April 26, 2024 – Major Arena Soccer League (MASL)
Chihuahua Savage News Release
With Genoni Martínez as coach, the Chihuahua team seeks the two-time MASL championship, an achievement that a Mexican team has not earned in professional indoor soccer in the United States for 22 years.
Chihuahua Savage has the opportunity to tie La Raza de Monterrey as the only two-time champion teams in the history of the Aztec squads in the highest level professional indoor soccer in the United States.
La Raza won the titles in 1995 and 1996 in the defunct Continental Indoor Soccer League and now the Savages have the great opportunity to equal the number of titles back to back against the Kansas City Comets.
Chihuahua has a fundamental piece in the search for this title, its coach Genoni Martínez. As a player, the “Boss of Bosses” was a key piece for La Raza to obtain its four titles, including the two-time championship in 95-96.
Now Savage, a club that was crowned last season by defeating the Baltimore Blast, will close the final series against the Comets at the Corner Sport Arena, its home, so the chances of being crowned are more than latent.
Martínez arrived this season with the tournament already underway, he replaced Everardo “Camarón” Sánchez on the CUU bench, an institution in Chihuahua sports and who guided Savage to the championship last season.
Genoni, for his part, returned to the scene after a long inactivity and did a remarkable job with the cherry, black and white team. He barely lost five games of the 19 he coached and the only American team that has been able to beat him was the Tacoma Stars, whom he eliminated in the Division semifinal round. “Geno” and “El Camarón” are the only Mexican strategists who have managed to win the US indoor soccer title.
On a personal level, this would also be a historic achievement for Martínez, since he would become the first Mexican coach with two titles, after he guided the Monterrey Flash to its only championship, obtained in the 2014-2015 campaign, the first of the Major Arena Soccer League.
German coach Erich Geyer was the one who formed La Raza and led them to three of their four titles, finding along the way players who became legends such as Marco “Chikis” López, Alejandro Cárdenas, Octavio Pérez, Marco Coria, Martín Hernández, the goalkeeper Raúl Salas and the Brazilian Zizinho, father of Jonathan and Giovani Dos Santos, to mention the most notable. Among them, Martínez stands out as the best – and most…
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