Martino defended soccer in Mexico: “You can see the business”

Mexico will not modify the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar and that will use the departure of Gerardo Martino after almost four years at the helm of the selected team. Although in the run-up to the World Cup, the daddy He was criticized by the whole country from journalists, players and fans.

“The business is very noticeable. I’m not against the business because that’s where we live and we can’t survive without it. But I actually like something more equitable. That I, being a person that the only thing that interests me is football, have the capacity to accept the business that I don’t know and I don’t know where it is going, but I understand that it is needed for it to continue growing. But with a balance so as not to leave aside the football part, the growth of the boys, the work of minor divisions”started the daddy is Radio 780 Paraguay. And he added: “That football also have a plan, that it is not only to profit, to make money, that the business flourishes. That they do not let the football part die, that one day the business is going to die ”.

He also referred to the MX League and point: “In Mexico something particular happens: there are internal sales from club to club of soccer players that are worth 8 or 10 million dollars. It seems to me that it is balancing, listening to football people and those who know about the business. In South America we have it more incorporated, in Mexico this particularity occurs, It is a very strong country, there are very solid institutions that pay good money and then this happens that there are sales that are important but at the same time they are footballers that one says they have to go abroad and they do not have a European market. That hurts because he stays at home and the footballer doesn’t stop growing.”

Finally, he referred to the elimination of the Tri in Qatar: “I understand that we must have qualified second in the group. It was not the expected result, it is a failure for us because Mexico came from seven World Cups qualifying for the round of 16 and we have not achieved it. at least, to be able to continue with that trend and also the satisfaction of having competed well in the group”.