The Eagles of America announced this Thursday in a press release the appointment of the Argentine Fernando Ortiz as interim coach for “the following commitments” of the Clausura tournament of Mexican soccer.
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Ortizwho replaces his compatriot Santiago Solariwas in charge of the U-20 squad and in his first tournament he had the youth squad in eighth place in the Clausura with 13 points.
The native of Cordova will lead a coaching staff in which he will have as technical assistants Raul Lara and Peter Thelemaque and as physical trainers to Paolo Pacione and Francis Martinez.
Fernando Ortiz will have the task of removing from the last place of the classification the Americawho commanded Solari they won one game, drew three and lost four to add six points in the first eight days of the tournament.
negative streak
The Eagles They are on a losing streak of four games without a win, two setbacks and a couple of draws in a row against the Pumas UNAM and against him Queretarothis last result obtained last Tuesday in the eighth day that meant the last game of Solari as a strategist for the capital team.
Ortiz44 years old, played in the America as a central defender in the Clausura 2009 and participated in 15 duels in which he scored.
At Americathe Argentine manager will have to restore his confidence and exploit all the virtues of a squad that has the Chilean as one of its figures Diego Valdes.
Roger Martinez, Ochoa…
In addition to Valdes, Ortiz has at its disposal footballers among which the Spanish stand out Alvaro Fidalgothe Paraguayan Richard Sanchezthe Colombian Roger Martinez and the goalkeeper William Ochoastarter in the Mexican team.
the debut of Ortiz on the bench of America will be given this Saturday when the Eagles visit the Monterey on the ninth day of the Clausura.
In that duel, Monterey will also premiere technical, Victor Manuel Vucetichwho replaced Javier Aguirre.
