Hacerle la cama al técnico, “to make the bed for the coach,” is a Mexican football expression. The sports newspaper Récord explains that cama comes from camarilla, a clique. It is a football saying used “para insinuar que parte del plantel” (to insinuate that part of the squad) is undermining its coach.
In March 2025, Hugo Sánchez spoke on the ESPN program Futbol Picante about his time as coach of Pumas. He said that players commonly do this to a coach when they are not comfortable with him, and that his own squad had done it to him. “Me hicieron la camita, de manera indirecta” (They made the little bed for me, indirectly), he said, according to Récord. (Video in Spanish.)