Mexico coach Herrera sacked after hitting scribe
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Mexico coach Miguel Herrera was sacked on Tuesday following allegations of an assault against a television journalist, just two days after guiding the team to its seventh Gold Cup trophy in the United States.
The combative 47-year-old, who also coached Mexico to the last-16 penalty shootout loss to the Netherlands at the World Cup last year, is alleged to have attacked the journalist Christian Martinoli, a virulent critic of the coach, at Philadelphia airport hours after Mexico had beaten Jamaica.
鈥淲e have taken the decision to relieve national coach Miguel Herrera of his duties,鈥 said federation president Decio de Maria.
鈥淥ur values and principles must be maintained regardless of results. However, violence has no place in society, in the family and even less so in our sport.
鈥淚 believe that Miguel perfectly understands the reason for this decision... all this has made him suffer a lot.鈥
Herrera, a former no-nonsense defender who earned the nickname 鈥榯he louse,鈥 had been in charge since October 2013 when he took over with Mexico struggling to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.
In a statement, Herrera apologized to his players, staff, fans, the federation and the media for his conduct in 鈥渢he painful incident I had with a commentator.鈥
鈥淚t is clear to me that this is not the attitude that a coach for the Mexican national team should take, despite having received all manner of criticisms, offenses and mockery of my family and my person,鈥 it read.
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