Mexico’s Brazil 2014 World Cup coach, Miguel Herrera, was announced on Tuesday as coach of the Atlante Colts, who will return to the First Division in the Apertura Mexican soccer tournament.
“Welcome Piojo! Miguel Herrera takes over the helm of our Potros de Hierro. Experience, character and azulgrana DNA to take Atlante to the top,” the board wrote on its social networks.
In search of revenge
Miguel Herrera, 58, returns to Atlante, with whom he was champion as a player in 1993 and nine years later made his debut as a coach.
Los Potros will take the place of Mazatlán in the First Division, in a long-awaited return of tens of thousands of fans who followed the team, champions in 1947, 1993 and 2007.
A two-time league champion with América, a year after coaching in Brazil, Herrera was fired from the national team for a fight with a commentator.
After which he coached at the club level in Mexico until last year when he was called to coach Costa Rica.
With everything going for them in the CONCACAF qualifiers, in which Mexico, the United States and Canada did not compete, the Costa Ricans showed ups and downs in their performance under the guidance of ‘Piojo’.
They were knocked out of the World Cup, which cost the coach his job.
He takes on the challenge of bringing Atlante back into the limelight
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In recent weeks, the coach has been working as an analyst for a television network, a job he will have to give up in order to return to the bench.
The Colts’ board of directors has set the goal of being a protagonist in the Apertura tournament.
After more than a decade of absence in the First Division.
He was a champion as a soccer player in 1993
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Miguel Herrera will be presented in the last hours with Atlante.
After which he will have an arduous task to assemble a team with quality players capable of competing on equal footing in the Mexican tournament.
With information from EFE
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