July 19, 2024, 9:33 PM
July 19, 2024, 9:33 PM
Oscar Villegas is the new head of Bolivia, from under 6 to the senior level. The FBF, chaired by Fernando Costa, is committed to “goes through the sowing” with a project that runs from 2024 to 2034, a proposal that does not seek immediate results, but rather long-term ones.
This is the third coach hired by the current president, since he previously signed Gustavo Costas and Antonio Carlos Zago; he inherited César Farías from the management of the late César Salinas. The head acknowledged that looking for immediate results caused errors which they are now seeking to remedy.
“After a deep analysis of our national team’s campaigns over the last 25 years and after the 2024 Copa América that It exposed a deep crisisis that we are betting on this project,” said Costa, while showing a book containing the basis of the route that will be followed.
There are three pillars: competitions, counting and methodology, and in this aspect the number of games that the boys must play before reaching the senior team is outlined, in addition to incorporating a Director of Methodology and to hunt down talented Bolivians around the world.
Bolivia has 3 points in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, and only in 2024 there are six scheduled matches. The match will start against Venezuela at home (5/09) and will continue with a visit to Chile (10/09). Then come Colombia (L) and Argentina (V) and the match will close with Ecuador (V) and Paraguay (L).
Zago said earlier that his goal was to reach the end of the year with a chance of winning the World Cup, but as the friendly and official matches (Copa America) went by, he changed his speech and spoke of “working for the futureNow, with Villegas at the helm, the focus is on the long term.
In any case, the Cochabamba coach said that they will compete “starting from Venezuela. “There are already people working on that,” he said at the press conference in La Paz. He also believes that they will look for the best men to compete from September.
“We are proposing a total change, “Not only in the way we work with our national teams, but also in terms of components and structures in all aspects,” added Costa. In this regard, the head confirmed that Pablo Escobar and Julio César Baldivieso will no longer be with the Verde.
