2023-06-22 18:16:00
Rafa Ramos ESPN Deportes Digital Analyst Jun 22, 2023, 2:16 p.m. ET Reading: 3 min.
Jimmy Lozano’s El Tri seeks redemption on the field and with the fans
Rafa Ramos explains what the Mexican team is looking for in the Gold Cup and mentions the pressure from Concacaf that helped Diego Cocca leave.
HOUSTON — On Thursday, after the loss to United States, Diego Cocca was already fired. “This way, we are not going anywhere,” was the conclusion that same night, in a meeting at the Westin Hotel in Las Vegas between Juan Carlos Rodriguez, president of the FMF, and Ivar Sisniega.
– And if Juan Carlos beat Panama 7-0?
“He’s leaving anyway,” La Bomba replied. “This has no future.”
And the machinery began to move. Relentlessly.
Diego Cocca watches Mexico’s 3-0 loss to the United States.Getty
This is how a spokesperson for the Mexican Soccer Federation relates it. “It had nothing to do with the empty stadium against Panama, nor Concacaf.” That is, at least, the version from within the FMF, although it does not coincide with other information compiled by this reporter and exposed here.
Arriving in Mexico, Rodríguez undertook the task of interviewing and convincing Jaime Lozano. By Saturday everything was closed, according to the informant.
The video of Juan Carlos Rodríguez announcing the departure of Cocca and Rodrigo Ares de Parga was recorded on the same Sunday, before Mexico faced Panama.
“That Sunday two versions of that video were recorded. One in case Duilio Davino wanted to continue, and another in case he did not ”, explains the source. “But it was a decision made before the game against Panama.”
“Everything was a disaster. There were even problems with food, logistics, many things,” says the spokesperson.
In order to operate the dismissals of Cocca and Ares de Parga, a simultaneous operation had to be formed, to prevent one from putting the other on alert, and to avoid generating a reaction that got out of control.
“By hierarchy, by organization chart, I speak with Ares de Parga and you with Cocca,” ordered Juan Carlos Rodríguez to Sisniega. So it was. Simultaneously, the two were notified of their disaffiliation from the Mexican National Team on Monday.
By then, Jimmy Lozano had already summoned his work team, and the video that would be broadcast on Monday through the social networks of the Mexican Soccer Federation was already resting, impeccably edited, waiting to be released, explains the informant. of the FMF.
“You can spread what you want and what you create. I am only giving you the facts from the Mexican Soccer Federation,” the spokesperson told this reporter.
Between the black and white of the versions, without a doubt the performance of Mexico, this Sunday against Honduras, will allow us to know the intermediate and key points of all the versions about the dismissal of Cocca and the arrival of Lozano.
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