Mexico City – After a pause of almost two months, the MX League returns this weekend with the first date of the Opening 2025 tournament. The Toluca champion He will seek to defend his crown before other serious contenders.
From the hand of his Argentine coach Antonio Mohamed, the Red Devils They finished a 5 -year drought without titles by beating America, who stayed on the edge of becoming the second Mexican tetrampion in history.
The Toluca brought back to his best players to try to get the two -time championship to reach 12 titles, drawing Chivas as the second most laureate team in the country.
But the Red Devils are not alone in their aspirations.
Cruz Azul starts as a favorite
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After shipping in a final and then in a semifinal against America, the leadership of Cruz Azul surprised to cease Uruguayan coach Vicente Sánchez, who led them to the title of the Concacaf Champions League.
Sánchez was replaced by the Argentine Nicolás Larcamón, who will seek to give the Blues their first championship since the Clausura 2021.
The machine has been one of the most regular teams in Mexico in the last three tournaments. In 2024 he was the one who added the most points and was barely awarded with a million dollars for that achievement, but he lacks to be crowned in the League.
Larcamón inherits a large part of that template, but reinforced with the arrival of the Argentine steering wheel José Paradela and Jeremy Márquez, who was cut from the Mexican team prior to the Gold Cup.
Cruz Azul continues in negotiations with Serbian striker Luka Jovic, but first he must unsubscribe to a foreign that could be the Greek Giorgos Giakoumakis, who has not surrendered in his passage through the club.
“We want to be a team that represents history and hobby,” said Larcamón. “We want that dominant and leading team to be.”
And they have everything to be.
The Chivas want to resurface
After several tournaments of failed experiments with their coaches and few efforts to seriously underpin the workforce, Chivas’s leadership does not want to allow Toluca to match them in titles.
After a long search, the Guadalajara chose Gabriel Milito as his coach. The Argentine, who will replace Gerardo Espinoza, was runner -up of the Copa Libertadores last year with Atlético Mineiro and will be the fourth coach of the team in the last two years.
On the field, Milito can work with several new faces such as the steering wheel. Richy Ledezma, who separated from PSV Eindhoven, of striker Efraín Álvarez, Mexican selected in the Gold Cup and Brian González, a side that stood out with Pachuca in recent years.
“I came to Chivas to try to grow and grow the team, I see this as an important challenge,” said Milito. “The goals in a club as big as this are clear: we want to make a winning team as quickly as possible.”
Chivas is not champion from the 2017 Clausura Tournament.
What is America aspire
The Azulcrema team lived a first semester in which it failed in all its goals, failed to be crowned in the Concacaf Champions League, nor in the domestic league and as if that were not enough, it lost the possibility of going to the Club World Cup by losing a playful game against the LAFC.
The owner Emilio Azcárraga promised great changes to improve the results, but so far the leadership has only completed a couple of signings of Mexican players with potential, but do not solve the problems of the team, especially those of the lack of goal.
America also saw the Chilean flyer Diego Valdés and the Uruguayan Brian Rodríguez has offers to emigrate as well.
The transfer market is still open until September, but if the Eagles do not reinforce better, it will hardly reach them to compete with others such as Cruz Azul and the Toluca champion, among others.
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Pumas reinvents itself
One of Pumas’ historical stamps was to support his young players to compete for more talented templates, but despair for the lack of titles since the Clausura 2011 seems to have changed that philosophy.
The university students bet on the signing market for the Welshman Aaron Ramsey, who at 34 was close to retirement, but accepted the offer to try to reach the 2026 World Cup.
In addition to Ramsey, Pumas tries to specify the arrival of the Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, a 39 -year -old veteran who has a contract with the Newell’s Old Boys of Argentina.
Officially, in addition to Ramsey, Pumas has only signed the Colombian side Álvaro Angulo and with his current payroll it is complicated that the team can end that drought of championships.
In Monterrey, the other candidates
After what was shown in the Club World Cup, where he left the group stage and then fight against Borussia Dortmund, the expectations are great for the Monterrey directed by the Spanish Domenec Torrent.
Torrent relieved the Argentine Martín Demichelis and weighing not to sign anyone, in a few weeks he gave a different face to the team.
Monterrey has barely had rest and that could play against him.
His city neighbor did not stay crossed and completed the arrival of Argentine Ángel Correa, from Atlético de Madrid.
Correa, 30, was a world champion of Qatar 2022 and reinforces a tigers that will return to the French scorer André-Pierre Gignac, injured much of the first semester.
The two teams in the north of the country also seem ready to contend for a title that the Rayados have been denied since the 2019 Opening already tigers since the Clausura 2023.
* By Carlos Rodríguez / AP
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