The Spanish Ferdinand Iron, sports director of the Chivas of the Guadalajara of Mexican soccer, visited this Tuesday for the first time the installations of your new team.
Las Chivas, one of the two most popular clubs in the country, shared on their social networks images and details from the itinerary of Hierro, who as manager helped Spain win the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 World Cup.
Hierro arrived last Monday at Guadalajara and a day later he attended Verde Valle, headquarters of Chivas, where he spoke with the directors of the different areas of the club “to know the structure of Guadalajara and its objectives”.
Also, the winner of three European Cups as a Real Madrid defender spoke “briefly” with three first team footballers, among them the defender Antonio Briseño, world champion sub’17 with Mexico in 2011.
Hierro, Spain’s coach at the 2018 World Cup, greeted the entire Tapatío squad, the main affiliate of the Chivas that plays in the Mexican second division.
“He made it clear to the Tapatío players that he will be very attentive to them, that the door to the first team is open and wished them luck for the duel against Mineros in the playoff of the Apertura 2022 tournament of the Liga Expansión (official name of the second category),” Guadalajara said on its social networks.
Fernando HIerro, on his first day as sports director of Chivas
The former captain of Real Madrid is in the planning of the Closure 2023, in which the Chivas will debut next January.
His main task for the new competition is to define the new coach Rojiblanco, for which he has already defined a profile that he shared in an interview with the Guadalajara press team.
“We need a coach who knows how to work with young people who come from the basic forces, who have worked and know the Mexican league, who have a mentality, who have worked in the big leagues in Europe. They are the characteristics that the person we are looking for must have and we already have it in mind”.
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In addition, Iron must define the highs and lows of team players that by tradition only plays with Mexicans.
The Chivas are looking for their thirteenth title to tie with its greatest rival, the Águilas del América, which with 13 championships is the most successful club in Mexico.
Guadalajara won its last league trophy in the Closing 2017.
