Gerardo Martino is cursed with the Mexico National Team: all the finals he lost as coach

Mexico and the United States faced each other in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The match was played in Paradise, Nevada and the local team won 1-0 in extra time, three minutes from the end. The defeat was a very bad one for the Aztecs because they had already lost an agonizing final recently against the same team, but especially because they had assembled a team with top players such as Edson Álvarez, Jesús Corona and Héctor Herrera to be champions and were defeated by a third-string U.S. team, made up of local players.

Gerardo Martino, despite his enormous career, "Tata" has a striking negative record in the finals he played in. He played eight, between club and national teams, and only won one, although he was crowned champion on two occasions. He won with Mexico by 1-0 against the United States in the 2019 Gold Cup and with Barcelona he won the 2013 Spanish Super Cup, but drew both matches. It was against Atlético Madrid and he was consecrated given that his team drew 1 to 1 away and 0 to 0 home and was benefited by the away goal rule.

Of those he lost, the first one was with the Paraguayan National Team in the Copa América in Argentina in 2011. That Guarani team reached the final without winning a single match in either the group or knockout stages. They drew all the matches of the tournament, went through the quarterfinals and the semifinal on penalties and lost 3-0 to Uruguay in the decisive match. He also failed to win the 2014 Copa del Rey with Barca, as he lost 2-1 in the final against Real Madrid.

With the Argentine National Team he was unable to play in the finals of the Copa América 2015 and 2016. In both he drew and lost on penalties to Chile, the first time in Santiago de Chile and the second in New Jersey. The curious thing is that in the last one, they lost to the Red team coached by Juan Antonio Pizzi, another DT with a very bad record in finals. 

Martino and Mexico had already succumbed to the United States, which has become a team with greater potential, in the final of the CONCACAF Nations League in June. Despite their negative numbers, they still fall short of the eight runner-up finishes of Héctor Cúper, the Argentine coach with the most second-place finishes.