Heavy past and insecure future in Puebla

A team that does not enjoy financial solvency, cannot and could not afford to keep Santiago Ormeño, Omar Fernándezy Salvador Reyes on its squad

MEXICO – In its 77-year history, the Club Puebla It has had very few periods of sports and administrative stability within Mexican soccer and, not to be the exception, today the present begins to become uncertain for the upcoming 2021-2022 season.

A team that does not enjoy financial solvency, cannot and could not afford to keep on its staff: Santiago Ormeño, Omar Fernandez, Salvador Reyes, Maxi Perg and those that accumulate in the coming days.

His good semester helped the first 3 revalue in the market and the club could sell them at a better price and thus clean up its compromised finances as much as possible.

Now, coming from a season where Liguilla was classified twice and things were done as God intended, one would expect, in theory, adequate management from the administrative point of view.

Quite the opposite due to the unexpected departures of: Rodrigo Incera (former sports director) and Severiano García (former business director) bound for Atlético de San Luis.

I know from a good source that the escape of Incera and García did not go down well on the Ajusco television station, since they also worked for Mazatlán FC and in this way Benjamin Salinas lost two important bastions in its football organization chart.

The interference of TV Azteca in the Puebla since some years. Manuel Jiménez García appears as president of the team, although he is not the one who makes the important decisions in the Blue and White squad.

There is a technical director, but no sports director, there are confirmed sales, but no hires, only rumors. Once again uncertainty reigns in Angelopolis.

I had good, bad and worse with Mr. Bernat and the famous ‘Chiquillada’. The point is that while stability is not achieved for two years, semesters like this will be chickpeas pound for a hobby that claims, every six months, good dividends on the field.

It hurts that good times don’t last as long as possible. In the absence of 1 month to start the Apertura 2021, there is no substitute for Perg in the center and neither for Fernández and Ormeño up front, to name specific positions to reinforce.

I don’t even tell you about the project to build our own facilities. It will have been for the Elections 2021, the Pandemic and / or these managerial movements, but the project, necessary to consolidate the club, unfortunately went cold again.

Beyond Carlos Poblete, Nicolas Larcamón, as DT, who do you consult the preparation of the template? Rogelio Roa Will he have more power? Will Jiménez assume the throne? Is there a cover? Questions that today have no answers and meanwhile the clock continues ticking.

We will then see what happens to Puebla In the next weeks. If it manages to strengthen itself well and if it can put order in the administrative area. The past, as its history dictates, is heavy, while the future does not bode well.