MEXICO CITY - Former Real Madrid striker Hugo Sanchez, regarded as Mexico's finest player, said on Tuesday he would like to help steer ailing giant America out of the crisis that left it near bottom of the Mexican chaampionship.

The Eagles, who missed the cut for the knockout phase of the Apertura championship which arch-rival Guadalajara is favorite to win, put their entire squad on the transfer list on Sunday amid plans to restructure the club.

Team president Michel Bauer, in charge for three years, announced his resignation on Monday night in another development at the club, one of the country's richest, owned by Mexican media giant Televisa.

"I'd love to help America so long as it's an interesting project for me and the board," Sanchez, five-time Pichichi winner as the top scorer in Spain's La Liga, said.

"Of course all the teams have options if they want me for their coach. I wouldn't come in as a fireman to any team, I'd join a side with a solid structure," said Sanchez, who played for America in the 1990s.

The former Atletico Madrid and Real forward, in Mexico to be inducted into the national hall of fame in Pachuca, steered outgoing champion Pumas UNAM to back-to-back titles in 2004 and coached the Mexico team in 2007-08.

Guadalajara's Mexico goalkeeper, Luis Ernesto Michel, will miss both legs of the Chivas' quarterfinal against Queretaro on Nov. 19 and 26 and the first leg of its semifinal, if it goes through, after being handed a three-match suspension on Monday.

Michel was punished for kicking the ball at Pachuca's Argentine defender Javier Munoz during the teams' 2-2 draw on Saturday. Both were sent off and Munoz, dismissed for retaliating, will serve a one-match suspension in the first leg of Pachuca's quarterfinal against Tigres UNAM on Nov 20.

A goalkeeper back in favor is Cruz Azul's Jesus Corona, recalled to the national team for Friday's friendly with Serbia in Queretaro, having been under suspension since May after head-butting Morelia's Argentine physical trainer Sergio Martin during a fracas involving both teams.

Reuters