Sanchez's Cruz Azul future in doubt after CCC win

Cruz Azul caput manager Vicente Sanchez celebrated the team's 5-0 triumph implicit the Vancouver Whitecaps to triumph the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup earlier adding his aboriginal with the Liga MX nine remains successful question.

Sanchez took implicit arsenic Cruz Azul interim manager amid the 2025 Liga MX Clausura tourney successful February, aft caput manager Martin Anselmi near the station abruptly to articulation FC Porto. He managed to pb the nine to 3rd spot connected the Liga MX array with 33 points and a 9-6-2 (W-D-L) grounds earlier reaching the tournament's semifinal and winning the CCC trophy.

"Value comes from numbers; it was a semester wherever the numbers talk for themselves. I worth myself highly due to the fact that God placed maine there. I'm grateful due to the fact that the fans chanted my name, and they bash truthful due to the fact that they consciousness represented connected the pitch," said Sánchez pursuing the CONCACAF Champions' Cup final. "I don't cognize the future; I unrecorded 1 time astatine a time, and I don't cognize what volition hap tomorrow.

"The determination isn't up to me. There are galore precise bully things. When we took implicit the team, we had 1 point, we were 16, we hardly had a break, it was Tuesday and Saturday. We played successful some tournaments; we were the squad that played the astir games successful the full semester. We reached the semifinals and finished undefeated successful the Concacaf."

He aboriginal expressed gratitude to nine president Victor Velazquez for allowing him the accidental to pb Cruz Azul.

"I'm grateful to Velázquez for putting his spot successful me, and we responded with this title," Sanchez said. "Today, Cruz Azul is astatine the apical of the tournament. I'm precise happy, aft a semester of hard work. Returning the enactment to the idiosyncratic who trusted maine is the champion happening that tin hap to you. Today, we gave Cruz Azul the title, and it's the champion happening that tin happen. I unrecorded for today. I'm precise happy."

Despite the uncertainty, nine skipper Ignacio Rivero insisted the players basal with Sanchez.

"[It means] a lot, for everyone, not conscionable for Vicente, who contiguous is simply a manager who tin proceed with america oregon not," Rivero said. "I'm not the 1 who tin determine that, but well, we are precise blessed with him and well, clip volition tell."

Cruz Azul subordinate Lorenzo Faravelli echoed his teammates sentiment: "We defended Vicente connected the pitch, and afterward, whether oregon not this happens time is nary longer up to us."

Cruz Azul lifted the Concacaf Champions Cup for the seventh clip successful nine history, tying America for the astir successful the competition's history. Despite its humanities occurrence successful Concacaf's elite nine competition, it was the archetypal clip Cruz Azul won the rubric since 2013-14.