Leandro Romagnoli surprised and resigned as coach of San Lorenzo

After the 1-1 draw against Godoy Cruz and after a series of bad results in recent times, Leandro Romagnoli surprised and resigned from his position as technical director of Saint Lawrence this Sunday, after meeting with the club’s board of directors. On Monday he will visit the Ciudad Deportiva to Say goodbye to the campus and take all your belongings.

In this way, the “Pee”, Cuervo’s idol during his time as a footballer, puts an end to his brief time with the team as coach. He had taken office on April 11, replacing Ruben Darío Insua, also for poor results.

It was a cycle that had poor returns in the Professional League, the elimination of the Argentine Cup facing Velez and the terrible campaign in Annual Tablewhere the Boedo club was eight points from the relegation zone. In addition, they suffered elimination from the Copa Libertadores in the round of 16 against Atlético Mineiro.

With only 26 official matches leading the team, led by “Pipi”, San Lorenzo obtained 7 victories, 9 draws and suffered 10 defeats. In total, he achieved 38% effectiveness of the points obtained.

Why Romagnoli resigned from San Lorenzo

The last straw for the now former coach was the match in Mendoza, with the unusual penalty that he executed Francisco Fydriszewski about the end of the game that could have given the Ciclón the much-needed victory but that failed to bite it. The locker room turned on and Romagnoli could not withstand the pressure of the bad moment.

After this adverse ending, the now former coach expressed his anger with his players’ decision to change the person in charge of executing the penalty and emphasized that there is less and less margin for error due to the context in which the institution finds itself.

“I’m getting really hot. It’s a game that doesn’t have much analysis. We found ourselves with a penalty at the very last moment. As I always say, I played for 20 years and sometimes a player is designated. Leguizamón and Muniain were kicking them, but on the field they decided that it was Polaco. One is not in the players’ heads. If I know that he is going to bite her, I get on the field and tell him, don’t do it. “They are decisions,” he had declared in Mendoza.

Is there already a replacement for Romagnoli?

Just minutes after the news of Romagnoli’s resignation became known, another representative of the institution, Nestor “Pipo” Gorosito ran to replace him in office during a radio interview.

“I am ashamed to offer myself through a medium, and out of respect for Pipi who I love very much, like her father. I always expressed my desire to return to the club, club moment bothers me. Being pain because he is leaving, it hurts me,” he said in dialogue with Radio la Red.

And he added: “I don’t avoid talking. What I think I say. But it makes me uncomfortable, because there is so much handling and it gives rise to some idiot saying Pipo has already arranged for them to call him.”

“I don’t want to be offering myself either. Maybe the club is thinking about another boy and I don’t want to get in the way. I don’t want to cause a problem. The last time I asked for permission to go to the San Lorenzo field, I called President Moretti to ask him if he didn’t take it wrong that I went to watch the game.. When I went to see Gimnasia against San Lorenzo I called the president of Lobo and also asked him the same thing. Because things start to be said, I don’t like it,” he explained.