Sergio Gomez and Favio Orsi were presented this Friday at noon as new trainers from Newell’s in a press conference held at the Bella Vista facility, where the team will begin the preseason in the afternoon. In their first contact with the Rosario media, the duo revealed that they began talking with the current leadership more than two months ago and expressed that they will seek to form “a competitive team, at the height of the club’s history.” In addition, manager Roberto Sensini announced that Éver Banega will not continue in Leprosy.
“It was the first coaching staff we sat down to talk to. We are very happy like them, they are hard-working people, with a great track record. It’s what we were looking for,” said Sensini, the person in charge of welcoming the former Platense coaches.
The first to speak was Orsi. “We started getting together two and a half months ago. From the first day we were fully convinced, We heard our desire to go to work at an institution as large as Newell’s. “It coincides with our search,” he responded about the reasons that made them accept the leper’s offer.
. President Boero and Sensini with the red and black technical duo.
Asked about the formation of the squad and the evaluation of the players they have, Gómez indicated that part of that work will be completed in the daily work with the team: “We did a lot of analysis. We have to be calm, with the commitment we must have, to form an intense team with personality”.
He also spoke about the six months they went through without directing again, after resigning from Calamar after winning the 2025 Apertura Tournament. “The title with Platense was well deserved, we had time to think and analyze. We had many proposals. We are where we want to be,” he said.
“We are constantly working on the players, for us the assembly is fundamental in every team. There are days of great intensity coming to form a squad that lives up to the history of the club and that it has to be competitive,” Orsi added.
Announcement
“This Friday, December 19 at 12, the presentation of the new first team coaching staff will take place, through a press conference in the room located in the Jorge B. Griffa Training Center,” read the invitation to the press to attend the first meeting of la dupla Orsi-Gómez with Rosario journalists.
The club made the formal announcement this Friday before noon. “Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez are the new coaches of Newell’s”they confirmed with a post on social networks. They will take charge of the team from the afternoon ahead of the 2026 season.
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December 19, 2025
In the afternoon, the professional team will begin the preseason on the premises, already under the orders of the technicians who led Platense to obtain its first title in the highest category. There is expectation to know what decision will be made with the 14 contracts that expire on December 31.
Sensini announced this afternoon that Banega is no longer a Newell’s footballer, but it remains to be known what will happen, for example, with Carlos González, Luciano Herrera and Víctor Cuesta.
El Rojinegro aims for a profound reorganization based on the new leadership, headed by Ignacio Boero. The sporting decisions that begin to set the course for next season will also be in charge of Roberto Sensini, who will welcome the new coaches.
After a 2025 well below expectations, at Parque Independencia they know that there is no room for improvisation and that each movement must respond to the specific needs of the team.
After the victory in the elections last Sunday and with no time to lose, the president and the manager moved forward with the hiring of the coaches, who six months ago They led Platense to win the 2025 Apertura Tournament.
The duo did not return to work after leaving Calamar in the middle of 2025. Now, they will take on a great challenge for their career, since Newell’s bets on its services and capacity to stay afloat after a very deep sporting crisis, which was felt especially in 2025 until the season ended with a chance of relegation.
Sensini had expressed that the club needed “a technician who is for this moment, Newell’s has a history and we have to respect it, we know that we have to put together a team and that is not easy.”
