“I am proud to be accompanying this group of players. I feel heard and valued, respected. It is the most valuable thing I can have on a daily basis,” Domínguez said at a press conference.
Asked for a personal comparison with Alejandro Sabellathe coach dismissed it by stating that it is “impossible”, while he referred to the future of some of the team’s leaders.
“We know what we have ahead of us. We have to continue building. What José (Sosa) or Enzo (Pérez) thinks is to build. You see them when things don’t work out. Today they managed to be the best in the League Cup, but we have to keep our feet on the ground“Dominguez continued.
On the other hand, he thanked the fans for their affection in his dream of Santiago: “Very happy when they chant for you like that. I thank the players, they take me to these places“.
Finally, the “Pincha” coach reminded César Luis Menottiwho died today at the age of 85, and referred to the minute of silence that was held before the second half in the final.
“Menotti left a marked mark on Argentine and international football. The people of Estudiantes respect him”Domínguez closed.
Born and raised in Liniers, champion in La Plata
Eduardo Dominguez He debuted as a footballer in Vélez Sarsfield, married Brenda, the daughter of the legendary ‘Virrey’ Carlos Bianchiwho led that team to glory, but this Sunday he became champion of the Argentine League Cup as coach of Estudiantes… by winning the final against Vélez.
Dominguez, 45 years old, he debuted as a defender for Vélez in 1996, in the middle of one of the most successful cycles in the history of the club from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers, but he was only able to establish himself as a starter as a left back, promoted by Julio César Falcioni, the coach at that time.
However, Dominguez He left Vélez in mid-2002, when Falcioni went to coach Olimpo de Bahía Blanca and asked for the loan of the defender, who had a good season, so he was acquired by Racing. In ‘La Academia’ he suffered a serious injury and could only play ten games, so he emigrated to archrival Independiente.
As an Olimpo player, he participated in a game that this team won against Vélez and prevented him from becoming champion, and years later he remembered that “Vélez lent me and other kids. There was a game that we won on his court. That never bothered me. They forgave him”, and since then the link with the ‘Fortín’ was definitively broken.
There was another match remembered as a final, in 2009, when Dominguez He was a starter in Huracán, which arrived as the leader to the last date and Vélez won the title with a 1-0 victory, in which referee Gabriel Brazenas disallowed a goal from Domínguez due to a non-existent offside.
Years later he married Brenda Bianchi, daughter of Carlos Bianchi, the legendary coach who won several local and international titles with both Vélez and Boca Juniors, and in this sense he expressed that “my role model is my father-in-law, because I am very fond of him.” close and has won everything. I try not to copy, but to take several things from him.
His record as a player included a local title with Vélez and an Argentine Cup and an Argentine Super Cup with Huracán. In this club he closed his career from one day to the next, since after a tough defeat the president Alejandro Nadur offered him to be the coach and Domínguez accepted to save the ‘Globo’ from relegation.
In a great campaign, he led Huracán to the final of the 2015 Copa Sudamericana, in which they lost to Colombian Independiente Santa Fe, and in 2016 they reached the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores.
Then he went through Colón de Santa Fe and the Uruguayan Nacional, in which he only lasted eight games although he won the 2029 Super Cup of Uruguayan football in a classic against Peñarol.
He returned to Colón to lead it to the first title in its history, the 2021 League Cup, and leave an indelible memory in the ‘Sabalero’, and then led Independiente with little success and in March 2023 he arrived at Estudiantes, with a campaign in which he quickly stood out.
Domínguez is a low-profile coach, who is not tied to a closed game system, but he does tend to his teams being protagonists, and this year he managed to rebuild a Estudiantes team that suffered several losses, between the retirement of two historical players such as goalkeeper Mariano Andújar and striker Mauro Boselli, and the transfers of four starters.
At the head of ‘León’ he reached the quarterfinals of the Copa Sudamericana-2023, won the Copa Argentina-2023 and now added the 2024 League Cup, his fourth title as technical director, against none other than Vélez, a team that marked his career.
Source: Ambito
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