Carlos Fierro returns to Liga MX 2022 and will do so for this reason

One of the most eye-catching news of the day was that Carlos Fierro is returning to Liga MX 2022 after playing for the San Jose Earthquakes and will return to Mexican soccer for a very strong reason. 

The U-17 world champion announced today his return to Mexican soccer and his incorporation to FC Juarez where he will be under the orders of Ricardo "Tuca" Ferretti, an old Mexican soccer sea dog. 

Carlos Fierro's reason for returning to Liga MX

The 27-year-old player decided to return to Mexico because he did not convince Matias Almeyda, who was his coach at San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer, to the point that since the beginning of last December the North American club did not offer him to renew his contract. 

This is because, in his two seasons with San Jose, Fierro played 54 games, scored six goals, and provided six assists, a much lower figure compared to his teammate and fellow Mexican Eduardo "Chofis" Lopez. 

This player was so effective in his MLS career that he aroused the interest of several teams in the North American league, so if any club tried to sign him before the start of the next season, they would have to pay compensation to the Earthquakes. 

Why? Well, because during his time with the Quakes the player played 32 games, scoring 12 goals and providing 3 assists, which is a huge difference compared to Carlos Fierro. 

Fierro returns to Mexican soccer as a free agent with FC Juárez after having played for different Liga MX teams such as Chivas, Querétaro, Cruz Azul and Monarcas Morelia. 

In June 2019, Matias Almeyda, former coach of Guadalajara, took him to San Jose, and thus Fierro became the first reinforcement of the Earthquakes for the 2019-20 MLS season, but in December last year, he left the institution when he no longer entered the plans of the Californian team.

Carlos Fierro and the golden generation of the 2011 World Cup

Fierro aroused a lot of interest in his early days as he was one of the most important players in the 2011 U-17 World Cup, which Mexico won with great dominance. 

From that team came different figures such as Ponchito González from Rayados and Antonio "El Pollo" Briseño from Chivas, but most of them could not continue their careers for different reasons, so Mexico lost a golden generation of young players. 

One of the most convincing examples of this was the Golden Ball winner of that competition, Julio Gómez, who is now forgotten, but who immortalized himself in that tournament by scoring a Chilean goal against Germany, even with a head injury. 

And that is one of the great problems of Mexican soccer: the lack of care for promising young players who are forgotten after the teams benefit from them. 

This seems to be a bad habit in Mexican soccer, as something similar happened to the Mexican U-17 soccer team that won the World Cup in 2005. 

However, that squad was a little luckier as players such as Carlos Vela or Giovani dos Santos did manage to develop careers in professional soccer, but with very different results.