It was a busy weekend in the Chilean federation. Casting for the new coach took much of the agenda. However, the successive telephone calls finally did not leave anything clear about the name of the DT who will lead the Red for Qatar 2022, despite the fact that the ANFP set last Friday as the deadline to announce it since it already closed the name of Matías Almeyda, whose arrival is complicated.
A selection that the players have closely followed, especially Arturo Vidal, the natural leader of this generation of footballers. The Inter Milan midfielder had already made his claims public. A couple of weeks ago, King uploaded a story on his social networks, where he expressed his wish that the next coach would be a professional born in this country.
However, at the weekend he went further in his wishes and communicated this directly to the Anfp authorities. A person close to the player tells what the conversation consisted of, as he told him: “Arturo found out about the candidates for the position and rightly asked why the new coach had to be a foreigner. And he argued that in Chile there were good candidates for the position. On the other side they told him that it was a way of giving some added value to the national team, to which Arturo replied that they as players would also like to know how the issue is going, especially since they are the ones who travel thousands of kilometers to play. in the national team ”.
Coincidence or not, the delay in the arrival of Matías Almeyda (the first candidate) and the impossibility of having Plan B -Hernán Crespo- have made the ANFP change the focus of its candidates. This week two coaches have taken the lead in this race. Through José Luis Sierra, the agency has already contacted Palestino to find out about his conditions. And there is Ronald Fuentes, the recently dismissed coach of Unión Española, a much easier option contractually.
Chilean letters that, curiously, appeared in the famous Instagram story of Vidal vindictive. And so it goes.