in the quarterfinals and in the semifinal they fought a great duel with América, getting stuck in this phase of the league.
Now in the current championship they could only beat Mazatlán, Pumas, Puebla and Pachuca, which represented a hard blow to their aspirations to advance with authority in the league. It will be in the next few days when the Atlético San Luis board announces who will be Da Silva Leal’s replacement for the next tournament.
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