The coach admitted to being in a complicated situation after Chile’s defeat against Colombia and at the ANFP he ended up losing weight. However, the payment of any compensation keeps him in office.
Ricardo Gareca continues to captain the national team. At least for now. After the resounding fall of La Roja in Colombia, 4-0 against the coffee team, Tigre, for the first time in his career, admitted that he does not know if he will continue to lead the national team. “Today, I cannot give you a concrete answer. Things always get to me, everyone, just like you, I feel them too, but I’m not used to making decisions in the moment. I want to think, calm down. It is a difficult and complicated process. I’m not here to make a decision today. I need to calm down, to calm down, to be with the leaders, with my coaching staff. I am not able to express my decision to leave office. “I’m used to thinking about every decision I make,” the coach said at the press conference.
In Quilín, the coach did not convince. “He’s an old technician”, we comment Juan Pinto Duran. Of course, at the ANFP, we know that firing him is an impractical scenario. “We always meet to do a complete analysis. Logistics, everything. This is done cold. We will speak to Ricardo. “Any decision made must be cold,” he said. Pablo Milad in Barranquilla. “You have a current contract” he added.
On the part of the governing body of Chilean football, they are complicated by the payment that the possible departure of the Argentine would mean. His contract payment involves $3.7 million per year. The amount is slightly higher than that received by Eduardo Berizzo and his collaborators: 2.7 million dollars. The arrival of Toto was already an important step. His predecessor, Martín Lasarte, pocketed $1.5 million.
The link with the coaching team of the former Peruvian coach lasts until the end of the qualifiers and is automatically extended if qualification for the World Cup is obtained. Something that seems very distant today. Chile is last in the qualifiers, with five points from 10 games. The document that unites Gareca with La Roja, however, includes a clause that would allow early departure without payment of compensation. One which is catastrophic from a sporting point of view: finding oneself without the mathematical possibility of reaching the maximum planetary competition. A scenario that, despite the bad situation of the national team, is still distant, given that we are only halfway through the process and that six castings obtain the direct quota and one goes to the playoffs.
There is no more conviction in the process. Neither from the ANFP, nor from the coach. However, economic calculations complicate federation. The Tiger declares himself in meditation. “This is the first time I’ve agreed to think. Maybe it’s a perception of seeing myself without strength. Have you ever seen me without strength? Times are getting shorter. It’s a reality. Today we start the second round. I can’t hide it either. There are decisions that I don’t make. Leaders also need to think. This is the first time that I have publicly expressed a position that is not definitive. I’m just not used to making burning decisions. This game didn’t work for me, I didn’t like this outcome. But I don’t intend to show any sign of weakness. “I am convinced of what I want,” he declared on Tuesday.
Source: Latercera
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