Jorge Almiron, Former coach of the Argentines Godoy Cruz, Independiente and Lanús and Elche, among others, became the new coach of Boca Juniors, the xeneize club reported on its social networks on Monday.
“Jorge Almirón, welcome home,” Boca announced on his official Twitter account along with several images of the Buenos Aires coach directing his first training session.
Almirón lands in Boca in substitution of Hugo Ibarra, fired on March 28, and with the main objective of achieving the seventh Copa Libertadores in the entity’s history. In fact almironIn addition to winning three local titles in 2016 (League, Bicentennial Cup and Super Cup), he led Lanús to the Libertadores final in 2017. He has led Elche in two stages recently: from August 2020 to February 2021 and between last October and November.
To ten points of River
Until today Mariano Herron He has served as interim coach in the last three games for Boca, 12th in the Argentine championship, ten points behind his eternal rival and leader River Plate after the first ten days. The ‘xeneize’ have only won one of the last five games.
