A few weeks before the Liga MX teams resume activities for the 2022 Apertura preseason, the La Noria board would have already closed the deal with your new technician
Diego Aguirre would be the new technical director of Cruz Azul (Photo: Instagram/@oficialdiegoaguirre)
The Machine Cement plant of Cruz Azul would already have a new technical director for the Opening 2022< /b> of the Liga MX. It would be Diego Aguirre, after Juan Reynoso was removed from his post at the end of Clausura 2022, the director of La Noria would have already found his replacement who will take the reins of the team for the next championship with the illusion of recovering the competitive level of the club.
The Uruguayan coach would be announced as thenew coach in the absence of an official statement from the board. On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 25, different national media reported that Aguirre had already closed a deal with the celestial. After the negotiations they had with the 56-year-old coach, Cruz Azul had already convinced him to come to Mexico and compete in the 2022 Apertura.
Jorge Ramos, ESPN sportswriter,was one of the first to confirm the signing. It was through his official Twitter account that he confirmed Aguirre’s arrival at Cruz Azul; the sports journalist only published a photograph of the coach and accompanied it with asticker alluding to the Máquina Cementera. Immediately, the followers of the La Noria team began to debate in relation to the first signing of the team in the summer market.
Diego Aguirre was a Uruguayan striker (Photo: Instagram/@oficialdiegoaguirre)
Because Diego Aguirre is not as well known in Mexican soccer the quality of the hiring made by the board was questioned because among the other options that were around the position were Juan Francisco Palencia,Rubén Omar Romano, Hugo Sánchez and José Manuel Chepo de la Torre and there was even talk that Ricardo Tuca Ferretti would be an option for the cement workers .
However, the native of Montevideo was chosen to debut in the First Division of Mexico. To the surprise of the sky-blue fans, the coach’s welcome was positive , because even though he has no experience in Liga MX , the public preferred him over the other candidates who sounded like the team.
Diego Aguirre would arrive at Cruz Azul in Replacement of Juan Reynoso (Photo: Twitter/@LigaBBVAMX)
“In the end they say that the chosen one is Diego Aguirre and the truth seems to me to be a better option than Romano or Palencia”, “Welcome Diego Aguirre to the machine, we are going for the TENTH with Cruz Azul” and “I hope Diego Aguirre achieves things in my Blue Cross”, were some of the comments that went viral on social networks.
It should be noted that so far the official account of the blue team has not made no statement about it, it will be in a matter of hours or days for him to share it publicly with the press and his fans.
Who is Diego Aguirre?
He began his career as technical director until 2002 with Plaza Colonia de his country (Photo: Atlético-MG)
Also known as La FieraHe was a professional soccer player who played as a striker. With a brief and low-profile career he debuted in 1983 at Liverpool in Uruguay . It was with Club Atlético Peñarol that he was proclaimed champion of the Copa Libertadores de América in 1987. He retired in 1999 after having played in teams such as São Paulo and Internacional from Brazil and with Independiente from Argentina .
He began his career as technical director until 2002 with Plaza Colonia in his country, but the club that catapulted him to more South American teams was with Peñarol, the same in which he was proclaimed champion as a soccer player, repeated the feat and lifted the Uruguayan Championship cup.
From then on he had the opportunity to travel outside the American continent and try luck at clubs like Al-Rayyan andAl-Gharafa, both from the Qatar league. Although he has never worked in Liga MX, Cruz Azul would be his first project and he would have the responsibility of competing for a tenth championship, a goal that Reynoso no longer achieved.