Sanchez’s Cruz Azul long run unsure after CCC win

Cruz Azul head trainer Vicente Sanchez celebrated the group’s 5-0 triumph over the Vancouver Whitecaps to win the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup earlier than including his long run with the Liga MX membership stays in query.

Sanchez took over as Cruz Azul meantime supervisor amid the 2025 Liga MX Clausura match in February, after head trainer Martin Anselmi left the submit unexpectedly to sign up for FC Porto. He controlled to guide the membership to 3rd position at the Liga MX desk with 33 issues and a 9-6-2 (W-D-L) report earlier than achieving the match’s semifinal and successful the CCC trophy.

“Value comes from numbers; it was a semester where the numbers speak for themselves. I value myself highly because God placed me there. I’m grateful because the fans chanted my name, and they do so because they feel represented on the pitch,” stated Sánchez following the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup ultimate. “I don’t know the future; I live one day at a time, and I don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

“The determination is not as much as me. There are many excellent issues. When we took over the group, we had one level, we have been 16, we slightly had a spoil, it used to be Tuesday and Saturday. We performed in each tournaments; we have been the group that performed essentially the most video games in all of the semester. We reached the semifinals and completed undefeated within the Concacaf.”

He later expressed gratitude to club president Victor Velazquez for allowing him the opportunity to lead Cruz Azul.

“I’m thankful to Velázquez for placing his consider in me, and we replied with this identify,” Sanchez said. “Today, Cruz Azul is on the most sensible of the match. I’m more than pleased, after a semester of exhausting paintings. Returning the paintings to the one who depended on me is the most efficient factor that may occur to you. Today, we gave Cruz Azul the identify, and it is the most efficient factor that may occur. I are living for nowadays. I’m more than pleased.”

Despite the uncertainty, club captain Ignacio Rivero insisted the players stand with Sanchez.

“[It means] so much, for everybody, no longer only for Vicente, who nowadays is a trainer who can proceed with us or no longer,” Rivero said. “I’m no longer the person who can make a decision that, however smartly, we’re more than pleased with him and smartly, time will inform.”

Cruz Azul player Lorenzo Faravelli echoed his teammates sentiment: “We defended Vicente at the pitch, and later on, whether or not or no longer this occurs the following day is now not as much as us.”

Cruz Azul lifted the Concacaf Champions Cup for the 7th time in membership historical past, tying America for essentially the most within the festival’s historical past. Despite its historic luck in Concacaf’s elite membership festival, it used to be the primary time Cruz Azul gained the identify since 2013-14.