Salernitana finally ended up sealing their mathematical relegation in Italy this Friday after suffering a new defeat, this time at the hands of Frosinone (3-0), thus completing the third relegation for Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa on his journey through European football.
The Mexican goalkeeper was not called up for the match that opened matchday 34 of Serie A where the Salerno team suffered its 26th setback of the season and the fourth in the last five matches to be left with just 15 points in last place. of the classification.
Until now the Salernitana They have only achieved a couple of victories in the current campaign of the Italian tournament, the last of them against Hellas Verona (0-1) on December 30. From that moment on they have played a series of 17 games without being able to get the three points, which ended up condemning them.
Established in the last place in the table and with constant changes on the bench in which up to four coaches sat this season including the current one, Stefano Colantuono, the Mexican Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa began to lose prominence in the starting team.
Additionally, it was known several weeks ago that the experienced Mexican goalkeeper, who still has one season remaining on his contract with the team that will play next season in the Italian second division, will not continue with the team after reaching an agreement with the board to be free.
The second campaign of “Memo” Ochoa with the Salerno team was not at all like the first in which they were also fighting to achieve permanence, an objective that they achieved thanks to good performances from the Mexican who became one of the team figures.
However, now things were different and the Mexican could not avoid the disaster of the team that still has four games to play, although it already knows that it has secured its ticket to the Italian Serie B for next season.
Third relegation for “Memo” Ochoa
Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa knows very well what it is like to lose the category with a team in European football where he arrived for the 2010-2011 season with the help of French Ajaccio, precisely one of those that was relegated with the Mexican goalkeeper in its ranks. .
The other team he went down with was Granada of the Spanish LaLiga in the 2016-2017 season. Despite this, the captain of the Mexican National Team did not get to play in the second division on either of the two previous occasions, just as it will not happen this time with Salernitana.
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