Guadalajara /
The Atlas already has a technician. It is about the Argentine, Diego Cocca, who will be announced this afternoon as the new red-black strategist to replace Rafael Puente Jr.
The former Atlas defender has already reached an agreement and it will be presented in the coming days, as it is a profile that the club and the League already know and that has even been with Grupo Orlegi in Santos Laguna.
Cocca arrives, an ex-red-black
“As for profile we feel that we require an address headed by a coach that he already has certain hours of flight, of experience, that he has been able to live complex environments, adversities and overcome them, if it may be that he has some knowledge of Mexican soccer, we are around in terms of profile ”, he assured Mediotiempo the president of the Atlas, Pedro Portilla White.
Cocca, who will seek to amend the path that he left more than evil Rafael River BridgeHe knows the club since he played from 1999 to 2001 and managed Santos Laguna in 2011.
“No, there are not many options with these characteristics, it is not easy, and that is why we took on the task of defining a little more the profile in front of the environment and there are not many alternatives, it is not an easy or simple job, but we want to be faithful to what we believe the institution needs at this time, “added the leader.
The Argentine was champion as DT in 2014 with Independiente and his last team was Rosario Central.
Cocca has already reached the agreement and it will be a matter of hours before they make it official.
“We are working with alternatives, there is something we can advance, it is important for us to define this issue this week and we are working hard,” said the leader.
Because they will barely make it official, against Toluca will be Rubén Duarte, interim DT of Atlas.
It hurt the board to run Rafa Puente
Pedro Portilla, accepted that it was painful to run to Rafael Puente with whom he said, he has both personal and professional appreciation
“A difficult, complicated situation, because there is a professional and personal appreciation for Rafa and his coaching staff, there is recognition of his way of living and feeling, of expressing football, there is recognition of everyone’s work. It hurt us to have to cut this process, we were very excited about that result in Toluca that the team wins and cuts the string of losses, unfortunately the credit of this process had been spent in a large part in the previous tournament, we started with 2 losses and that made continuity more difficult, “he acknowledged.
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