Ricardo Antonio La Volpe has announced his retirement as technical director. The 'Bigotón' directed Toluca at the Apertura 2019 , this being his last club he commanded. F utside of Mexico was coach of Boca Juniors, Velez Sarsfield, Banfield, FC Pyramids of Egypt and Costa Rica was at the front of the national team.
La Volpe will continue his career in football as a sports director, as stated in an interview for ESPN : "I am choosing to be a sports director, I no longer want to direct. Age has passed me, that pressure has passed me. Today Ricardo La Volpe says "Where to? On the court. I don't get along well with journalists, I don't get along very well with professionals." That is, Ricardo La Volpe will not direct anymore? - No, no ... after what I happened in Toluca, already ... ", commented Ricardo.
La Volpe's career as DT
He finished his walk on the fields as a player in 1983 with the Halcones de Oaxtepec. With them he began to direct, after rescuing them from descending, he decided to sell to the club and became the Angels of Puebla . In 1988 he signed with Atlante, a team that brought him as a footballer to Mexico. After a season with the Colts, he went to Chivas, was unsuccessful and returned with the Barça team.
For the 1992-93 campaign, he got his only league title as technical director. In the league he left Necaxa, León and Monterrey behind. The final would be won by an aggregate of 4 to 0, Atlante returned to be champion after 46 years of drought. He left the Colts until 1996, in that year he signed with America, lasted 4 games, in one of which he lost 5-0 against Chivas, then fell against Puebla and was fired from Coapa.
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La Volpe lifting the League title in 1993 David Leah (MEXSPORT)
It would arrive with The Academy of the Atlas. One of his most remembered times was with the Black and Red. They reached the final of the Summer 1999, they let the title go against Toluca on penalties . La Volpe would have horns for 2001 and now he commanded the Devils. He took Toluca to a final, however, before he signed with the Mexican National Team, so Alberto Jorge led the matches for the trophy, won it and won the merit. With the Tricolor he won the Gold Cup in 2003, stayed in the group stage at the Athens Olympics in 2004, was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Confederations, was eliminated from his second Gold Cup in the same year and for the World Cup in Germany 2006 , would stay in the round of 16.
From there his career was less. He would go through Boca Juniors, Vélez Sarsfield, Monterrey, Atlas (again), the Costa Rican National Team, Banfield, Atlante, Guadalajara, Chiapas, America, Pyramids and Toluca. With the Azulcremas he played his last final. He lost to the Tigers in 2016, the centennial year of the Eagles.