Ferdinand Ironone of the best Spanish defenders in history, assured this Thursday that Chivas del Guadalajara, a Mexican team where he was recently appointed sports director, is similar to Real Madrid.
“It is said that Madrid is the team of a country and it is the team of the people and of a country, that we are almost the same,” said the merengue legend in a meeting with a group of Guadalajara fans who had the opportunity . for him to ask.
iron, who as manager helped Spain win the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 World Cup, admits that Guadalajara should be the team everyone in Mexico wants to sign for because Madrid is in their country.
“When I came to Real Madrid, I was young and it was the team of my dreams and the most famous in Spain, where everyone wants to go and if you transfer it, it is the club with the highest percentage of Mexicans, that is. our pride and If we have to resemble each other in anything, it is in that; both clubs have great fans behind them, people who are hurt by defeat and celebrate victory”.
The Guadalajara andIt is the second most successful team in its country with 12 league titles, less than one of its biggest rivals, Águilas del América, where it disputes the status of the most popular team in Mexico.
The directors of Chivas They calculate that there are more than 40 million fans in the world, most of them in Mexico and the United States.
The coach of Spain in Russia 2018 said that another team that resembles Guadalajara in Spanish football is the Athletic Bilbao.
The Bilbao team, which will face Guadalajara in December, usually plays with footballers born in the Basque country, while Chivas has only Mexican players.
“The problem with Athletic is, in the Basque country, there are only three million, three and a half million people, in Mexico we are 120 million. It’s like an identity to me, it’s special,” said Hierro.
The former defender also compared his process as a manager at Chivas to what he experienced during his first spell with the Spanish team, where he won the European Championship and the World Cup.
“This is very similar when I was a manager there in my country for four years. The only way to grow is this, we cannot buy players from abroad, they are all Mexicans. A team cannot buy players from abroad because it is for a passport and you have to play with it,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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