Answering to fans at usldiscussions.com about the impending announcement of their new coach, J.Y. Ferry, Operations Manager for the El Paso Patriots, answered the fans with the following post:
Our new coach is Carlos A. Bracamontes.
Here's a bio brief:
Born in Colima, Mexico. 42 years old.
Pro player career as a center forward:
1977-79: Member Mexico's Olympic team
1981-83: Mexican 1st Div. Club Guadalajara (Chivas)
1984-85: Mexican 1st Div. Club Morelia
1986: Mexican 1st Div. Club Atlas
1987-88: Mexican 1st Div. Leon
Received his coaching diploma from Mexican Soccer Federation in 1996.
Got his coaching debut in 1998 with Mexico's 1st Div A Club "Union de Curtidores". Successfully promoted his club to Mexico 1st Div.
1999: Won 1st Div A League Championship with Union de Curtidores.
2000: Reached 1/4 final round of Summer 2000 league championship with Club Tigres de Cd Juarez (1st Div. A)
Mexican Daily "El Diario" from Cd Juarez (El Paso's sister city across the border, for those of you not familiar with the area)mentioned a month ago that we were holding contract talks with Carlos. We are happy to confirm that he's now accepted the position of Head Coach. Carlos will be available for interviews during our try-outs on Feb 19, 20 & 21.
He's been quite busy these past few days putting together a list of players. This process will continue with our try-outs and well into March when he'll be running our pre-season camp. He's also scheduling a number of friendly games as part of the team preparation. Our first official game will be an Open Cup qualifier on April 15th.
