Former
Argentina football federation president Luis Segura has said that there
are currently no candidates to replace Gerardo “Tata” Martino as
national team coach
and that the designated Olympic team coach for next month, Julio Olarticoechea, would not be assisted by Diego Maradona.
Martino resigned as head coach of Argentina on Tuesday, less than two weeks after the Albiceleste’s Copa America Centenario final loss on penalties to Chile and days before the Olympic team was to begin training.
Olarticoechea, currently the head coach of Argentina’s Under-20 team, will take charge of the squad for Rio amid the federation turmoil, which Martino cited as one of the reasons for his resignation.
On Monday, the president of the Argentine Olympic Committee, Gerardo Werthein, warned that there was a 50/50 chance that the country would not have a men’s Olympic football team in Rio because the Argentina league clubs had failed to authorise the release of their players.
“There are no candidates to coach the national team,” Segura told Ole and other media outside the federation offices on Wednesday. “Maradona will not be Olarticoechea’s assistant.”
The federation is currently under FIFA investigation and has been in turmoil since former FIFA senior vice president Julio Grondona died in 2014. FIFA stepped in last month and took control from the current leadership and named an emergency panel to manage its affairs.
FIFA has said that a so-called “normalisation committee” of up to seven members “will be in charge of running the daily affairs” of the Argentine body and that elections must be organised by July 2017.
Grondona’s son, Humberto Grondona, a former U-17 and U-20 coach, said Martino was right to resign.
and that the designated Olympic team coach for next month, Julio Olarticoechea, would not be assisted by Diego Maradona.
Martino resigned as head coach of Argentina on Tuesday, less than two weeks after the Albiceleste’s Copa America Centenario final loss on penalties to Chile and days before the Olympic team was to begin training.
Olarticoechea, currently the head coach of Argentina’s Under-20 team, will take charge of the squad for Rio amid the federation turmoil, which Martino cited as one of the reasons for his resignation.
On Monday, the president of the Argentine Olympic Committee, Gerardo Werthein, warned that there was a 50/50 chance that the country would not have a men’s Olympic football team in Rio because the Argentina league clubs had failed to authorise the release of their players.
“There are no candidates to coach the national team,” Segura told Ole and other media outside the federation offices on Wednesday. “Maradona will not be Olarticoechea’s assistant.”
The federation is currently under FIFA investigation and has been in turmoil since former FIFA senior vice president Julio Grondona died in 2014. FIFA stepped in last month and took control from the current leadership and named an emergency panel to manage its affairs.
FIFA has said that a so-called “normalisation committee” of up to seven members “will be in charge of running the daily affairs” of the Argentine body and that elections must be organised by July 2017.
Grondona’s son, Humberto Grondona, a former U-17 and U-20 coach, said Martino was right to resign.
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