Camoranesi at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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Mexican soccer is one of the most important tournaments in Concacaf. The Liga MX together with the MLS have fought inch by inch for the distinction of the best league in the region. Although it is one of the most prestigious championships, from Italy they did not see the Aztec tournament with great eyes. This is how he explained it Mauro Camoranesi former player of Santos Laguna and Cruz Azul.
The world champion soccer player with Italy in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, He went from Liga MX to the Italian Serie A. Camoranesi arrived at Hellas Verona and then signed for Juventus Turin. But in that period of time the player noted the ignorance of Aztec football on Italian soil.
“I was the first player in the Mexican championship to go to Italy and when I got to Verona my teammates carried me. But I had an important vision (of Aztec football) that is not known outside, It is not known that Monterrey has a stadium where 50,000 people go or that there are five in Mexico City, they do not know, nobody knows.“, explained Camoranesi to TUDN.
The ex player of the Juventus of Turin He highlighted the facilities and infrastructure that Mexican soccer could at that time. Camoranesi exemplified how Mexican soccer had more comforts than the first level in Europe.
“We had our own stadium, the Estadio Azul, we concentrated in a five-star hotel, in Verona it was a two-star hotel. The stadium is communal, we have only one training field, at Cruz Azul we had three fields. LThe infrastructure of Mexican soccer at that time (2000) was already (good)”, he concluded.
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