to fight for the 2018 opening title

After being eliminated by America in the quarter-finals of Clausura 2018 with an outrageous overall score of 6-2, the board of Pumas of UNAM led by its president Rodrigo Ares de Parga began planning the Opening Tornament 2018.

One of the first decisions of Ares de Parga was to retain David Patiño as a coach of the university team, his numbers in two tournaments (Opening 2017 and Closing 2018), 25 games in which he won seven wins, nine draws and nine defeats.

The Clausura 2018 a tournament of ups and downs for the Pumas since so far nine have remained in the top places of the standings, then the problems for David Patiño appeared as the team fell into a rut of poor results and it was up to the final of the championship when he sealed his ticket to the Liguilla

Pumas finished the championship in seventh place overall with 24 points, with six wins, six draws, five losses and the same number of goals for and against with 24 goals.

The board also appointed Leandro Augusto as new athletic director, so along with the coaching team he was one of those responsible for trying to figure out which player would be the right one for fill the big hole left in the lead by Nicolás Castillo, who emigrated to Portuguese football with Benfica.

To cover the loss of Nico, arrived at the university institution Felipe Mora de Cruz Azul Carlos Gonzalez of Necaxa and Juan Manuel Iturbe from Xolos, they will be in charge of Matías Alustiza to direct the feline attack.

R evisa here the ups and downs of the Pumas for the Opening Tournament 2018

The first objective of the Pumas will be to make the Olympic University Stadium a great force, then to get as many points as possible The Liguilla and now think of the title since the last time the university image was champion of the 2011 Clausura Tournament.

The next figure will be Matías Alustiza, l & # The experience of Mexican naturalized Argentine will be the key to being the benchmark in the university ahead, because on his feet will be the responsibility to score the goals that make the difference in favor of the Pumas.

Prediction . Nicolás Castillo the management has made good recruitment to balance the team in all its lines so that it will not have any problems to qualify the Liguilla and improve what the season past where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals.