Saturday, November 16, 2024, 11:55
The match between Mexico and Honduras played this Friday ended in the worst possible way. A group of fans attacked the coach of the Mexican team, Javier Aguirre, with a can that caused a bleeding wound on the right side of his head. The team led by Aguirre, who is nicknamed the Vasco, due to his roots in Gernika and Ispaster, fell 2-0 to their rivals in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Nations League.
The Mexican Football Federation (FMF) expressed its “firm rejection” of violence and called on “everyone involved in football” to collaborate “to create a safe environment for everyone.” Also the Honduras coach, Reinaldo Rueda, showed his rejection of the attack, pointing out that “I am sad because (Aguirre) is a human being.”
“The party was damaged, all the effort that the boys made on the field was damaged, everyone gave themselves, with that integrity, the people enjoyed it and that there was such an incident (…) is very regrettable,” Rueda stressed. . The technical director expressed his apologies “to the entire Mexican delegation, to all the Mexican people and to Professor Aguirre.”
Aguirre, for his part, minimized the incident. The former coach of Mallorca, Osasuna and Espanyol, among other teams in the Spanish league, declared that “it’s football, nothing happens,” during the press conference, where he expressed his solidarity with the Hondurans affected by the tropical storm Sara that hits from the Thursday the country.
