El “Turco” Mohamed considers retirement at the end of the 2025 Apertura
Antonio Mohamed is considering retiring from the bench, which would end the possibility of a golden age with the Diablos Rojos del Toluca
Antonio Mohamed, Toluca coach, opened the possibility this Thursday of retiring from technical direction at the end of the current 2025 Apertura tournament, because due to his age he already feels the ravages of stress from this complicated profession in search of results every week.
The above arose in an interview for the TUDN network, where he said he was full and convinced that he is doing what he likes most in life, but also stated that he no longer feels the strength of youth to continue dealing with the daily stress of a very comforting, but at the same time very exhausting job.
“I am very calm, very happy, enjoying, a stage of my life, I don't know if it will be the last, the last car in the coaching part, I have been a coach for 24 years. If you count the years that I directed it is the last car, if you count the five-year cars it is the last, I'm 55 years old, not that young, not to be in it all day behind the stress of every game." , highlighted the experienced coach in news that hits the hopes of the Toluca fans who believed in the beginning of a brilliant history for the Red Devils.
The reasons for the striking announcement
The surprising announcement by Antonio Mohamed contrasts with the great career of the so-called "Turco" in Toluca where he ended the hegemony of America, snatching the title of the Clausura 2025 tournament, the Campeon de Campeones, as well as the Campeones Cup from the LA Galaxy, in what represents a brilliant path that the board hopes to maintain at least in the current Apertura 2025 tournament and then invite him to fulfill his contract that ends in December 2026, which would represent a dynasty for the Red Devils in Mexican soccer.
Mohamed, for that reason in the interview I joked that after the matches it is already very difficult for them to recover from the mental fatigue that comes with managing a Liga MX match: "That is why I do not rule out that retirement is closer than one might suppose, because little by little the desire to manage and the illusion of getting up every day to go to training are lost", he concluded.
It should be noted that Mohamed has been crowned four times in the Liga MX with