Boca sacked Hugo Ibarra: “This coaching staff doesn’t continue anymore,” warned Chicho Serna

Final point. After a couple of weeks of uncertainty and full of rumors, Mouth decided this Tuesday afternoon to fire Hugh Ibarra and will go looking for a new coach with an eye especially in the beginning of the Libertadores Cup. announced it Maurice Serna, member of the Football Council. Until you find the candidate, Mariano Herron and Blas Giunta They will be placed on an interim basis as head of the professional staff.

“This coaching staff is gone. They’ll be there until tomorrow when they say goodbye to the players. They’re our friends, we love them very much, but we’re here to make decisions. We made the decision these days, but the normal thing was that our Vice-President of Europe would return”explained Serna, who clarified that the provision arrives Leandro Graziano AND Robert ‘Titus’ Pompeii.

“If that’s what I want, I hope we get a new coach tomorrow. But those of us who live in the Boca world understand and know that it’s not that easy. We’ll work 10, 15, 20 hours, whatever we have to do to make it consistent with that. what we want”completed the Colombian.

Ibarra’s departure, the chronicle of an announced “death”, took place this Tuesday afternoon after Juan Román Riquelme, vice president of the club, together with the other members of the Football Council with the now former coaching staff of Boca Predio da Ezeiza.

Ibarra had been leading the morning workout and later decided to cancel the workout he had scheduled for the afternoon shift. He had already started tracing the logistics for Saturday’s match against Barracas Central, at the Claudio Chiqui Tapia stadium, for the ninth round of Lega Professionisti, and the trip to Venezuela, where he will visit Monagas on Wednesday, for the first round of la group stage of the Copa Libertadores. This Wednesday he will say goodbye

With Ibarra’s departure consummated, the main candidate to take the reins at the professional squad is Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino, who is in the country after leading the Mexico national team in the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

In the event that Martino, who has not yet responded to any calls, does not accept, Riquelme and the Football Council will be polling for other candidates. Management’s idea is to move away from the policy of hiring kidney coaches from the club and look for one with more expertise and experience.

Ibarra’s cycle lasted 36 games, with 20 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses. In that period he won the professional football championship and a few days ago he won the Argentine Super Cup with a 3-0 victory over Patronato.

Ibarra took office on July 9, 2022, for the seventh round of the Professional League. It was with a defeat against San Lorenzo in the Nuevo Gasómetro 2-1 days after the departure of Sebastián Battaglia. On that occasion he formed a triumvirate with Herrón and Leandro Gracián.

One date later, already confirmed as main DT, with Gracián and Roberto Tito Pompei as assistants, El Negro got his first victory. It was 1-0 on Talleres alla Bombonera.

The run of poor results in the local tournament – drawing at home with Defensa y Justicia and then suffering two defeats in a row, against Banfield away and against the local Institute – signaled the end of an era which has not even been recovered with the Olympic return taking place in Santiago del Estero’s Madre de Ciudades stadium on March 1.