Sporting San Jose sacks Francisco Palencia

Sporting Costa Rica This Monday he fired the Mexican coach Francisco Palencia, after a series of poor results that led the team to last place in the classification.

📝 Sporting FC thanks coach Francisco “Paco” Palencia for his work and professionalism during his time at the helm of Albinegros, also expresses gratitude to assistant Raul Cabello and wishes them success in their future projects 🤝🏼… pic.twitter.com/cgWI06GNO5

— Sporting (@sportingcr) January 29, 2024

Sporting thanks the coach Francisco ‘Paco’ Palensifor the work and professionalism shown while working with Albinegro, he also expresses gratitude to the assistant Raoul Cabello and wishes them success in future projects,” the club’s publication indicates on its social networks.

🇨🇷 Mexican trainers in Costa Rica:

○ Francisco Palencia: Sporting San Jose.
○ Mario Garcia: Club Sport Cartagines.
○ Hector Altamirano: Club Sport Herediano.
○ Javier San Roman: Greece AD.

👉 There are as many Aztec technical directors as there are in Liga MX. pic.twitter.com/bVHCxLPHDP

— dataref Mexico (@dataref_mx) December 29, 2023

Sporting, young club from the capital Saint Joseph, is located in last place in the Clausura tournament classification with 2 points after 5 days played.

Palencia He joined the team at the previous tournament and signed another campaign finishing seventh among 12 teams with 26 points in 22 days.

However, in the current tournament They had only two draws in the first five days. and the streak of failures reached 7 games in a row without a wintaking into account the closure of the last campaign.

Former Mexico national team arrived at Sporting with the goal of involving the team in the fight forfirst four places that is, those who, based on the results of the regular phase of tournaments, reach the semi-final stage.

(according to information from EFE)