With complete confidence in his players, Diego Alonso took over this Tuesday as the coach of the Uruguayan national team, convinced that Celeste will recover in the Qualifiers and qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Alonso assumes command of the team amid a deep crisis of results that caused the departure of veteran Oscar Tabárez and left the Uruguayans out of the classification zone with four games to go before the end of the tournament.
“I deeply believe that Uruguay is doing things the way they should be done at the next World Cup,” Alonso told a news conference at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.
“The confidence I have in the national team players” is total, “what they have done and can do is infinite,” said the former Inter Miami coach of Major League Soccer.
‘El Tornado Alonso’, the nickname he gained when he was a forward for Celeste, took advantage of the long press conference to praise the Uruguayan players, but did not want to name anyone in particular.
The new coach is expected to release his first squad at the end of this week with traditional names like captain Diego Godín and forwards Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani, but also with some news.
Argentine Independiente goalkeeper Sebastián Sosa could be one of the biggest surprises in the squad, according to local media.
With Brazil and Argentina already classified and Ecuador in third place, Uruguay, which is in seventh place, will fight for fourth position – the last one that ranks directly – with Colombia and Peru (both with 17 points) and Chile, with 16 points, as well as Celeste.
The fifth place must play a playoff with a team from another continent.
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