Jose Manuel de la Torre Keeps Mexican National Team Job - For Now Kevin Baxter - The Los Angeles Times
go to original July 30, 2013

Mexico national soccer team Coach Jose Manuel de la Torre has come under criticism after Mexico's dismal showing in the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament. (Eugenio Savio/Associated Press)

Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre got a reprieve but not exactly a vote of confidence Monday in his bid to keep his job as manager of Mexico's national soccer team.

Mexico has struggled this year, winning just five of 17 matches and just one of its six World Cup qualifiers. And after Mexico failed to reach the final of the Gold Cup on Sunday for the first time since 2005, officials of the country's soccer federation called an emergency meeting with representatives of Mexico's professional soccer clubs, who decided to allow De la Torre to continue as coach.

De la Torre was booed off the field after each of Mexico's two losses to Panama in the Gold Cup, with fans throwing debris at the coach and chanting "Fire Chepo." That sentiment carried over to Monday's meeting in Mexico City.

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