Juan Carlos Rodríguez, former commissioner of the Liga MXmade headlines again by revealing that all the plans that had been drawn up to turn Mexican soccer into one of the most economically powerful competitions speaking they failed because the teams did not want to make their finances transparent.
After 24 months of having presented his resignation from the position in the Mexican Football Federationthe so-called “Bomba” assured in the “Fútbol de Primera” podcast that the owners of First Division teams did not want to participate in the investment fund simply because they did not want to make their businesses and finances transparent.
The former Mexican soccer official assured that he was very close to achieving revenue for Liga MX of up to 13 billion dollarsin a historic investment for Aztec football that would have allowed it to compete with the best leagues in the world.
The “Bomba” also said that he held meetings with different investment fund houses of greatest importance worldwide and that At least seven were very interested in participating in the Liga MX business.
“When we went to see the owners and said that the only rule was full transparency of their operationsthat was where they no longer wanted to be transparent or make public the way in which they cook their businesses and that is what happened,” said Rodríguez.
Juan Carlos Rodríguez was hired by the Mexican soccer high command and took office on May 22, 2023. with the conviction of changing the core of this sport in the Aztec nationbut his projects ran into many vices and over the course of a year, he left his position when the team owners refused to make their finances transparent.
“A very strange group began to form with people who, for different interests, lined up to boycott me. I found out about that boycott the night before the owners’ meeting. That day I received a call and that call made me decide to say: ‘I better not continue anymore.’”.
Asked if the owners of Liga MX were wrong by not taking the investment fund and said that the mistake was theirs: “No, but I regretted my mistakes. “I was the one who made a mistake, I was the one who screwed up, I believed my own story,” commented and previously gave the largest amount that the agreement could have reached.”
“My first big mistake is thinking that generating a lot of value is to convince someone to do things right,” he said. “In the end it wasn’t 800 million dollars, it was 13 billion dollars; It ended up being 12.9 billion dollars (proposal),” he highlighted.
In her analysis of how her management went, the “Bomba” stated that, at the end of the day, not everything was rosy, but at least aspects that resembled Major League Soccer (MLS) could be generated. and that this could raise the level of competition against the United States.
“There was an opportunity to copy the American model. I told them to give me the likelihood of coming and having the right people, But the most important thing is that I want to gather the transmission rights so that we can become a very large marketing company and that will allow us to build a very important business.”
“With my colleagues from Univisión we invented the Champion of Champions, the Leagues Cup, all those nonsense, all those rivalries that had to do with the United States; We did one after the other and they were successful,” he said.
Finally, he reiterated that not investing for Liga MX will see the impact in the coming years: “If we managed to convince an investment fund to make this work, there was a huge opportunity. While I was negotiating my contract, I went to see the people from CBC, the people from England and they went to see me in Mexico; I had not even entered yet and they told me: “Here’s $800 million for 10 percent of the business,” he concluded.
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