Overview
- Club Tigres, which announced the move Wednesday, said Mauricio Culebro will leave June 1 to become president of soccer at AMB Sports and Entertainment, the group behind Atlanta United and the NFL’s Falcons.
- Carlos Emilio González will take over as Tigres president on June 1, bringing three decades of global leadership experience at Cemex.
- Carlos Valenzuela will become executive vice president to strengthen the club’s management team.
- Culebro and González will work together over the next two months to carry out an orderly transition across departments.
- Local coverage casts the U.S. appointment as a milestone for Mexican executives in MLS, with some reports saying he would be the league’s first Mexican club president.