After the defeat suffered by Bolivia in La Paz, the Paraguayan Football Association (AFP) decided to take a turn of the helm to face the final stretch of the South American Qualifiers towards the World Cup in Qatar 2022 by firing Argentine coach Eduardo Berizzo.
The Toto, who took the reins of the Guaraní team at the beginning of 2019, could never find regularity. He was in charge in two weak Americas Cups (both in 2019 and 2021 he was eliminated by penalties in the quarterfinals) and today he is out of the positions that grant a ticket to the next World Cup.
The AFP began to move to look for a replacement for him and all roads lead to Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Who is free after his departure from the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS at the end of November 2020. In the last hours they settled differences and everything indicates that they will reach an agreement that could last until the end of the Copa América in 2024.
The Millizo began his journey as a coach in July 2012 in Lanús, where he lifted a South American Cup and was runner-up in the Argentine tournament. After a short stint at Palermo in Italy, he landed in Boca. Although it was marked by falling in the final of the Libertadores against River, Xeneize won two championships.
It is worth noting that Barros Schelotto knows two of the leading figures on the squad very well, such as captain Gustavo Gómez and Newcastle midfielder Miguel Almirón. Both footballers made landfall at the time Garnet At the express request of the DT (they were recommended to him by his brother Gustavo – he is his field assistant – after seeing them closely during his time as a field assistant to Gregorio Pérez in Libertad de Paraguay).
In this way, Guillermo would become the seventh Argentine to coach the Paraguay team. Before that, there were José Manuel Durand Laguna, Eduardo Luján Mnaera, Héctor Conte, Gerardo Martino, Ramón Díaz and Eduardo Berizzo.
Paraguay, which comes from two defeats in a row, on the next FIFA Date will receive Chile on November 10 and visit Colombia on November 15. The other matches that remain are against Uruguay (L), Brazil (V), Ecuador (L) and Peru (V). With 12 units he appears in the eighth position, four from Uruguay, selected that today would be contesting the Repechage.
In the race to succeed Berizzo, other names of weight also appear, such as that of the experienced Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari. Felipao, 73, is free and had two steps as Brazil coach, where he won the 2002 World Cup in Korea-Japan and the 2013 Confederations Cup. Ramón Díaz (62), who currently directs Al-Nasr de United Arab Emirates and who already has a past as a Paraguayan coach between 2014 and 2016.
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