Always attached to his ideas, coach Ricardo Antonio LaVolpe assured in his social media program “Lavolpismo” that when he arrived in Mexican soccer at the end of the 70s and in the early 80s the Cruz Azul team was at its peak with a lot of notoriety and favorable results that allowed it to achieve the two-time championship under the command of one of the historical coaches of Mexican soccer like Ignacio Trelles, but he never liked its style.
LaVolpe’s comments were made in the broadcast where he had his naturalized Mexican compatriot Christian Giménez as a guest. and that he is the progenitor of Santiago Giménez, one of the figures of the Feyenoord of the Netherlands and the Mexican National Team.
The former champion strategist with Atlante and creator of a soccer trend in Mexico called “LaVolpismo”, was decisive in the endless controversy that he is more productive, Play beautifully or be a champion in Mexican soccer?
Especially with style controversies like that of Ricardo LaVolpe compared to that of Ignacio Trelles, Manuel Lapuente, Ricardo Ferretti or Víctor Manuel Vucetich, where several strategists have adopted the Argentine’s philosophy such as Miguel Herrera, Sergio Bueno and Francisco Ramírez, among others.
La Volpe’s confession was clear and he stated that: “The best team here when I arrived, in the 80s, was boring.” and what followed was the Cruz Azul of Nacho Trelles” and he concluded by pointing out that: “The dynamic is created by the game, football, what you win, that is what generates the dynamic and it was not there”
La Volpe questioned the issue of how the generation of athletes has been changing and how football has also been changing in terms of the way in which this sport is approached, where the strategist stated that: “Everything depends 100 percent on the coach, it is something that must always be worked on to seek results. In the end the end justifies the means, but I think that one becomes more attached to trying to achieve the results by proposing the games.”
Faced with LaVolpe’s statement It should be noted that said Cruz Azul team marked an era which allowed him to place himself among one of the so-called “big four of Mexican soccer” in reference to América, Chivas, Pumas and the cement workers.
At that time Cruz Azul put together a team with legendary players such as Miguel Marín, Ignacio Flores, Bardomiano Viveros, Miguel Ángel Cornero, Rafael Toribio, Guillermo Mendizábal, Carlos Jara Saguier, Gerardo Lugo, Rodolfo Montoya, Horacio López Salgado and José Luis Ceballos, who in two consecutive finals defeated the UNAM Pumas and to the Tigres of the UANL.
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