Victor AlvarezReading: 2 min.
Diego Cocca will no longer direct Tigres in the Clausura 2023 and his future is with the Mexican National Team.
The club tigers officially announced that the strategist Diego Cocca He is out of the team, after he will take the reins of the Mexican team towards the 2026 World Cup.
Diego Cocca He came to the felines after passing through Atlas, a team with which he made history as he led the Rojinegros to the championship, ending a 70-year streak without winning a title.
Since the 1950-51 season, the Jalisco team had not been champions, but with the helmsman at the helm they ended the drought in the 2021 Apertura Tournament by defeating the León.
The strategist maintained the team’s inertia and this allowed them to achieve the two-time Mexican soccer championship by being crowned in the Clausura 2022, after beating Pachuca in the last instance, but for the Apertura 2022 the results were not what they expected and ended up leaving that institution.
For him Closing 2023the cats hired the helmsman in search of being crowned in the Liga MXafter they failed to do so when they were under the command of Miguel Herrera.
The last championship won by the UANL team was in the 2019 Clausura Tournament, when they were under the command of coach Ricardo Ferretti, with whom they won five League titles, one Concacaf Champions League and alternative tournaments like the Champion of Champions.
Now, the departure of Cocca is announced, the board will look for a replacement and for now the former players Juninho, Marco Antonio “Chima” Ruiz and Marcos Ayala will remain as interims.
The cats will face Pumas this weekend on the sixth day of the Clausura 2023, in which they will fight to remain undefeated, after so far they have three wins and two draws, which keep them in third place in the table overall with 11 points.
