It is already an accomplished fact: Marcelo Bielsa will be the coach of the Uruguayan soccer team heading to the World Cup that will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada in 2026.
After several rumors never clarified, the WOW (Uruguayan Football Association) confirmed with a welcome video for Rosario, the arrival of the Argentine coach to the light blue substitute bench.
“He already has everything arranged to be the new coach of the Uruguayan national team”Jorge Casales, a member of the Executive Commission of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF), had advanced a few days ago.
“From a contractual point of view, the agreement is one hundred percent closed, because the last remaining clauses were agreed without discrepancies and everything came to fruition”had counted the leader.
It can now be said without fear of being wrong: The 67-year-old coach’s debut in the “Celeste” team will then be on June 14 against Nicaragua and on Tuesday the 20th against Cuba, in both friendly matches that will take place on FIFA date and They will be played at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo.
Bielsa, with a long career as a coach, has just led England’s Leeds United for the last time, from which he was promoted to the Premier League and from which he left on February 27, 2022.
Before, the man from Rosario directed the French Olympique de Marseille and Lille, the Spanish Athletic Bilbao; the Chilean national team; Argentina (!998/2006) and Espanyol, from Barcelona.
In addition, Bielsa served in Vélez Sarsfield (1997/1998); Atlas and America in Mexico (1992/1997) and Newell’s Old Boys, from Rosario, where he debuted as a technical director (1990/1992).
The coaching staff that will accompany Bielsa in his third experience as coach of a national team will have the presence of two women who will be in charge of the areas of logistics (the Argentinian Magalí Conde) and coordination (the Spanish Sara Bouzas).
Another Spaniard, Diego Bermúdez, will be in charge of the virtual video analyses, and the goalkeeper coach will be the Uruguayan Carlos Nicola, while Pablo Quiroga, from Colón in Buenos Aires, who started with Bielsa as a video analyst and will now be his second assistant field (the main physical trainer will be designated by the AUF).
The main field assistant will be the Chilean Diego Reyes, who contacted Bielsa through a letter in 2008 and “Loco” added him to his work team since then.
While the “newcomer member” of “Team Bielsa” as the third field assistant will be the Argentine Lucas Oubiñas.
Bielsa also requested to take charge of the Under 23 team that next year will participate in the Venezuelan Pre-Olympic tournament qualifying for the Paris 2024 Games.
In this way, the Argentine coaches will constitute 70 percent among the 10 South American teams, since in addition to Lionel Scaloni in his own and Bielsa in the Uruguayan, there are Guillermo Barros Schelotto (Paraguay), Eduardo Berizzo (Chile), Néstor Lorenzo (Colombia ), Fernando Batista (Venezuela) and Gustavo Costas (Bolivia).
Source: Ambito
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