Guadalajara soccer team Chivas Sunday fired its Spanish coach Javier Azcargorta following the team's 3-0 defeat by Toluca on Saturday, which forced Chivas out of the Mexican league playoffs, the club said in a statement on Sunday.

Azcargorta would not be back next season because of "strategic disagreements", Juan Jose Frangie, director of the sports club, said in the club statement.

Chivas hired the coach in August, after getting rid of Benjamin Galindo, who had not impressed the directors with the first three games of the season.

Azcargorta notched up two victories, five losses and five draws in the 12 matches that he steered. The team finished 13th in Mexico's 18 member league.

Azcargorta took Bolivia to the World Cup in 1994 and was head of Real Madrid's soccer schools.

Source: Xinhua