The National Professional Football Association (ANFP) of Chile announced this Thursday the arrival of the Argentinian Eduardo Berizzo as the new technical director of La Roja, a squad that is going through a complex moment after failing to qualify for Qatar.
Through a public statement released this afternoon, the governing body of Chilean soccer reported that it had reached a “complete agreement” with the strategist and his technical staff, pending his official presentation to the press next week.
It is, according to the president of the federation, Pablo Milad, of a “great connoisseur” of Chilean football who has “vast national and international experience”.
“We wish him the best of luck in this new process, towards the qualifying rounds and the international commitments we have,” added the leader.
Berizzo has steps as a coach by Estudiantes de la Plata (Argentina), O’Higgins de Rancagua (Chile) -team with which he won the title in 2013-, as well as Celta de Vigo, Seville and Athletic (Spain).
His last experience as technical director was at the head of the Paraguayan national team, a team from which he was released due to his negative results in the campaign towards the next World Cup, leaving the Guarani team located in the eighth position in South America.
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One of the biggest challenges of Chilean football today, after its elimination from the World Cup race, will be to promote a process of generational change due to the decline that referents such as Alexis Sánchez, Arturo Vidal, Gary Medel and Claudio Bravo.
These players, leaders of the so-called ‘Golden Generation’, led the conquest of two consecutive editions of the Copa América, in 2015 and 2016.
La Roja closed their participation in South American qualifiers in seventh place with 19 points in 18 games, with nine losses, four draws and five wins.
Last April, the former coach of the Chilean team Martín Lasarte he was dismissed by the local federation after failing to meet the objectives set at the beginning of the process.
