Andrés Lillini must face Pumas UNAM next Sunday at Mazatlan FC, the institution that replaced the one that was his promoter and which, in short, allows him to be today one of the 17 coaches of Guard1anes closing tournament in Liga MX 2021.
In fact, the Argentine strategist refers to a notorious condition every time he is asked about Morelia and Álvaro Dávila, today president of Cruz Azul, who at the beginning of the century knew how to occupy the same position in Monarcas.
May be, Andrés LilliniHe even dared to say publicly that the manager felt like his own father, because he trusted him when he was a simple employee of Banco Nación de Argentina, who could hardly be a coach in his free time with children up to 10 years old. in a club on the outskirts of Santa Fe.
It was 2001 and, in the midst of a deep economic crisis in his country, the strategist came Morelia to commit ourselves to take over the leadership of a basic force structure that did not exist until then.
Commitment and devotion to the youngest – an attitude that stands out today Puma– connected with the missing person Monarchs Morelia, reached such a visceral level of affinity that he even considered it to be “a family” in an interview with the program “Historias de la Vida”.
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That experience that strengthened him as a coach, catapulted him to become the coordinator of the lower divisions of the Boca Juniors Athletic Club between 2007 and 2011, and then came to CSKA Moscow until 2014. Later, his work as Mario’s assistant will come. Sciaqcua of San Luis de Quillota and Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy, among others, to later take over as director of The basic forces of the cougars.
He Sunday, January 17 at 12:00 to University Olympic Stadium, already as head of the main campus of National University Club, Andrés Lillini, even if he has mixed feelings, he will try to make his team keep the three points against Mazatlan Soccer Club, to continue with the classification objective at League from 2021. Guard1anes.