Guadalajara continues with its history in the CL23 having advanced to the Liga MX Grand Final, which for Veljko Paunovic was possible thanks to the permanent sacrifice, dedication, union, desire to transcend, but above all to the FAITH that the red and white team showed in the Clasico de Mexico to win the series and today be in the series for the title, for which he recalled that the support of the millions of ChivaHermanos has been vital.
Pauno's words after the Clasico de Mexico Semifinal second leg:
"I have to congratulate the rivals because it was very difficult and among all the participants we have shown what soccer means today and we have written a part of history that is not yet concluded, it has been very exciting and everyone will remember it."
"The most important thing for me was that the team today went out and showed that they have tremendous character and faith in everything we do."
"Today it wasn't tactics, it wasn't approach, today it was the heart of our players and all the people who support us and work around us, they prevailed and beat a great opponent."
"For me it means a lot because I have seen that I am able to inspire a great club and the guys who work inspired, give them the confidence and faith to bring out their best talent, their best version."
"We haven't done anything yet, we still have the last step left, the biggest and the most important, that's why we have to keep humility, today we enjoy and tomorrow we go back to work."
"From the first day we said we were going to work in accelerated steps, but without rushing, we have been in that process, we have been very disciplined."
"Fernando (Hierro) is a person with a fantastic heart, he is always in the shadows supporting with tremendous confidence all of us who work with the team and the players, he is a great professional with a lot of experience and knows at what moment to apply it."
"He has helped me a lot to carry my part and work on my plot as best I can, we distribute the work between us with a great communication which has brought us here, we are in a position that we have to convert all the work we have carried so far."
"From the first day I had to convince everyone, but from the first day I met them, that all of us working together are going to achieve their best version and we are about to complete that process, we will not stop or lose humility".
"Soccer is played with the head, with the heart and also with the balls, and I believe that we have the three requirements and today we demonstrated it, soccer is also played with spirit, with love, with emotion".
"In the technical aspects, in the first half we changed the system, our approach was to surprise the opponent, that went very well, we changed again at halftime, it didn't go well, they tied us, but we were ready with the final plan of our approach, which was to go out with more people up top and attack on the wings."
"On the verge of making a change, the red card against América came up, that's when we stopped everything and re-evaluated the situation, we gave the team time to settle on the field, we saw that things worked out that way, we were waiting for 10 minutes of overtime, we waited until the last moment to make the final changes and the tweaks with which we scored the third goal."
"I have to say something for the fans, on Thursday after the match, I asked for the support of all the fans here in the CDMX and yesterday the reception was key, it was a show of confidence in the team."
"The first time we were expected here it wasn't the same feeling, there was FE (FAITH) and this was transmitted to the team, that euphoria, that confidence that the fans gave us was decisive, we went out from the beginning trusting in our plan, that there are people who believe in us and who expect our best decision, that was key and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT!".
