Even today with a club of almost all new faces under the leadership of Eduardo Coudet, Miguel Herrera is - for better or worse - the measuring stick which Coudet will be judged. Herrera’s shadow looms large in Tijuana on a club that he saved and that saved him.
July 28, 2015 was not Miguel Herrera’s finest hour. That had come two days before as Herrera and the Mexican National Team had thoroughly thrashed an upstart Jamaica side to win the Gold Cup, reclaiming the title from the United States - their third in four cycles.