The “Chivas” from Guadalajaraone of the most popular and award-winning teams in Mexican soccer, dismissed the technical director this Thursday Marcelo Michel Leanodue to poor results during the Clausura-2022 tournament, in which seven other coaches have already been fired.
“After the unfortunate results of the team in the Clausura 2022 tournament, we inform that the decision was made to conclude the process of Marcelo Michel Leaño as technical director of the first team,” Guadalajara said in a statement.
The rojiblanco team will be under the interim command of Ricardo Cadena, a former player of the club and current technical director of Tapatío, a subsidiary team of Guadalajara in the MX Expansion League (second division).
The dismissal of Michel Leaño, a 35-year-old Mexican, comes after Chivas’ 3-1 loss at home against Monterrey’s “Rayados” on Wednesday in a pending match of the twelfth day.
After that fall, the fifth of the “Flock” in the tournament, the fans that attended the akron stadium He again demanded the coach’s departure with the cry “Leaño out, Leaño out!”.
The “Chivas” of Guadalajara is in the fourteenth place in the table with 14 pointsoutside the qualifying zone for the playoffs, with four days to go before the regular phase of the tournament ends.
Michel Leaño assumed command of the “Chivas” in the last tournament Opening-2021 and in total he directed them in 21 games with a balance of five wins, nine draws and seven losses.
Leaño is the eighth coach fired in the Clausura-2022 tournament after the Uruguayans Leonardo Ramos (Queretaro) and Marcelo Mendez (Atletico San Luis), the Argentines Paul Guede (Necaxa) and Santiago Solari (Latin), Portuguese Peter Caixinha (Santos), the Mexican Javier Aguirre (Monterrey) and Spanish Benat San Jose (Mazatlan).