Mexico’s New Manager confirmed
As we reported a few weeks back Sven-Goran Eriksson has been confirmed as the new Head coach for Mexico’s national soccer team.
Former England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was named as the new coach of Mexico on Tuesday.
Eriksson, sacked by English Premier League Manchester City on Monday, was approved at a meeting of the Mexican Football Federation’s executive committee, comprising the owners of the 18 first division clubs.
‘It’s unanimous. Eriksson has been accepted by all the owners,’ Jorge Vergara, president of the Guadalajara club, told reporters. The 60-year-old Swede, who replaces Hugo Sanchez, will be in charge until the 2010 World Cup. Sanchez was fired in March after the Under-23 side, whom he also coached, failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. Since then, former Under-17 coach Jesus Ramirez has been in charge on a temporary basis.
Mexico’s strong hold as the top nation in the CONCACAF Region has been threatened lately and Hugo Sanchez was supposed to be the man to take them back to the top. However the former Real Madrid star wasn’t up to the challenge and now gives way to Eriksson. Despite some rumblings from the players in the squad opposed to the hiring of a European manager Eriksson is a good hire with lots of experience and more success than Mexico has enjoyed recently. Perhaps he is the man to take Mexico past the Quarter-finals in the World Cup, since it hasn’t happened before.
