Sunday, February 18, 2007

Hostile crowd

Juan Pablo Garcia was not welcomed back to Atlas with open arms. Saturday, Garcia and Tigres went to Guadalajara to play Garcia's former club and the crowd jeered his return. Garcia said afterward he was surprised by the response.

Well, what did Loco expect? When he left, club officials were none too happy. They felt betrayed by Garcia and that sour feeling carried over into the stands.

I feel bad for Garcia because things haven't exactly gone his way since leaving Chivas. He longed for a return to Mexico but has yet to establish himself on the team, is probably no closer to the national team than he was here and found out the hard way that he is no longer welcome in Guadalajara, at least in his old stomping grounds.

He could have stayed here, though, and none of that would have been an issue.

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