The former soccer player Sebastián 'Crazy' Abreu He is the new coach of Tijuana, as the Mexican club announced on Wednesday. The Uruguayan coach, 48, will assume the team for the Opening 2025 tournament, which will begin next summer.
In a press release, the Xolos del Tijuana confirmed the hiring of the strategist, which directed to another club of the same hot group, the Dorados de Sinaloa, of the second category of football in the country, which trained from May from 2024 to last March.
Two clubs with the same owner
Just in March, the local press reported that Abreu left the gold to take care of the Xolos, although officially the technical director who appeared in the records was Cirilo Saucedo.
By regulation, the one born 48 years ago in Mines (center of Uruguay) could not be a trainer of two Mexican teams in the same semester.
In addition to the Xolos and Los Dorados, the former Denreser has directed the Salvadoran Tecla, the Uruguayans Boston River and Paysandú, the Bolivian Always Ready and the Peruvian University César Vallejo.
With Sinaloa, in its first contest, Opening 2024, Abreu reached the quarterfinals, His best result as a coach in Mexico.
32 teams as a player
The 'Crazy' Abreu had an outstanding race as a player, the military in 32 teams and in the Uruguayan team, To retire in 2022 at age 44, after which his stage began on the benches.
Among the teams in which he was as a footballer, the Spaniards Deportivo de A Coruña and Real Sociedad, the Mexicans Monterrey, Tigres, San Luis and América, the Argentines San Lorenzo and River Plate or the Brazilians Gremio and Botafogo stood out.
He also had experiences in Chile, Greece, Israel, Ecuador and El Salvador, in addition to, of course, in clubs of his native country.
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With his selection, the former gunner played 70 games, in which he scored 26 times; It was part of the payrolls of the World Cups of 2002 and 2010 -in South Africa, Uruguay ended in fourth position -in addition to the 1997, 2007 and 2011 Cups.
