Uruguay has three technical candidates to lead the celestial; one of them is Diego Aguirre who was in the Aucas

The names of three coaches are on the table of the authorities of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) to direct the Celeste after the “priority”, which was the Argentine Marcelo Gallardo, announced this Wednesday that he will continue at River Plate.

Uruguayans Diego Aguirre, Diego Alonso and Alexander Medina They are the ones who have the support of the directors of the local soccer governing body, which expects to make a decision in the coming days, after the most desired renounces to cross the Río de la Plata to relieve on the Celeste bench to Oscar Washington Tabárez.

“In that first contact (Ignacio) Alonso told us that the AUF had unanimously decided that Marcelo should be the coach of the Uruguayan team,” he said this Thursday Juan Berros, representative of ‘Muñeco’, during an interview with local radio Sport 890.

Berros highlighted that there were “no less than three contacts with the AUF” and that, from the beginning, he made it clear that Gallardo “had a link with River and was not going to make a decision at that time”, when the championship had not yet concluded Argentine, who later ended with title ‘millionaire’.

“I told the leaders that nothing was going to be resolved until the priority was resolved, which was if Marcelo continued in River,” he said in the interview on Thursday and added that called the president of the AUF “to tell him the decision” shortly before Gallardo announced his continuity in Buenos Aires this Wednesday.

The renewal of Uruguay’s bench is imperative after the dismissal of ‘Maestro’ Tabárez on November 19 after more than 15 years at the helm of the team that won the Copa América in 2011 and reached the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. , in which Diego Forlan he was voted best player of the tournament.

The urgency stems from the fact that there are only four dates left for the conclusion of the South American qualifying rounds of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in which Uruguay occupies seventh place -equalified with Chile, sixth- and, for the moment, would be out of the Cup for the first time. time since Germany 2006, which was not classified.

La Celeste travels to Paraguay on January 27 and receives Venezuela on February 1 to conclude at home against Peru (March 24) and as a visitor against Chile (March 29).

Of the three applicants, Diego Aguirre, who led Sociedad Deportiva Aucas de Ecuador in 2006 and Current coach of the Brazilian International, he is the one who has the most support, to the point that in October, when there was talk for the first time about a possible removal of Tabárez, he was the first mentioned.

Whoever it was champion of the Copa Libertadores in 1987 when he played for Peñarol, he already knows what it means to win as a coach both in Porto Alegre and in the Uruguayan team itself and in the Qatari Al-Rayyan.

Two other candidates are the current coach of the Córdoba workshops, Alexander Medina, who has had an excellent campaign in Argentina, although last night he lost the Cup final against Boca Juniors, and the former player of the Spanish Atlético de Madrid, Valencia or Málaga Diego Alonso, who is without a team after directing in Paraguay, Mexico and the United States.

They are added Fabián Coito, former Honduran national team coach and closely linked to La Celeste in its youth categories, whose name has also been seen in the local press, although he himself acknowledges that no one has consulted him about it. (D)