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Unlike other players who, as Chivas USA unraveled, came to Los Angeles to vanish for good, Torres rose to the challenge: He holed up in a hotel room in Torrance, beside Interstate 405, and then devoted himself to playing and perfecting everything he learned in the lower ranks of Chivas. He was a victim of what Guadalajara began to suffer on the field. Torres was forced to push the limits of his performance even though his career was just starting to take shape. Torres was sent into exile by Chivas after experiencing, undoubtedly, the pressure that Chivas' then-emerging crisis was already bringing to bear on the players who had come up through the club's ranks. MLS, which included him in its All-Star Game, could make Chivas owner Jorge Vergara a direct offer.īut the real question is exactly what 'El Cubo' asked me: What should he do? Torres is under contract with Chivas, but there are several details in the contract that could leave him in the United States.

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The media in Guadalajara at the beginning of this week reported that Chivas' new club president, Néstor de la Torre, held a series of meetings with the player to ask him what plans he had in mind. The question that the 21-year-old is mulling is clear: Go back to Mexico to Chivas, or stay in MLS, where there will be various recruitment offers once Chivas USA disappears at the end of the season? On Sunday, Torres scored his first goal on the senior Mexican national team and is wrapping up a club season in the United States, where he has once again been a regular scorer and the great player that he once seemed destined to be. 'What would you do?' Erick 'El Cubo' Torres asked me a few weeks ago when we ran into each other after an interview on the program 'Nación ESPN.' The question was posed right in the middle of a cut, when the studio lights were down and people were speaking in hushed tones.

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If I had that type of scoring record under a manager, I would be hugging him too.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĮrick 'El Cubo' Torres facing a tough decision Under Cabrera, Cubo now has 25 goals in 42 MLS games. He has been averaging an assist or goal every 85 minutes this season. The Guadalajara native already has 10 goals through 13 games, 2nd in MLS. Some refer to him as the 'Cubo Whisperer' and it's hard to argue against the results. He was the one who managed Cubo during his breakout 15 goal season in 2014. Why has Cubo been able to turn it around? Many point to his new (old) coach, Wilmer Cabrera. That should give you an idea on what the club thought of him at the time. That buy option was worth less than half of what the Dynamo had paid for Cubo in December 2014. He injured his knee shortly after arriving and Cruz Azul did not exercise their buy option. The Dynamo tried loaning Cubo to Cruz Azul last fall to regain some confidence but it was not meant to be.

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Arguably, the manager did not know how to use many of his players and he was fired last season (he was also recently fired again over in England). He came back to the Dynamo in July 2015 to a manager that did not know how to use him.

Those 2 goals would be his last league goals until March 2017. He only saw 91 LigaMX minutes but contributed 2 goals. He played sparingly while in Guadalajara. That loan move would kickoff a difficult 2 years for Cubo. Houston Dynamo paid Chivas between $5-7mil for his rights but only after agreeing to loan him to the relegation threatened Chivas until the summer of 2015. However, he was searching for a club as Chivas USA was so badly mismanaged that the league bought them from Vergara and ceased operations. He was 21 yrs and had just earned his first 3 senior caps with El Tri. Were we going to see a player who was starting to live up to some of his lofty hype as the 'Next Chicharito'? Or a player who had scored 2 league goals in 2 calendar years?Ĭoming off a great 2014 season where he scored 15 goals for the league’s worst team, Cubo was in demand. Coming into this MLS season, no one knew what we were going to see out of Cubo Torres.

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