While it is true that many people still continue to question the reasons and why the successful Brazilian coach, Ricardo Ferretti, could not succeed at Cruz Azul, the reality is that the strategist who, together with the legendary Ignacio Trelles, are the most successful in the history of Mexican soccer, could not replicate his renowned career in a team like the “Celestial Machine”, in the Clausura 2023 and Apertura 2023 tournaments, at the end of the day the reasons could lie in thorny management with some players.
The above arises after The opinion, He had access to certain unofficial details that marked the fate of the Brazilian coach, such as not having the support of several players within the cement team, among them that of the captain of Cruz Azul, the Paraguayan Juan Escobar, as well as having lost trust of the cement high command headed by engineer Víctor Velázquez.
Among the most significant data that was wearing down the relationship between the Paraguayan defender and the defender Carlos Salcedo, who arrived at the cement team in the previous tournament, Apertura 2023, as an option to shore up the light blue defense, an area where since the Apertura championship 2022 under the command of the Uruguayan Diego Aguirre and Raúl Gutiérrez, there was too much suffering.
Even Ferretti himself, when he took command of Cruz Azul in relief of Raúl Gutiérrez from date nine of the Clausura 2023 tournament, resented the ravages of having a defensive zone with many doubts. So, thinking about promoting this area and that the Celeste Machine would have more security arguments, he opted for the arrival of Salcedo to partner with Escobar.
But instead of the arrival of the famous “Titan” contributing to greater integration and growth of both players, as well as an improvement in the collective functioning of the cement defense, the fight of egos began, to prove who could have control. on the cement plant. Obviously, Salcedo’s closeness to Ferretti generated a lot of resentment in Escobar, who began to question the ability and arguments of the Brazilian strategist.
Among the details provided to this publishing house, the fact that stood out was that in the relationship between Ferretti and Escobar there was never a lack of respect or that the Paraguayan defender had assumed any type of rebellion against his teammates, if not, on the contrary, His own teammates always highlighted the attitude of the Guaraní defender.
The reality is that Escobar’s influence on several players was replicated, where Ferretti’s training methods were questioned, doing workouts that seemed too physically demanding and much less physically demanding.
These types of events reduced the team’s confidence in the Brazilian coach, as the players of the celestial team themselves realized that Escobar was not comfortable with Ferretti’s way of directing, but above all because of his attachment to Carlos Salcedo. with whom the struggle to impose his personality within the team became more noticeable.
These factors, such as the fact that players like the Argentine Carlos Rotondi were not happy with the team because they promised him an amount of money and did not fulfill it, little by little made the permanence as coach of Ricardo Ferretti, who was Relieved of his position on matchday 3 of the previous tournament after accumulating three consecutive defeats and failure in the Leagues Cup against the Major League Cup teams.
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