This Tuesday the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) He reported that Diego Alonso He is the new coach of the Uruguayan team after having fired Oscar Washington Tabárez in November. The man who comes from having a brief stint at Inter Miami in the MLS will have the mission of leading his country’s team to the World Cup in Qatar and of being able to raise the level of play that the team has shown in its latest presentations.
Since the departure of the Maestro, names like Marcelo Gallardo, Fabián Coito, Diego Aguirre and Alexander Medina had sounded strong in Montevideo, but finally the Executive Committee leaned towards Alonso, who at 46 years old has stood out at the head of Bella Vista and Peñarol in his country, but also had cycles in Guaraní and Olimpia in Paraguay, Pachuca and Monterrey in Mexico. With Pachuca he also won a Mexican league and his team was third in the 2017 edition of the Club World Cup.
As a player, he served as a forward for clubs such as Valencia and Atlético Madrid in Spain, Peñarol and Nacional in Uruguay, and Pumas in Mexico.
:quality(85)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/YQUJWINANVDRDPMX4XXHCAYD2U.jpg 420w)
Now he will take command of The light blue currently in seventh place (outside the qualifying zone) of the South American Qualifiers standings with 16 points, the same as Chile and only one less than Peru and Colombia. Does five games that he did not win and had four consecutive defeats. Their last pair of victories came in September, against Bolivia (4-2) and Ecuador (1-0) in Montevideo.
In the next double date, between the end of January and the beginning of February 2022, Uruguay will face Paraguay in Asunción and then will be local to Venezuela, the two worst combined teams on the continent, so it will have no margin for error. Later, Qatar will qualify against Peru and Chile in March.
Tabárez had been in charge of the Uruguayan team for more than 15 years, a cycle where many players were empowered and the results were positive: Uruguay finished in fourth place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (third place) and the following year was champion of the America’s Cup. In Brazil 2014 they fell in the round of 16 and Russia 2018 reached the quarterfinals after qualifying second in the Playoffs.
KEEP READING:
