Leonel Álvarez again to Colombian soccer

With the shut of competitions approaching, the groups eradicated from the semifinal quadrangles of the BetPlay II-2023 League have already begun to plan what would be the new sports activities cycle for subsequent yr.

Deportivo Pereira is a kind of golf equipment that’s already serious about what the 2024 competitions shall be like and with the purpose of dominating the FPC once more, they’d virtually have secured a high-end coach after the departure of Alejandro Restrepo from dock.

In keeping with journalist Felipe Sierra, the crew from Mateca can be near finalizing and asserting the signing of Leonel Álvarez because the crew’s new technical director, benefiting from the truth that his employment scenario was that of a free agent, after abandoning the ship of Cienciano from Peru in Could.

“With the final particulars resolved in the present day, there may be an settlement on every level for Leonel Álvarez (58) to be the brand new coach of Deportivo Pereira. He’ll arrive this week to be launched. Data with Samuel Duque. Negotiations for renewal and new gamers have already begun.”

The Antioquia coach can be near finalizing his relationship with the membership, after a number of months of contacts and negotiations. As acknowledged on the time, Álvarez’s monetary calls for would have been excessive and the Aurirrojo would have made the trouble to achieve an settlement.

Aside from his wage aspiration, Leonel additionally spoke with the directives to construct a squad in accordance together with his work concept, which additionally immediately represents a great funding to signal and renew some footballers.

Leonel is likely one of the most acknowledged technicians in nationwide soccer and is sort of beloved within the Aburrá Valley. Earlier than linking him immediately with Pereira, within the sporting sphere there was a doable closeness with Atlético Nacional, however after the election of Jhon Jairo Bodmer as helmsman, this chance fully disappeared.

Álvarez is not going to have a simple time directing Pereira, much more so, making an allowance for that he have to be the successor of Restrepo, some of the vital technicians in the complete historical past of this establishment.

Alejandro was not solely the architect of Matecaña’s legendary participation within the 2023 Copa Libertadores, taking them to the quarterfinals (with a victory over Boca Juniors included), however he was additionally the principle pillar for the league championship achieved on the finish of 2022 , which represented Pereira’s first and solely star in its historical past.

Álvarez’s final expertise as a coach was on the beforehand talked about Cienciano, the place in his 5 months of labor he managed to direct them in a complete of 14 video games through which he scored a mean of 1.54 factors per recreation.

Below Leonel’s command, the Peruvian crew gained a complete of six video games, drew three and misplaced 5 different occasions. Regardless of having had an appropriate begin, what took him away from his place was the early elimination from the Copa Sudamericana squad, after having fallen within the earlier part to the group stage.

Santa Fe was additionally occupied with Leonel, however cash was a barrier

Eduardo Méndez, president of the cardinal crew, in dialog with Caracol Radio, acknowledged that after the departure of Harold Rivera from the bench, they tried to barter with Álvarez to signal him, however as a result of excessive cost determine requested by the Antioquian, these conversations by no means occurred. They got here to fruition:

“I spoke with the professor roughly in the past, we have been having some conversations, with a dedication that they’d not be leaked, however then I had a chat whereas on the Colombia recreation and throughout the halftime of the sport we talked and it was not possible, his request is simply too tall”. With Infobae

Associated