Marcelo Gallardo’s plans for 2023: his new hobbies and why he hasn’t accepted offers yet

Marcelo Gallardo is wanted by several European clubs

Play paddle tennis and golf. He from time to time he goes for a run, not with spirit runner but to feel good and not neglect the physical. He takes the opportunity to spend much more time with his three children who live in Buenos Aires and even traveled to Colombia to visit Nahuel, his eldest son, who plays in Once Caldas. She meets with friends. She watches many soccer matches from abroad and also from the Argentine League. She eats barbecue frequently and sushi at least once a week. And he also studies English, aware that he may very well need to speak that language in his next job destination.

Marcelo Gallardothat strategist at rest, has an inner certainty: He will only listen to offers from the middle of the year. “Marcelo is very clear that he is not going to take any project started,” he told infobae one of the most trusted people Doll given the interest shown by two European clubs in his services: Sevilla, from Spain, and Leeds, from England. That conviction will allow him to take that mental and physical rest that he needed so much after almost eight and a half years of maximum demand as River’s coach.

However, Is Gallardo willing to go to any club in the world from June? There are four European leagues that are your preference: Italy, Spain, England and France. And the Bundesliga? “He doesn’t think of Germany, but I can’t tell you that he wouldn’t go because look if a club like Bayern Munich appears,” said the same source.

Infobae consulted in the closest environment of the Doll if you are open to the possibility of directing a selected one. And the answer was: “He does not rule out any chance and in June he will evaluate all the offers that come to him.” So Brazil is an option? “Marcelo doesn’t like to talk about abstracts. If necessary, he would evaluate it ”. From here we add: the Brazilian Football Federation conducted surveys on his situation and intentions but -at least until now- they have not made him any formal offer.

Gallardo speaks French very well having played for more than six years in Ligue One: between 1999 and 2003 at Monaco, and between 2007 and 2008 at Paris Saint Germain. In English he can also interact, but not as fluently: His greatest knowledge was acquired in 2008, when he played for DC United in the United States. “He is now studying English because he knows that he may need it to lead abroad,” acknowledged one of Gallardo’s best friends.

The authorities of the Ajax They recently found out if he can speak English because he was among the candidates to lead the Dutch team.

Hug between Gallardo and Messi in the last game of the “doll” as DT

In his next adventure as a coach, the third after his successful steps at Nacional de Montevideo and at River, Gallardo plans to work with the same coaching staff that accompanied him at River: field assistants Matías Biscay and Hernán Buján; physical trainers Pablo Dolce, Marcelo Tulbovitz and Diego Gamalero; Mariano Barnao as a sort of versatile right-hand man; and César Zinelli as assistant and goalkeeper coach. He will surely try to convince Jorge Bombicino to continue accompanying him, but it remains to be seen if the kinesiologist wants to return to such a dizzying pace of work.

Every time they call him from a club or Federation, Gallardo’s representative, Juan Berros, He takes the same path: he appreciates the interest and makes it clear that the idea of ​​the “Doll” is to return to the ring in the middle of the year, with the possibility of carrying out a preseason and reinforcing the squad that he agrees to lead to his liking.

Proposals will not be lacking: the polls are many. During his long tenure at River, Gallardo turned down proposals to manage several major European clubs: Barcelona, ​​from Spain; Chelsea, from England; Rome, from Italy; and Monaco, from France. He was also tempted to succeed Oscar Tabarez in the Uruguayan national team, but he said no.

Last month he agreed to travel to Riad to lead to Riyadh Season -a combination of the most important clubs in Saudi Arabia (Al Nassr and Al Hilal)-in a friendly against PSG that the French team won 5-4. They exchanged a few words and gave each other an affectionate hug with Lionel Messi, whom he dreams of directing at some point, and he had Cristiano Ronaldo and Gonzalo Martínez, the Pity, under his tutelage. They paid him very well and he also knew how to take advantage of the marketing side of the match in which Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo once again lived together on a playing field: he once again appeared at the center of the scene, not just for Argentine football but for world football.

Punta del Este and the South of Argentina are the destinations that he most often chooses during the weekends to go to rest and enjoy that idle time that his mind was claiming.

Relaxed and free from the obligations of daily work, last Saturday he took advantage of the trip he made to San Martín de Los Andes (one of his favorite places in the country) to go to Wallüng Patagonia, an electronic party that took place at the polo field El Mountain Resort Challenge. In that complex, River de Gallardo held two preseasons.

In about four months, Gallardo plans to remove the handbrake that he decided to put on his professional life. European football seems to be waiting for him and he is preparing for it while he recharges batteries with his loved ones and his affections.

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