‘Piojo’ Herrera acknowledged that he was surprised by his abrupt departure from the Eagles and the fact that he had no contact with the owner of the team
MEXICO CITY – Miguel Herrera broke the silence after 48 hours of Televisa’s top management they would make the decision to quit Club America.
In an extensive chat with ESPN, Today’s former coach of the Eagles acknowledges that certain extra-football situations could border on club owner Emilio Azcárraga and his director of the Football Committee, Joaquín Balcárcel, to make the decision to dismiss, but the at the same time he defends his sporting achievements and says that what has happened in the half time of the Concachampions Semifinal against the LAFC was an excuse to cut his process.
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“I think that was a pretext, I can’t say it was the extra court because honestly what happened on Saturday was absolutely nothing; I was talking to their coach (Bob Bradley) when the assistant ( In front of Razov) he approached, he also shouted I don’t know what so many things and I said ‘calm down, I’m going to calm people down.’ I was very calm, I was calming my people, I was taking people and I suddenly pulled my hair out and if you got a little out of control, but I didn’t react, I said, ‘I can’t be wrong.’ of decisions that are given in two seconds, we leave and when I return to the track they inform me that I am expelled “, the ‘Poll’ explained in an interview by video call.
“(Razov) He stretches out his hand to pull me away and itches my eye but in the end, I repeat, I went to the investor aware of what we had to do in the match to try to get the goal was to continue with the score in favor and take advantage of this man more than we had, then it seems to me that looking for this situation is a pretext, because in the end I am like this: I am passionate, I will not change the night to day and I will not change because that reflects my teams, the passion and determination that I have always shown. “
However, the same Herrera admits that sometimes he has to control his temper better.
“That I have to be measured, yes, and today between the time they put this on and some take it, it’s the circumstances that happen. I stay with the gratitude I have for this institution, with the affection they gave me. all, from the first day I landed (in America) at the end of 2011 until today that we are at the end of 2020, all the time I spent during this club, I am left with this affection, this determination that people gave it to me and people demanded it of me“From the club and the fans, then I’m just grateful and looking to work and do the best I can where my projects take me.”
The 52-year-old strategist admitted that in his career off-court situations have cost him dearly, such as being left out of the Mexican National Team in 2015 after an altercation with communicator Christian Martinoli, or now with America, but he has always paid all.
“Yes, there are things I have done that obviously hurt my work, especially after what in 2015 are certainly circumstances that one has to think about.After all, you are the leader of a team and you have to prove something, when you are in the institution you have to be a measured and thinking person, but sometimes you have a fever, sometimes you have a desire to do the best possible, but I’m also passionate, and if I’m not passionate, it’s not me, ”he expressed.
“The only circumstance was that of 2015 (as DT of the Tri), which carried a significant personal drag and exploded in my head, but after that there was never a hit situation, Reasons, loss of concentration, yes, that of having insulted a referee (Marc Antoni Ortiz) when he was leaving the stadium, which I also said nonsense to the media who asked me when I it should have followed, and these are the fevers that will suddenly hurt you, ”he added.
“But of each and every one of them I have paid my consequences, they have not been in debt either, they cannot say ‘ah, they forgave them’, they have never forgiven me anything !, they have charged me my debts, these nonsense that I have done I have paid, I am not in debt, at no time did they give me a second chance, they were all punctual and were paid, with fines or with these circumstances of running out of work to look for this pretext, then unfortunately this has been my career, I will continue to think that I need to be much more measured, to think about what the team needs within the track and that I don’t need a leader who is doing that ”.