The announcement was made at night by the Colombian Mauricio ‘Chicho’ Sernamember of Boca Juniors Football Councilwho expressed that “everyone in the board of directors has made the determination that this coaching staff does not continue anymore“.
“Not much more to say. ANDWe are grateful to Ibarra, but we are here to make decisions. In these days we had already made the decision, but the best thing was to wait for our vice president to arrive [Juan Román Riquelme] and we did so to deal with this situation,” Serna told the press.
Ibarra’s situation had been left hanging in the balance after a cpronounced drop in equipment performancewho is now in the middle of the table in the Professional League, and in the last three games he only added one pointwith a draw and two losses.
Ibarra’s last game in charge of Boca was last Saturday, in a narrow victory against Olympus from Bahía Blanca (third division), for the Argentine Cupin another match in which the xeneizes showed a messy game, although enough to avoid what would have been a catastrophic defeat.
In his cycle of less than nine months at the helm of Boca, Ibar led 36 games, with 20 wins, 7 draws and 9 lossesand won two titles, the Professional League-2022 and the Argentine Super Cup, a few weeks ago.
“We do things as normal. We understand that Boca has to play much better. They did not find a way back, but we are grateful to them. They faced up to the responsibility, they won two titles, but decisions had to be made,” added Serna.
on an interim basisthe coaching staff of the Reserve division that directs Mariano Herron will be in charge of the Primera squad, pending the election of a new coach, who could debut on Thursday, April 9, when Boca visit Monagas, in Venezuelaby the first date of the Libertadores Cup.
It is expected that Boca will be led by the interim DT in next Saturday’s match against Barracas Central, for the ninth date of the League.
“It is not easy to get a coaching staff for a club as big as Boca. We need a coaching staff that adapts to the quality of our footballers, it is something that will take us several hours or days”, Serna considered.
Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martinowho led the Mexican team in the Qatar-2022 World Cup, appears as the first candidate to succeed Ibarra at the head of the blue and gold team.
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