Throughout the history of Blue Cross a first Division, Only 9 former players have had the opportunity to lead the Machine and none has been champion. Four of them have even arrived to try to break the team’s untitled 23-year drought since 1997.
Now, Juan Reynoso is the tenth element cement which comes with DT and the fifth to arrive with the intention of ending the 25-year curse without being champions. the Peruvian live the last title of the cement to be the base player of the team of Luis Fernando Tena in the winter of 1997.
With DNA, but insufficient
The coaches who wore the players’ shirts the Machine and failed in the attempt they were Enrique Meza, with 4 stages; Alberto Quintano, Héctor Pulido, Rubén Omar Romà, Benjamí Galindo, Robert Dante Siboldi and, with few games, Joaquín Bru, Jesús de el Mur and Miguel Marín.
While the choice of footballers who defended the shirt of a club to be coaches appeals that they know a little more about the ideology of the institution, in the celestial picture this argument seems to fall short, as neither before the most recent cement championship nor after 1 former player has given glory to the Machine a first Division.
Then there is Winter 97
After the title of the winter 1997, The first former player to take the technical direction was Enrique Meza, From March 2003 to March 2004. After a year, the Eyes he was fired with a 59 percent effectiveness in what was his third stint on the bench.
Meza spent much of his career with the Blue Cross, being a substitute goalkeeper for Miguel Marin, but still he knew the ideology from head to toe and lived the golden age of the seventies winning the titles of the seasons Mexico 1970, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1978-79.
Rubén Omar Romanole followed in his footsteps Meza. For the 2005, the Argentinean was named DT of Blue Cross. He played between 1992 and 1993, with a not so lucky step in midfield. That year, Roman lived a kidnapping and was never able to consolidate with the team of the Ferris wheel.
Failures continued and by 2008 the drought was already in its first decade. So the board decided to bring in another former player. In this case, a Benjamin Galindo appeared and was awarded a year, from 2008 to 2009, achieving an effectiveness of 41 percent which was insufficient to maintain confidence, although it reached the Final of the Closing 2008 that lost on penalties in front Toluca. His dismissal originated after he was not classified in the closure 2009, On the penultimate date.
Again account Meza took the helm of the promised team as it was reinforced with items like Emanuel Vila i José de Jesús Corona. Meza returned them to tie and took them to the 2019 Opening Final ahead Monterrey which they lost again.
Enrique Meza had confidence and continued until 2012, and the 2010 Opening showed a powerful Blue Cross, listed as the best in recent years, but were eliminated by Pumas in Quarterfinals. And in the bicentennial 2010 that painful elimination in Semifinals before was lived in front Morelia, Same tragedy that lived the following campaign.
Almost 10 years later and a catwalk of coaches, the Machine having a former player back on board. Robert Dante Siboldi was hired in September 2019. While in 2009 he led a match after the departure of Benjamin Galindo, The ancestral year was his first official opportunity. Siboldi defended the celestial arc in the 93-94.
for opening 2019 does not classify the team, in the closing 2020 it had a better performance, but the pandemic and the cancellation of the tournament left the DT charrúa without possibilities.
Already in the Guard1anes 2020 reassembled the team and between one stumble and another, he classified. They became favorites until they suffered one of the worst eliminations in their entire history. Pumas gave the never seen tumble in Lligueta of a 4-0 to tie with the 4-4 and in penalties they derailed to The Machine.
Now, Juan Reynoso arrives with the intention of breaking that negative streak for former players cement companies which have become DT s of The Machine.
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