The National Professional Football Association (ANFP) of Chile announced this Thursday the arrival of the Argentine Eduardo Berizzo as the new technical director of La Rojaa squad that is going through a complex moment after failing to qualify for Qatar.
Through a public statement released this afternoon, the governing body of Chilean soccer reported that reached a “complete agreement” with the strategist and his technical staffawaiting its official presentation in front of the press next week.
It is, according to the president of the federation, Pablo Milad, from a “great connoisseur” of Chilean football which has “vast national and international experience”.
“We wish him the best of luck in this new process, heading into the qualifiers and to the international commitments we have“, added the leader.
Berizzo has steps as a coach for Estudiantes de la Plata (Argentina), O’Higgins de Rancagua (Chile) -the team with which he won the title in 2013-, in addition to the Celta de Vigo, Seville and Athletic (Spain).
His last experience as technical director was at the head of the Paraguayan national teama team from which he was released due to his negative results in the campaign towards the next World Cup, leaving the Guarani team located in the eighth position in South America.
One of the biggest challenges of Chilean football today, after its elimination from the World Cup race, will be to promote a process of generational change due to the decline that referents such as Alexis Sánchez, Arturo Vidal, Gary Medel and Claudio Bravo.
These players, leaders of the so-called ‘Golden Generation’ They led the conquest of two consecutive editions of the Copa América, in 2015 and 2016.
La Roja closed its participation in the South American qualifiers in seventh place with 19 points in 18 games, with nine losses, four draws and five wins.
Last April, the former coach of the Chilean team Martin Lasarte he was dismissed by the local federation after failing to meet the objectives set at the beginning of the process.