Pachuca, Mexico.- The Argentine Diego Cocacoach of the Atlas de Guadalajara, asserted this Sunday that achieving the bi-championship of the MX League and the title of Champion of Champions is madness that he has yet to digest.
“We are proud of this title and because we also won the Champion of Champions; Obtaining three titles in one year is crazy that we still have to digest, ”the coach boasted after his squad was crowned in the Grita México Clausura 2022 of Liga MX against Pachuca.
Coca, who in the 2021 Apertura led Atlas to break 70 years without winning a league title, now made his team the third team to obtain a two-time championship in the Mexican championship in short tournaments. As the Atlas was monarch of the Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022, they also received the Champion of Champions trophy for the 2021-2022 season.
The Atlas won 2-0 in the first leg of last Thursday’s final; Pachuca triumphed in this second leg 2-1, but the Clausura 2022 title of the MX League it was for the Atlas thanks to the total score of 3-2. In the game, the Tuzos scored through the Ecuadorian Romario Ibarra and the Argentine Nicolás Ibáñez. The Argentine Julio Furch scored a penalty for the visitors. Seven minutes from the end, Ecuadorian Aníbal Chalá, from Atlas, was sent off.
Diego Coca He detailed what was the key so that his squad could repeat as monarch. “The first thing is to have intelligent players, with personality and then see the need of the team, that’s what we did. We suffered a lot, it was very hard, but now the people in Guadalajara are happy. I rescue the will that we never gave anything up for lost, ”he mentioned.
Happy for his goal, the Argentine Julius Furch He explained what was decisive in the victory in the first leg to obtain the championship. “We made the difference in the first game. Today’s goal served to reassure us, but the credit goes to the people who supported us throughout the championship. Luckily, the penalty came in and served to take us the title”, detailed the striker.
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