Thursday, April 2, 2009

Gone or not?

Expanding a bit on the story that Mural ran accompanying the cover below, here's a brief translation of the story:

Sven-Goran Eriksson's exit from the national team will be announced on April 27 during the owners' meeting, to give formality to the situation and probably decide his successor.

After the 3-1 loss in Honduras, the pressure became too much for the FMF leadership. The press conference with the manager had just finished and the calls began to put the backup plan in place, the one that federation officials acknowledged having a week ago just in case.

And the time has come. Justino Compean, president of the FMF, asked director of national teams Nestor De La Torre to take the first steps and, in plain view outside the locker room, the ex-vice president of Guadalajara began making phone calls meanwhile the official waited. Sven-Goran was not around at that time.

The rest of the story goes on to talk about how Sven had a talk with the federation, and that after the team bus left the officials continued making calls, and mentions Javier Aguirre and Jose Manuel "Chepo" De La Torre as replacements.

All that seems like a giant leap of faith, to assume that everything that went on after the game would lead anyone to believe that the manger will be gone for sure. Maybe he'll be gone, but it doesn't seem as if that determination was made yet.

Stories are breaking that there will be an emergency meeting today to determine Sven's future, but determining one's future and saying one's future is non-existent are two different things.

Just seems like irresponsible journalism.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

so gone

Anonymous said...

the dream ends... bring in the company men...

Anonymous said...

aguirre's in, it's all over mexican media

Anonymous said...

This is embrassing,first Hugo, then Chucho, now Sven will be replaced? That will be four managers in about 3 years.

Anonymous said...

Well it was just annouced, Sven has been fired.

Anonymous said...

And now he is officially gone