These will be the first challenges that Santiago Solari will have to overcome as the new coach of the Eagles
Santiago Solari was announced as the new coach of America and will succeed Miguel Herrera, who, despite becoming a featherweight history, came out amid strong criticism after two failures against Chivas and LAFC in the CONCACAF Champions League. The Argentine helmsman was linked in the last seven years with Real Madrid, where he went through the lower categories from Cadet B, Cadet A, Youth B, Real Madrid Castilla and to the first team, where he won a Club World Cup.
Solari will have his second experience as a coach at First Division level and for what will be his new adventure, at ESPN Digital we present the challenges he will face in the Eagles and MX League.
SHAPE A GAME STYLE
The last tournament of the azulcrema table was the most questioned in the two stages that Miguel Herrera lived as a club strategist. The criticism the team received was made up of the results they achieved throughout the semester due to the individual quality shown by their now former players, which led them to collect points and place them among the top four. four championship places; however, everything changed in the last matches where they succumbed to Ramat in the quarterfinals of the Guard1anes 2020, lost in the return leg of the CONCACAF Champions League to Atlanta United and were eliminated from this tournament in the semifinal match against the LAFC.
The team received the harshest criticism and the style of play they had had in their best moments was forgotten. Now, Solari will have to regain the confidence of the planter and get a style that pleases the board and fans.
The tactical scheme used in his passage through Real Madrid was a 4-2-3-1, but as the matches ran and the pressure increased due to the requirement of the team changed to a 4-3-3.
The Eagles already used the first system with Miguel Herrera, this due to the injuries that presented / displayed the equipment throughout the last match and that took to them to play with a new sun. In the coming days he will have the support of Gilberto Adame, who was Miguel Herrera’s technical assistant and at the request of the board he stayed to be interim coach to lead the first days of the preseason, but is expected to continue working from the hand of the new strategist. Solari will have the pressure to implement their style of play over the next few days, as they will have less than two weeks to work and live their first Guard1anes 2021 game on January 9 when they face Atlético of Sant Lluís on the track of the Aztec Stadium.
UNWANTED PLAYERS
A few weeks ago Roger Martínez and Andrés Ibargüen were sentenced by team president Santiago Banys, who announced nationally and internationally that these men have no place in the club because “his time at the club is over.”
Solari could rule out the participation of these two men, mainly Roger, who in the last year and a half has tried to force his departure from the team under his own conditions, but the club has not given in to pressure, as who do not want to lose money for his transfer and have made it clear that any team I wanted the footballer will have to pay more than $ 10 million, a figure that seems high due to the economic crisis facing teams worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
LACK OF REINFORCEMENTS
The club will seek to give Solari all the optimal working conditions for Guard1anes 2021, but one of the problems facing the club is the lack of capital, as the only man they have been able to close is Mauro Lainez.
In the orbit of the institution have sounded men like Alan Medina, Pedro Aquino, Fabian Castillo, Marcel Ruíz, Luis Quiñones and Leo Fernández, but of the aforementioned there have only been negotiations for the first two. America wants Medina in exchange for a player exchange, but in Toluca they want money and not players. Meanwhile, Aquino ended his contract with Leon and has advanced talks with Coapa and this week could be his arrival on the team.
A DECADE WITHOUT CONTACT WITH MEXICO
The ‘Indiecito’ does not know the MX League, as in his time as a footballer he was with Atlante from 2009 to 2010, which led him to know the fields of the First Division and most clubs that currently remain in the maximum circuit.
Solari lived in Guadalajara when his father directed to Toluca, Monterrey, Celaya, Athletic Morelia and Atlas; his uncle headed to America in 1997 and his brother Esteve also had his walk through the national fields while playing with the Pumas.
A DEMANDING HOBBY
The coach of the meringue team could have a period of adaptation in his first experience in Mexico, he will be able to count on the support of the dome, but the azulcrema fans are recognized for not having patience with the team and want to see results from the first game.
Solari will live the pressure of the most hated team in Mexican football, but only two years ago he had the reins of one of the most followed clubs in the world and where he was under the magnifying glass of international criticism where he came out with a record of 22 wins in 32 games, two draws and eight defeats. In addition to getting a Club World Cup.