Gullit Peña is training with Guerreros de la Plata in the Third Division of Mexico awaiting a first call
Carlos ‘el Gullit’ Peña he bet on a project in the Mexican Football League and could not finish the tournament. Now coaching a team in the Third Division of Mexican football waiting for an offer for permission to return to the top circuit, Central American teams have knocked on the door of the former Leon player, Chivas and Cruz Azul.
“I received messages from Honduras, telling me that they were interested in Carlos Peña, but we can not manage that, it is a personal issue of Gullit,” confesses Luis Eduardo Vazquez, president of Guerreros de la Plata , the youngest manager in the category at 25 years old.
Carlos el Gullit Peña was with the Club Veracruzano de Futbol, of the Mexican Football League, but will retire from the team for non-payment and breach of promises. Now he trains with a team from the Third Division of Mexican football, waiting for a call that will allow him to return to the First Division.
“We have said it and we have seen that they are looking for him, now they are talking directly to him, because I think he has no representative, that is to say I am no longer very clear, but we do know that there are opportunities for them to return to the First Division or the MX Expansion League ”, adds Luis Eduardo Vázquez, who is in front of a project that he has created a few months ago.
The footballer who was two-time champion with León, along with Luis Montes and Ignacio González, came to play in Europe, now waiting for a call to return to the First Division. While his teammates are celebrating a new title with the Emeralds, he is training in the Third Division.
“I can’t play with us by regulation, because it’s an age-limited category, but we support him as much as possible and we hope he can return to the First Division soon.”
SEEKS TO RESURRECT FROM THE THIRD DIVISION
The two-time champion with León and world champion in 2014 seeks to revive his career with the team Guerrers de la Plata in the Third Division
A football school for children entering before the team Guerrero de la Plata of the Third Division of Mexican football, a club based in Deportivo La Antorxa, in Pachuca, Hidalgo, and trying to be the springboard to return to Carlos the Gullit Peña in the First Division, a soccer player who gained prestige with the bichampionship of Leon, at the beginning of the decade, he lost and it after several scandals outside soccer.
“Carlos Peña, thanks to coach Salvador Patiño who is yours in basic forces, gave us the power that if we could train with us, to be in rhythm and waiting for an offer of First Division to arrive. The category has an age limit, so you can only train and not play “, says Luis Eduardo Vázquez, the president of Guerreros de la Plata, the youngest manager in the category at 25 years old.
Gullit Peña went from the hustle and bustle of winning the bichampionship with the Lion, playing for the Chivas and Cruz Azul, traveling to Scotland for military service with the Rangers and being in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, to training with a modest team that seeks to promote youngsters and practice on a football field sharing space with a cement basketball court.
“The community and the team have accepted Carlos Peña very well. Also, photos are taken with their classmates or locals, as well as entering the locker rooms to change and live with young people, without any accessories. The La Antorcha sports center is part of an antorxista colony, so the presence of the Gullit motivates everyone around it ”.
Of the audience that shouted at him at the Camp Nou or the Akrón stadium now there is nothing, he is content with the children who will stay in the stands, after attending his football school, to watch his training sessions, the children are the witnesses of the recovery of Carlos Peña el Gullit Peña, who at the age of 30 is looking for another opportunity, the last one ?, in professional football.
“He is very stable, lively, we know he has offers and they have looked for him. With us nothing wins, there is only the invitation to train and we give them all the facilities. We know he is passing through, his level is for the First Division or Expansion League, at least ”.