What should have been a simple preparation match a week before the start of the Liga MXended in a lawsuit that gave more to talk about than the result itself. The friendly duel between Pumas and FC Juárez in the Cantera It was suspended at minute 60 due to a fight that, until now, was surrounded by rumors.
After what happened, Pedro Caixinha, coach of the Bravescame out to put an end to the speculation, where the Portuguese coach confirmed what many suspected: the game got out of control and yes, there were blows.
Why was the fight between Pumas and FC Juárez?
The party, which Juárez was winning 2-1, it got heated around the 60th minute. The versions indicate that everything was detonated by a play in the middle of the field. A strong entry from the player Cougars, Adalberto “Coco” Carrasquillaabout a Bravos soccer player, was the spark that lit the prairie.
Rodolfo Pizarrowho was already on the Juárez bench, jumped up to complain to the Panamanian. At that moment, the benches of both teams were emptied to “defend their own” and a fight broke out on one of the Cantera fields.
Did Efraín Juárez run to Caixinha and the Braves?
One of the strongest rumors that began to circulate was that Efraín Juárez, Pumas coachordered the border team to leave the facilities. However, Pedro Caixinha completely denied a direct lawsuit with Efra.
“Efraín received me wonderfullywe took a tour of the facilities that I already knew. In the end we had nothing to do with it,” he clarified. Caixinha in an interview with FOX. The Portuguese revealed what they really said to each other in the midst of the chaos: “I just told him: ‘I’ll take mine, you take yours,’ and that’s as far as we go. There was nothing in relation to me with Ephraim or Ephraim to me.“.
Far from the version that “they expelled them”, Caixinha and reports indicate that the situation was handled cordially once tempers calmed down. The Pumas coaching staff offered Bravos to finish their training on another of Cantera’s fields.
