Argentina’s Eduardo Berizzo has managed just one win in official matches for second-to-last Chile in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, with four defeats in five days. The coach, who also failed in Paraguay, resigned on Thursday evening after a 0-0 draw with Albirroja in Santiago.

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Chile will visit Ecuador on Tuesday, at 2,850 meters in Quito, with an interim coach, while the leadership of the National Professional Football Association decides whether Gustavo Quinteros, the Colo Cola coach and former Emelec skipper, will win the race. Argentine compatriots Ricardo Gareca and José Pekerman succeed Berizzo.

New disappointment with Chile forced coach Eduardo Berizzo to resign ahead of the match with Ecuador, for the South American qualifiers.

And while everything is being clarified in Chile, the former striker of that national team and winner of the World Cup in Spain in 1982 spoke harshly about the present of Araucanian football and blamed the footballers for the disaster.

‘No player’

“For me, the main responsibility lies with the players. When Berizzo arrived in La Roja, one said: ‘He knows the area, he can get something.’ But the essential component is the players. If you don’t have players, it’s very difficult. We have a little, that’s true. But I hope that the technician who arrives will be able to redirect it a bit and make it more aggressive,” Patricio Pato Yáñez said on the radio. Agriculturefrom Santiago, in statements reported by newspapers Fourth.

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Yáñez, a former striker who faced the Tricolor in two qualifying rounds (going to Spain in 1982 and Mexico in 1986) and now a commentator, was scathing and referred to the demise of the so-called Golden Generation. Here’s what he said: “If you don’t have the raw materials, you can bring in Josep Guardiola and nothing will happen. We have no players. And there is no projection response. Maybe in another year, the U-23 boys, who are not qualified to follow the Golden Generation, can work better with another coach.”

And he said of his team’s footballers: “Ben Brereton is still a runner, but he runs more backwards than forwards. Damián Pizarro got in the way and interfered, but did not intervene at all in the attack. The goal is still there, but we are complicated. “Chile couldn’t find a solution to what Paraguay proposed and I attribute that to Berizzo.” (D)