Virrey To Lead América?

Fer­nando Tena’s immi­nent sack­ing at the Mex­i­can side is caus­ing a whirl­wind in the City. The team’s per­for­mance against San Luis pretty much made the deci­sion for him, there is no one in their right mind that will think that he will be on the bench next week­end against Cruz Azul in the Clásico Joven at the Azteca.

Now there is the ques­tion mark as far as the team’s future is con­cerned. Accord­ing to reports, Car­los Bianchi and Fabio Cap­pello are the two top choices to fill that void come next year. Bianchi has a slight, but sig­nif­i­cant edge over the for­mer Real Madrid man because of his pro­fes­sional and per­sonal rela­tions with the big­wigs of Televisa.

Let’s also keep in mind the fact that he is still tech­ni­cally under con­tract with Atlético Madrid. This will allow him to take over the post only at the begin­ning of this year. On Mon­day, the América brass will send a group to Buenos Aires to nego­ti­ate with “El Vir­rey”. This news is accord­ing to Ovaciones.

In the mean­time, for­mer América play and Argen­tine, Uruguayan, and Israeli inter­na­tional Daniel Brailovsky has ver­bally agreed to take over the side until the end of the sea­son. “El Ruso” is cur­rently work­ing as ana­lyst for ESPN in Mex­ico City.