Inter Miami have sacked their second head coach in two years — except this time Javier Mascherano wasn't pushed, he resigned. The announcement landed Tuesday, just months after the club lifted the MLS Cup. Make that: lifted the MLS Cup and then got knocked out of the Concacaf Champions Cup in the Round of 16 by Nashville.
Apparently one bad cup run was enough.
Replacing Mascherano, at least temporarily, is Ángel Guillermo Hoyos — who until Tuesday was the club's sporting director. He'll now be managing the first team, including a certain Lionel Messi, while Inter Miami run a parallel process to find a permanent coach.
Who exactly is Hoyos?
That's the question most Miami fans are asking right now, and the honest answer is: he's not a name that inspires instant confidence. His most recent coaching stint was at Oriente Petrolero in Bolivia in 2023 — 13 matches, one win, four draws, eight losses. Before that, he managed Talleres de Córdoba, Aldosivi, and Atlas in Liga MX. Across 57 matches with those clubs, his record reads 15 wins, 12 draws, 28 defeats.
Those are not the numbers of a man who was earmarked to lead a Messi-era superclub. They're the numbers of someone being asked to hold the wheel steady while ownership scrambles for the real hire.
That's fine, as long as everyone's clear that's what this is. An interim appointment with a shaky résumé managing a squad full of marquee names is a situation that can unravel fast — and Inter Miami's odds in any near-term competition should be read with that instability priced in.
Front office reshuffled too
Hoyos stepping into the dugout creates a vacancy in the sporting director role, which Inter Miami have already filled. Alberto Marrero — previously director of football — moves into that position, completing a kind of domino restructure triggered by Mascherano's exit.
Jorge Mas and David Beckham are clearly in full reset mode. The MLS title bought goodwill. The Nashville result burned a chunk of it. Now they need a permanent head coach who can actually build something, because rotating through caretakers around Messi's final years isn't a strategy — it's a waste.
Hoyos takes charge for the upcoming matches. The permanent search is already underway.
