Matosas Going Nowhere?

So I wrote on Matosas and the latest struggles for Club America. 

Meanwhile, this dude just offered a GIF visual of the same situation. 

El América de Matosas. pic.twitter.com/sna48B521m
— Judas Iscariote (@Mr_Bukowski) March 29, 2015

Here's a more statistical, analytical tack. 

En #GloriaAbsoluta, @FutIncorrecto analiza tácticamente la era Matosas | http://t.co/19ccz77aLm pic.twitter.com/ofNgVsQROw
— VAVEL Magazine MX (@VAVELMagazineMX) March 28, 2015

Matosas Offers His Resignation

Whoo, hooo! Fall on one's sword in a great show of sacrifice - or is it really? 

I have doubts. 

So do others. 

@mexicoworldcup @soccercanales Didn't Matosas pull the same cry baby tantrum at Leon multiple times over his tenure?
— Robert Villasenor (@rvilla18) March 23, 2015

hahahahahaha if matosas wants to quit let him quit tf , I didn't want him on @CF_America from the beginning anyways . #Matosas #America
— ℓiƶɛttɛ .♡ (@liiiiiizz_) March 23, 2015

Anyway, never fear, Matosas fans, he's not going anywhere yet. 

Americanistas, estén tranquilos, @gusmat_dt seguirá con ustedes. http://t.co/rw7Lt8MUuW pic.twitter.com/KibEw7JQ37
— juanfutbol (@juanfutbol) March 24, 2015

Early Loss for Matosas

There's nothing unusual about a Gustavo Matosas-coached squad lingering around the middle of the Liga MX table with an equal amount of losses to wins. 

But it is weird to see Club America there. For five months straight, the team has been at the top of the Liga MX standings, winning a championship along the way. 

Of course, that wasn't good enough to keep on coach Antonio Mohamed. 

It has to be said, though, that the loss to Tijuana was still an exciting match. Plus, many will blame the defeat not on Matosas, but on striker Oribe Peralta hitting a weak penalty shot that was saved. 

Mohamed's Twelfth Night

In college, I played the role of Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and got to say these lines:

I hate ingratitude more in a man

than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,

or any taint of vice whose strong corruption

inhabits our frail blood.

I thought of those lines again while watching Club America win their historic twelfth championship. How could Club America be so ungrateful?

Truth is, the club has treated the coach, Antonio Mohamed, who got them there very shabbily. It's quite stunning that the team would negotiate for a new coach even as Mohamed was leading the team through the playoffs in search of the title. Not surprisingly, that became the story of the championship. 

It may come back to haunt the club in more ways than just playing against Mohamed in the future. Besides Gustavo Matosas, what coach in their right mind would want to sign with a club that would do this?

What Price a Coach?

I dismissed the first reports of Gustavo Matosas signing as the new coach of Club America because it didn't make sense that any team would undercut a coach in the middle of a playoff run, with just the championship match yet to go. 

But more and more, the same news kept showing up, until, though still unverified by the team officially, there was too much smoke for me to pretend there was no fire under the butt of Antonio Mohamed. 

I couldn't help shaking my head about it even as I started to believe it. Why undercut a coach who still had work to do? Why couldn't any replacement work wait? How could the Club America administration risk a championship just to get rid of a coach a few days earlier? 

The basic question is - is getting Matosas worth risking the historic 12th championship for Club America? That's what's in danger now.