11/14/2023 12:07 p.m. Updated on 11/14/2023 5:01 p.m.
Esa “beautiful story” what Marcelo Gallardo summed up a little over a year ago, the day he announced that he was no longer the coach of Rivercould never have existed if that interest of Newell’s For him he arrived a few days before Núñez started looking for a person for the position he had left. Ramon Diaz.
The one who came back to tell details was Enzo Francescolithe club’s Sports Director since the end of 2013: “I had other alternatives to Gallardo. In fact, I told him that in honor of our friendship, I had spoken with Martino before him. He seemed like the guy who, to my and River’s football idea… Came from Barcelona. But he thanked me very kindly and told me that he is waiting for a topic from the National Team.. He had that aspiration that he later achieved,” he commented, recalling one of the most important moments of his management.
Of course, Tata – today directing Lionel Messi at Inter Miami – he left Barcelona when the 2013/14 season ended after a tenure in which he only won the Spanish Super Cup: in the League he finished second in the Atlético de Madrid and in the Champions League he said goodbye in the quarterfinals, also against Cholo Simeone’s team. An adventure that, despite the fact that it lasted barely a year (it had been a surprise when he took over, given that he came directly from Newell’s), sparked interest in River.
But the National Team had already surveyed it for the Sabella post: Almost a month after the lost final against Germany in the World Cup, Martino would end up taking on the great challenge, in which he lost in two Copa América finals (2015 and 2016).
Enzo and the Doll have been friends since they shared a team (Prensa River).
What did Francescoli, so? Meet with Gallardo and begin to shape the most winning cycle in the history of the club that they both dreamed of but that was not in the plans for it to happen so quickly. “So I went to the office there, talked to Marcelo and told him the situation. ‘Did you see what River is? It’s a mess, there are all the journalists…’, I told him. I hate those exposition things a little. I told him that on Monday or Tuesday we would sit calmly, that there might be no rush. And he replied: ‘But Flaco, I gave my word to Newell’s, I have to decide before tomorrow at 12 noon.’ ‘Ahh, that’s something else,’ I said. Then I made a call and that’s how his story began, which ended how it ended and what happened happened.”pointed out the Enzosketching a smile at the end, in dialogue with Clank Media, Juan Pablo Varsky’s channel.
Yeah Enzoit ended the way it ended and what happened happened: it was the most important plenary session in the history of the club…
Francescoli’s confession
2023-11-14 17:01:42
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