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The technicians who will seek glory in the World Cup in Qatar-2022

One of the most complex tasks of football is to be a coach of a national team. A coach, backed by a small task force, selects the best players to try to make happy millions of people who are eagerly waiting for their teams to advance as far as they can in the World Cup.

In his task he has to deal with the egos of super stars, since the templates are worth millions of dollars.

Didier Deschamps, strategist who led France to win its second World Cup in Russia-2018, it will repeat functions in Qatar. The 53-year-old Frenchman, with gray hair and a hard expression on his face, was also world champion when he was a player at France 1998, which makes him the only one to arrive in Qatari territory as a winner in both facets.

However, he is not the only one will sit on the benches of the stadiums of the Middle Eastern country after stepping on the courts. Cameroonian Rigobert Song (46 years old) was in the 1994, 98, 2002 and 2010 World Cups as a player.

The same will happen with the Spanish Luis Enrique, 52, who will have his first World Cup as a coach in Qatar, but he already knows what it is to be in a World Cup because he played it in 1994, 1998 and 2002. Another similar case is the of the Argentine Lionel Scaloni, who at 44 will arrive as one of the coaches younger debutantess and with the weight of trying to guide the gauchos so that Messi becomes champion.

Defend the country?

23 of the technicians who will arrive in Qatar are in charge of the teams of their countries: Akira Nishino (Japan), Gregg Belharter (United States), “Tite” (Brazil), Diego Alonso (Uruguay), Aliou Cissé (Senegal), Hansi Flick (Germany), Fernando Santos (Portugal) and Gareth Southgate (England), just to give a few examples, they will seek to put the flag of their nations at the top of football.

While the remaining 9 will represent other countries. Among the foreigners is the Colombian Luis Fernando Suárez, 62, who will face his second world event as a strategist with the Ticos (the first was Germany 2006 with Ecuador, in which he reached the round of 16).

For its part, Argentine Gustavo Alfaroone of the oldest rookies (60 years old), will be in charge of Ecuador, which he qualified in fourth place in Conmebol after completing a good tie and finishing with 26 points.

One of the most prominent is the 47-year-old Englishman Jhon Herdman, who will be with the Canadian National Team. The British had a long journey at the head of women’s national teams. He was the one who took New Zealand to the 2007 and 2011 World Cups. While with the Canadian women’s national team she played the 2015 World Cup, which was held in North American territory.

Argentine Gerardo Martino, 59, who will be with Mexico, also stands out. The first time he attended a World Cup was in South Africa 2010, when he reached the quarterfinals with Paraguay, eliminated by Spain.

Likewise, the Qatar coach will repeat, Spaniard Felix Sanchez Bas47, who arrived in the Qatari country in 2006 and since 2017 has been in charge of the senior team.

young and old

At the 2022 World Cup there will be a mix of coaches youth and veterans. The youngest is the Argentine Lionel Scalonni, 44, and the oldest is the Dutch Louis Van Gaal, 71.

The Netherlands Helmsman will play his second World Cup in front of “A Clockwork Orange”. The first was in Brazil 2014, in which they finished in third position after beating the locals 3-0.

The other experienced is the Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzki, 70, who will guide the Moroccan players. Since he was in South Africa 2010 with the Ivory Coast and in Brazil 2014 with Algeria. In 2018 he qualified Japan for the championship that was played in Russia, but he was fired from the position before the start of the tournament.

The ages of the selectors who will be in Asian territory from November 20 range between 47 and 62 years.

The majority, like the Croatian Zlatko Dalic, who is 55 years old and was runner-up in Russia with his national team, will seek to keep the title of the 22nd edition of the highest soccer tournament.

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