By Edgardo Avelar
The directive of Blue Cross and the Argentine coach Nicolás Larcamón will take different paths after this Wednesday’s meeting it was decided to thank the Argentine strategist, who in the last nine games The team fell dramatically when it was unable to add any victory.
Larcamón thus concludes his time at the Celeste Machine in his first experience as coach of a highly important team and where he could not achieve the successes that were projected even though they reinforced the team and where the players began to show fatigue under his command.
BREAKING NEWS! NICOLAS LARCAMÓN IS OUT OF CRUZ AZUL 🚂❌⚽️
The Machine thanks its strategist just one date away from concluding the regular phase of Clausura 2026.
The Argentine arrived on the La Noria bench in June 2025.🇦🇷
📝 THE BALANCE OF LARCAMÓN
❌ Inertia… pic.twitter.com/48IhpMlJUf
— FOX Sports actions MX (@FOXSportsMX) April 22, 2026
The Argentine coach led Cruz Azul in 47 games, with 24 wins, 16 draws and 7 lossess, but in the end their time in the cement team was marked with the elimination in the last group at the hands of the Tigres de la UANL in the semifinal of the Apertura 2025 tournament, as well as the elimination in the Leagues Cup with a resounding victory by the Seattle Sounders.
The victory occurred on July 31, 2025during matchday 1 of the Leagues Cup, and which was undoubtedly considered one of the most humiliating scores in the club’s history, equivalent to what América gave them in 2022.
BLUE CROSS
Jorge Pinto and Joel Huiqui are the two who will take the reins of Cruz Azul on an INTERIM basis.
Nicolás Larcamón has been dismissed.
Jorge Pinto, DT. Portuguese trained in Porto and who was in the U19.@somos_FOX
— Rubén Rodríguez 👤 (@ruubenrod) April 22, 2026
It is assured that the Portuguese Jorge Pinto and Joel Huiqui, who is the institutional assistant of the cement squad, will remain as interim technicians. who currently directs the Under 21 team, occupying the last places in the championship of that category.
No matter how much effort Larcamón made, the team was never able to function one hundred percent. and results such as the defeat on the last date of the last tournament against Pumas, where Colombian goalkeeper Kevín Mier was injured, were recorded in the spirit of the celestial fans.
After the miraculous qualification against Chivas due to the penalty missed by “Chicharito” Hernández in the quarterfinals of the previous tournament, which would have meant a hard blow and another failure for the cement producers.
Finally, the elimination in Concachampions with LAFC with a resounding 4-1 aggregate victory of the Dark & Gold team that won on Californian soil with a resounding 3-0, where the Cruzazulinos did not even put their hands.
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