Three days after praising the future of Mexican soccer, Javier Aguirre quits.
We will miss him because he along with Marcelo Bielsa were the most passionate coaches out on the sidelines, their faces mirroring their emotions, in constant motion, shouting instructions to players, haranguing the linesmen and the referees.
“The first person responsible is me. I believe that I have to resign my job,” Aguirre said. “It’s the most honest solution, the fairest and it’s something I have to do.”
It appears he was not going to stick around even if Mexico had proceeded further.
He might have paid the price for his outspokenness. In an interview last February, he was less interested about talking soccer, instead launching into a tirade over the country’s future and it’s soaring crime rate fueled by its deadly narcotics trade.
” Aguirre used the same interview to say he would not remain in Mexico after the World Cup, regardless of the outcome, preferring to coach again in Europe, where his family lives.”
He was forced to make an apology after that interview as the players in the squad rallied around him but he was on thin ice.
Club America coach, Jesus “Chucho” Ramirez who coached Giovani Dos Santos and Carlos Vela to Mexico’s triumphant U17 World Cup title in 2005 might be the frontrunner to take over the job.