Betting on the youth is important. Get the 18 – 20 years olds at the very beginning of the world cup cycle. Then by 2014, they are 22 – 24, and surround them by a healthy dose of experience.

Don’t worry, I really think Mexico will be the best they’ve ever been by 2014. They have a great young generation that will mature by then. And I think this will be the generation that takes back the top of CONCACAF from the US (especially if we don’t get a good coach).

I found these other numbers. They are very similar to the ones you published but in the case of Aguirre’s salary it seems more normal, though I think it is still overpaid.

Check it out:
http://www.futebolfinance.com/os-salarios-dos-treinadores-no-mundial-2010

I am mexican and also think he’s a good coach, but an overpaid coach won’t necesarily get us better results, instead it could be counterproductive like it was with Sven Goran Ericksonn. In the other hand, Bob Bradley (US), Oscar Washington Tabarez (URU) and Gerardo Martino (PAR) are also good coaches that have made very good and strong teams and they get paid about 5 or 6 times less than Aguirre! The FMF should lower the national team’s coach salary to a reasonable amount and bet on continuity and the generation of young talent.

How morons came up with these garbage fake numbers is beyond me, if they’d simply asked Herbert he’d at least have put them in the right ball park. This made the papers here- these absurd numbers have been printed as fact around the world. Don’t believe everything you read folks.

The publication I found:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/local-sport/3191657/Herbert-laughs-off-Maradona-comparisions/

states the New Zealand manager makes around $50,000.
That’s a ridiculously small amount that I don’t believe!

In any case, it does raise questions on the validity of these numbers … although diario Ole is a reputable source.

I thought I’d comment on this because I read an interesting article on Ricki Herbert, New Zealand manager who supposedly earns US$1.2m. This did seem a little over the top to me and Herbert himself confirmed he earns more like US$35,000 per annum.

Interesting though, i wonder how these statistics are generated????

In my opinion, Aguirre is the best Mexican coach there is. He has been successful in Europe and took this team over during qualification when Sven-Goran Eriksson was having a terrible campaign (Mexico’s WC qualification was in doubt). Aguirre came and turned it around.

In addition, let’s not forget that the Mexican Federation runs a very lucrative professional league. Their stadiums are always full. So they have the money to dish out on a coach.

Is he worth $4 million? Probably not by any objective measure – no other country would pay that sum. But he did accomplish what the FMF wanted – qualify. We’ll see how he does in the World Cup.