Marcelo Bielsa, closer and closer to La Celeste: in Uruguay they are enthusiastic about a “sports agreement”

Everything indicates that Marcelo Bielsa will once again lead a team of South American football. In Uruguay, the press reports an agreement in principle between the Uruguayan Football Federation and the 67-year-old coach from Rosario to make him wear the Uruguayan national team coaching suit.

Following Diego Alonso’s departure from office following first-round elimination at the World Cup in Qatar, the AUF aimed all its cannons at Bielsa, who had not succeeded since Leeds United in the English Premier League, which fired him in February 2022.

For El Loco it would be the third experience in a South American team after having led Argentina to the World Cup in Japan-Korea 2002 and Chile to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.

According to the sports supplement of the Uruguayan newspaper El País, “The Uruguayan Football Federation (AUF) continues to work to finalize the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa to the technical direction of the Uruguayan team and in the last hours a sporting agreement was reached with the 67-year-old Argentinian. In any case, several other points of the negotiation still remain to be closed, including the economic one, even if there is already a rapprochement between the parties”.

“Progress has been made, but there is no closed deal. It is not even close to closing yet”, confessed an AUF source in statements reproduced by Ovación, the sports supplement of El País. “There are still contacts of all kinds because there are so many details to resolve and agree on,” adds the same source.

What is certain -according to El País- is that there is already a sporting agreement with all that this implies and also, an understanding between what the Executive Committee of the AUF wants and also what the Argentine coach aspires to , so that this will no longer be an impediment to continue negotiating.

But what is not yet closed – as they say from the AUF – is the economic question. “This is about to materialize, but today there is nothing confirmed”.

“There’s a couple who like each other and keep moving forward to seal the relationship”, condemned by the Uruguayan Football Federation, adding that “there is a high probability that Bielsa will become the coach of the team”. To be?