Cruz Azul head coach Vicente Sanchez celebrated the staff’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 match in February, after head coach Martin Anselmi left the submit abruptly to hitch 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) report earlier than reaching the match’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 title, they usually achieve this as a result of they really feel represented on the pitch,” stated Sánchez following the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup last. “I do not know the long run; I stay at some point at a time, and I do not know what is going to occur tomorrow.
“The choice is not as much as me. There are various superb issues. Once we took over the staff, 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 staff that performed probably the most video games in your 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 stated. “Right this moment, Cruz Azul is on the prime of the match. I am very blissful, after a semester of onerous work. Returning the work to the one that trusted me is the very best factor that may occur to you. Right this moment, we gave Cruz Azul the title, and it is the very best factor that may occur. I stay for at this time. I am very blissful.”
Regardless of the uncertainty, membership captain Ignacio Rivero insisted the gamers stand with Sanchez.
“[It means] so much, 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 nicely, we’re very proud of him and nicely, 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 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.
