The coach was on a tour of Europe to meet with Celeste players and his presence in Montevideo was scheduled for this Thursday.
Diego Alonso, the brand new coach of the Uruguayan soccer team, contracted COVID-19, so he will not be able to return to the country on Thursday as planned, the local soccer governing organization reported.
The new celestial DT tested positive, “Which prevents his trip to Montevideo scheduled for December 23”said the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in a statement.
Alonso “is suffering from the disease without symptoms and with total normality“, He adds the text, while indicating that he will soon communicate the” new work agenda “of the selected one.
Alonso, 46, He was on a tour of Europe to meet with several celestial players and its presentation was scheduled for this Thursday.
The new helmsman worked as a coach for Inter Miami of the MLS, one of whose owners is former English star David Beckham, when he was appointed by the AUF to lead the team.
He began his career as a coach in 2011 at the Bella Vista club and then at Peñarol, both from Uruguay, and then had experiences in Mexico (Pachuca and Monterrey), Paraguay (Guaraní and Olimpia) before arriving at Inter Miami.
Alonso replaced veteran Oscar Tabárez, 74, at the helm of the Uruguayan team.
The Maestro, as Tabárez is nicknamed, was ceased by the AUF on November 19 after four losses in a row in the qualifying rounds for Qatar-2022.
The maximum achievement of Tabárez, who led the celestial since 2006, was the conquest of the Copa América in Argentina in 2011 and fourth place in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Alonso has a tough challenge in the South American tie with four rounds to go. In the resumption of the World Cup on January 27, Uruguay will face the fierce Paraguay in Asunción.
With Brazil and Argentina already classified and Ecuador in third place with a high chance of achieving the third ticket, Uruguay, in the seventh step, will fight hard head to head for the fourth space with Colombia and Peru (both with 17 points) and Chile (16), or if he is fifth he will have to play a playoff with a team from another continent. (D)
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