Farewell to tradition, Chivas hires a foreigner and paralyzes Mexico

Chivas is a team that has a tradition of playing with pure Mexican soccer players, this club is prohibited from hiring foreigners. Thus, they have won 12 championships in their history and were close to being champions last season but they lost the final against Tigres.

More than a year ago, the club hired Santiago Ormeño, a striker who was born in Mexico but who plays for the Peruvian national team because he has a Peruvian family. This hiring was quite controversial and several journalists assured that the club broke its tradition.

Now the club has just broken its tradition, the team hired goalkeeper Óscar Whalley, a goalkeeper who was born in Spain, he has lived in that country all his life, also his father is English and his mother is Mexican. A rather controversial decision by manager Fernando Hierro when signing this player.

Whalley is only Mexican because his mother was born in Mexico but until now he had never played in this country. Óscar played last season with Lugo in the second division of Spain.

Chivas started preseason

Several club players, including Whalley, showed up for their medical examinations and began the team's pre-season. Now the goal of the club is to be champions of Mexican soccer.