The Serbian will be the possible replacement for Robert Dante Siboldi, who left the team recently involved in controversy
The Serbian Veljko Paunovic signed a two-year contract that makes him the new coach of Tigers facing Apertura 2024.
The Serbian-Spanish strategist and the feline club have closed the negotiations and will arrive this Sunday at the edge of noon in the Riviera Maya to take charge of the work carried out by the felines.
Paunovic He will arrive on the San Nicolás bench as a replacement for Robert Dante Siboldi, who did not renew his contract after spending a little more than a year in charge of the cats.
As an experience, the European barely had one adventure in Mexican soccer, throughout 2023 with Chivas, where he even lost the Clausura 2023 final against Tigerswhich were commanded at that time by his now predecessor.
Tigers It will be the fourth club in the career of Paunovicwho has passed through Chicago Fire of the MLS, Reading of England and Guadalajara, although his only title as a strategist came in 2015 at the head of the Serbian team, with the conquest of the Under 20 World Cup.
During his management in ‘El Rebaño Sagrado’, the European played in a final and achieved 18 wins, seven draws and nine losses, during the regular phase of the Clausura and Apertura 2023. In addition, he obtained 61 points, in the two campaigns.
Despite his brief stay in the Guadalajara team, the name of Veljko Paunovic He entered the history of the institution by imposing two brands.
By surpassing the record set by Ricardo ‘Tuca’ Ferretti in 1997, and winning 21 games in a calendar year, becoming the technical director with the most wins in that period.
In addition to being the coach who needed the fewest games at the head of Guadalajara to reach a Liga MX final, he required only 21 and surpassed the mark of Hans Westerhof, who did it in 34 games.
