Cruz Azul head coach Vicente Sanchez celebrated the workforce’s 5-0 conquer 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 match in February, after head coach Martin Anselmi left the publish abruptly to affix FC Porto. He managed to guide the membership to 3rd place on the Liga MX desk with 33 factors and a 9-6-2 (W-D-L) file earlier than reaching the match’s semifinal and profitable the CCC trophy.
“Worth comes from numbers; it was a semester the place the numbers communicate 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 title, they usually accomplish that as a result of they really feel represented on the pitch,” stated Sánchez following the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup closing. “I do not know the long run; I reside at some point at a time, and I do not know what’s going to occur tomorrow.
“The choice is not as much as me. There are lots of superb issues. After we took over the workforce, we had one level, we have been 16, we barely had a break, it was Tuesday and Saturday. We performed in each tournaments; we have been the workforce that performed probably 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 guide Cruz Azul.
“I am grateful to Velázquez for placing his belief in me, and we responded with this title,” Sanchez stated. “Immediately, Cruz Azul is on the prime of the match. I am very comfortable, after a semester of onerous work. Returning the work to the one who trusted me is the perfect factor that may occur to you. Immediately, we gave Cruz Azul the title, and it is the perfect factor that may occur. I reside for at this time. I am very comfortable.”
Regardless of the uncertainty, membership captain Ignacio Rivero insisted the gamers stand with Sanchez.
“[It means] loads, for everybody, not only for Vicente, who at this time is a coach who can proceed with us or not,” Rivero stated. “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 probably 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 gained the title since 2013-14.