Marcelo Bielsa will be presented as the new selector of Uruguay next Wednesday, May 17, at a press conference that will take place at the historic Centenario stadium in Montevideo.
This Friday the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) invited the media to a conference that will take place that day at 12:30 local time (15:30 GMT), although the text did not mention the technical director. However, said instance will be to present to bielsawho reached an agreement with the AUF to become the new coach of the Celeste until 2026.
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With his arrival at Uruguay, bielsa he will become the second foreigner to lead La Celeste, after his compatriot Daniel Alberto Pasarella I did it between 1999 and 2001.
Born in the city of Rosario in July 1955, Bielsa began his coaching career in 1990, ten years after ending his time as a soccer player.
From that moment he led Newell’s Old Boysto the Mexicans Atlas and Americato Velez Sarsfieldto the Spanish RCD Espanyol and Athletic Clubto the French Olympic Marseille and Lilleas well as English leeds united.
He was also selector of Argentina in the period 1998-2004 and Chili between 2007 and 2011. With the Albiceleste he won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
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Uruguay maintains the position of selector vacant since the departure of Diego Alonsowho assumed his position on December 15, 2021 after the departure of Oscar Washington Tabárez and he left it after the World Cup in which the Celeste did not overcome the group stage.
