Hugo Sánchez

Hugo Sánchez Márquez (born July 11, 1958 in Mexico City) is a former football (soccer) striker, considered the best Mexican player ever.

As a coach

After four seasons coaching the UNAM Pumas, the team that saw his birth as a soccer player, Hugo Sanchez obtained the Clausura 2004 Tournament of the Mexican League, defeating the Chivas of Guadalajara in the final match.

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UNAM Pumas - Chivas of Guadalajara

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He has expressed a desire to coach Real Madrid, the club where he starred for much of his career, and also one of the best, richest and most famous teams in the world.

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On September 1, 2004, Sánchez reached another milestone as a coach driving his soccer team, UNAM Pumas, to beat Real Madrid 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in the Spanish capital city.

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September 1 - 2004 - Santiago Bernabéu stadium

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Later that year, Hugo became the first coach to win two consecutive titles in Mexico's relatively new short season format ("Torneos cortos"), beating the Monterrey Rayados in the league championship series.

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In 2002, after Javier Aguirre resigned as Mexico's national team coach, Hugo voiced his candidacy to coach the team, but members of Mexico's soccer federation saw Hugo as too inexperienced at the time (he had not won any sort of championship or had major success as a coach at that moment) and eventually hired former Argentine goalkeeper (member of Argentina's 1978 World Cup champion squad) and seasoned coach Ricardo Lavolpe as Aguirre's replacement. La Volpe and Sánchez have been embroiled in a war of words since then, with Hugo expressing his obvious discontent of being shunned for the coaching job.

Related Topics:
Javier Aguirre - Ricardo Lavolpe

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