Cruz Azul head coach Vicente Sanchez celebrated the workforce’s 5-0 triumph over the Vancouver Whitecaps to win the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup earlier than including his future with the Liga MX membership stays in query.
Sanchez took over as Cruz Azul interim supervisor amid the 2025 Liga MX Clausura event in February, after head coach Martin Anselmi left the publish abruptly to affix FC Porto. He managed to steer the membership to 3rd place on the Liga MX desk with 33 factors and a 9-6-2 (W-D-L) document earlier than reaching the event’s semifinal and successful the CCC trophy.
“Worth comes from numbers; it was a semester the place the numbers converse for themselves. I worth myself extremely as a result of God positioned me there. I am grateful as a result of the followers chanted my identify, and so they accomplish that as a result of they really feel represented on the pitch,” mentioned Sánchez following the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup closing. “I do not know the longer term; I reside sooner or later at a time, and I do not know what is going to occur tomorrow.
“The choice is not as much as me. There are a lot of superb issues. Once we took over the workforce, we had one level, we had been 16, we barely had a break, it was Tuesday and Saturday. We performed in each tournaments; we had been the workforce that performed essentially the most video games in the complete semester. We reached the semifinals and completed undefeated within the Concacaf.”
He later expressed gratitude to membership president Victor Velazquez for permitting him the chance to steer Cruz Azul.
“I am grateful to Velázquez for placing his belief in me, and we responded with this title,” Sanchez mentioned. “In the present day, Cruz Azul is on the high of the event. I am very pleased, after a semester of laborious work. Returning the work to the one who trusted me is the very best factor that may occur to you. In the present day, we gave Cruz Azul the title, and it is the very best factor that may occur. I reside for at present. I am very pleased.”
Regardless of the uncertainty, membership captain Ignacio Rivero insisted the gamers stand with Sanchez.
“[It means] quite a bit, for everybody, not only for Vicente, who at present is a coach who can proceed with us or not,” Rivero mentioned. “I am not the one who can determine that, however properly, we’re very proud of him and properly, time will inform.”
Cruz Azul participant Lorenzo Faravelli echoed his teammates sentiment: “We defended Vicente on the pitch, and afterward, whether or not or not this occurs tomorrow is now not as much as us.”
Cruz Azul lifted the Concacaf Champions Cup for the seventh time in membership historical past, tying America for essentially the most within the competitors’s historical past. Regardless of its historic success in Concacaf’s elite membership competitors, it was the primary time Cruz Azul received the title since 2013-14.
