Hugo Sanchez

Hugo Sanchez is not only the best soccer player that this country has produced, he is also "the great widower" of Mexican soccer. The term comes from a class at university where a teacher encouraged questioning everything: "Look for the widow of power, she surely has something to say."

This role is perfectly played by the Pentapichichi: "The executives were the difficulty in my career as a player and as a coach," said Hugo to Récord. There is no episode in Mexican soccer that does not deserve his opinion, he is an authority on the ball.

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The former player of Pumas, America, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, to mention a few, is one of the biggest critics of the process that the Mexican National Team is going through under Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio. He has criticized his formula and has insistently asked for the Mexican bench to be occupied by a Mexican coach, giving examples of world powers such as Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and Italy: "I will always defend that the coach of the Mexican National Team must be Mexican since it is a transcendental position."

When Hugo directed the Mexican team (2006-2008), according to him, he presented a 12-year project that would conclude with a World Cup championship in the 2018 World Cup in Russia: "Indeed, my process as Mexico's coach was scheduled to be 12 years. It was planned for us to be World Cup champions or at least reach the final stages. The executives did not believe it, they thought I was crazy when I brought it to the table and they did not let me fulfill that process."

Sánchez's process as coach was marked by Mexico's elimination in the 2008 Pre-Olympic tournament, which would grant a place to compete for a medal in the Beijing Olympics. An episode that is still remembered as one of the great failures of Mexican soccer.

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The current sports commentator said that if his process had been respected, Mexico would be world champions today: "I would have had the opportunity to coach in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the place that Uruguay took would belong to Mexico, as long as I was there. We should have been semi-finalists, but they didn't let me get there. With that experience from South Africa, we would have reached Brazil aiming for a semi-final, maybe even the final, but perhaps without winning it, and for 2018 we would have been looking to lift the Cup."

If there's one thing we can accept in Hugol's controversial statements, it's that processes are not respected in Mexico and that is a big problem, but we don't know if Mexico would be in a position to compete for a World Cup championship today. Maybe we should ask our widower of power what method he would have used during those 12 years. Who knows, maybe he doesn't reveal it because he does not rule out taking control of the national team again.