Ricardo Ferretti has gone from light to shadow in less than 12 months. After having built a decade of titles and records with tigers Between 2010 and 2021, currently, the Brazilian coach sinks with the Bravos de Juárez, a team that occupies the last place in the general table of Clausura 2022 and with which he accumulates the worst effectiveness percentage of his career on the bench.
Juarez FC They are bottom of the table after 12 games with only eight of 36 possible points, product of two wins, two draws and eight losses. Since Ferretti took over as coach of the border team in June 2021, he has directed 29 games and has lost 17; his point effectiveness (only six wins and six draws in that span) is 27.59%, the lowest in his 30-year career as coach.
“I feel sad, frustrated, I seek every day with my coaching staff, physical trainer and players how to reverse this, but not having a positive result things are increasing. I seek not to lose stability so that the players have the confidence and peace of mind to go to the games and look for the best both individually and collectively, but I feel very bad for being responsible”, he admitted. Ferretti after their last defeat, 0-1 against Pumas during matchday 12 of the Closure 2022.
Juarez FC It is the sixth team that Ferretti manages in the MX Leaguein a career that began with Pumas in September 1991. Since then he has remained active and has never been fired before the end of a tournament, despite the fact that he had streaks of less than 50% effectiveness with Pumas in his second stage (46.5% between 2006 and 2010) and with Tigres also in its second stage (49.3% in the first half of 2006).
However, after the lack of results with Bravos, he himself has resigned from the board headed by Alejandra De la Vega, but the border club has retained him.
“For my part, I do not feel calm. My resignation is from the last tournament (Apertura 2021), it is not from now. I have not had any message from the board, on the contrary, the message is one of total support, but you know perfectly well, because I am not a youngster, that the situation can change game after game”, Ferretti commented at the beginning of March of this year .
The start of Clausura 2022, his second tournament under the command of Juárez FC, looked hopeful when he achieved two victories in his first three games (at home against Necaxa and away from Atlético de San Luis), however, as of day 4 On February 9, they have gone nine games without a victory, of which seven are defeats and the most serious thing is that five of them were at home.
Because of this, Juarez FC It ranks last in the percentage table for the 2021-22 season, with only five games remaining in the regular phase. The Bravos have 97 points in their last six tournaments and are currently behind Xolos de Tijuana (104 points) and Mazatlán FC (110).
If they remain in the fund, Bravos would be required to pay 80 million pesos to Liga MX in order to stay in the first division for the 2022-23 season. Just at the close of 2020-21, Juarez FC he paid $50 million for finishing third-worst quotient, so he would be paying $130 million over the span of one summer to the next just as a fine for poor performance.
Of their last five games in Clausura 2022, the next three look like the most complicated for Juárez FC: visit to América, at home against the surprising Pachuca and visit to Toluca. It will close at home against Mazatlán FC and with one last visit to Querétaro in the search to clear the fines of the percentage.
Ricardo Ferretti closed the Apertura 2021 tournament, his first with Juarez FC, with nine defeats, his worst figure since the 2005 Apertura, when he directed Monarcas Morelia; those are the only two seasons in which “Tuca” has finished the regular phase with more than eight lost games. If you add one more disaster within the last five dates of Clausura 2022, you will tie that mark; if you add two, you will live your worst record.
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