Tigres UANL have not approached Santiago Baños about their vacant presidency, according to a denial from inside the club reported by Mediotiempo, and their search for a president cannot formally move at all right now.
That is the picture in Mediotiempo’s Tigres-side reporting, published on November 11. Inside the club, the report says, people deny that any approach has been made for Club América’s sporting president.
Baños was one of the names linked with the job in the last few hours, the report says. A link is all it is, on this account.
A Search That Cannot Move
Tigres have no president. Carlos Emilio González was removed after five months, in a decision Mediotiempo reports was taken for internal reasons at Cemex, the company behind the club, and not for sporting reasons.
FutnSoccer’s November 10 report, following the Castillo chain, linked González’s separation to complaints of workplace harassment. Mediotiempo’s account gives internal Cemex reasons instead, so the two versions of why he left conflict as well, and neither club has addressed either one.
The club has the announcement of his departure ready. Cemex has not authorized its release, and until it comes, Mediotiempo reports, Tigres cannot formally advance with any candidate for the job.
The statement was expected on Monday or Tuesday and did not arrive. It may land during this international break week, but the timing is Cemex’s alone.
One fixture sits in the middle of it. Tigres will play América in the final round on November 21 with no president in place.
Domene, Not Baños, Is the Closest Option
The candidate closest to the job, Mediotiempo reports, is Jorge Domene. His arrival is not closed, and no formal offer has been made to him either.
Domene knows the institution. He was a Tigres vice-president in the 1990s, in 1996, and worked on the restructuring that took the club back to the first division.
He has been out of football since that spell, after going into public security work in Nuevo León. The Domene line follows reporting by Willie González on RG La Deportiva, which Mediotiempo carried on November 10.
Where That Leaves the Baños Story
The denial runs against the previous day’s reporting the other way, which FutnSoccer laid out on November 10. Luis Castillo’s information had Baños as the leading candidate, and TUDN’s Vladimir García reported that a first approach had taken place.
The two accounts cannot both be right about an approach. Neither club has commented on any of it, and nothing official has settled which version holds.
One more conflict sits inside the reporting itself. Mediotiempo describes Baños as out of contract in December.
The candidacy chain holds that he is renewed at América through the end of 2029, and Baños himself has said he signed a five-year contract last year. The December line is not adopted here.
What Is Not Confirmed
There is no statement from Tigres and none from América. There is no formal offer to Baños, and none to Domene.
There is no date for the Cemex announcement that would unfreeze the search, and no confirmation that the presidency will be filled before the Liguilla.
What is confirmed is the vacancy itself, and the edge the calendar gives it: an eliminated Tigres side, hosting América on November 21 with first place on the line for the visitors and an empty chair at the top of the home club.
For the kickoff time and U.S. viewing options for the Tigres UANL match, see where to watch Club América in the United States.
