
After one season with San Diego FC, the MLS team he joined as a designated player with one of the league's highest salaries, Hirving Lozano is no longer in the institution's plans and is inactive, waiting to find a solution, whether he is loaned out or remains without playing but collecting his salary.
On Jan. 9, Tyler Heaps, sporting director of the California-based club, announced, via SanDiego.Futbol, that the Mexican forward will not continue with the team despite having a contract through 2028.
In the final stretch of last season, Hirving was separated from the squad, reportedly due to an indiscipline issue, and although weeks later he was reinstated after publicly apologizing to the coach and his teammates, he was no longer considered a starter in the playoffs.
That breaking point was irreparable and therefore both the coach and management decided that "Chucky" will not play again for San Diego, and he has now been inactive for two months in the middle of a World Cup year in which he needs to earn consideration for Javier Aguirre's final roster.
Amid the described situation, Hirving's brother, Bryan Lozano, criticized the attacker's attitudes and recalled that he had conflicts at other clubs.
"At Napoli, he had his problems with (Gennaro) Gattuso and his coaching staff; at the time, at PSV, he also had them. He is rude and arrogant and that leads nowhere; that has influenced why many people really don't want him."
"Even though he earns a lot in San Diego, I feel like it's like an excuse, because it's not convenient to have someone like that, knowing that having a healthy locker room is very important. So, nobody or very few would risk signing him, because at the end of the day, they run the risk that something similar to what has happened before could happen," the fellow soccer player said in a interview with ESPN.
"Chucky" has been estranged from his parents and three siblings for several years, which is why Bryan Lozano addressed the attitudes that have marked the player's career.
"I found out through social media that I think he disrespected the San Diego coach in the game against the (Houston) Dynamo, but that's already a very repetitive attitude of his. In the national team, there is also a lot of talk about his indiscipline," Bryan Lozano added in the aforementioned interview.
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