Jorge Almirón, the manager who was a carpenter before being a footballer and who now has the mission to rebuild Boca

Jorge Almiron (51) came to the bombonera as the last of the afternoon light fell on the neighborhood. Early fans greeted him respectfully but without screeching. Then he entered the bowels of that monster beater, and settled in a box next to Maxi Velázquez, the former Lanús defender who will be his assistant, Raúl Cascini and Mauricio Serna. When he wanted to make it happen, the team that he will start leading was already losing. He had the same surprised face when Colón scored at the end. It wasn’t the best welcomeTO.

The plans are that you meet the team in morning training this Monday. He will then sign the contract and be officially presented at a press conference. This Tuesday he will lead the first training session. You will have drawn your first conclusions. He looked closely. It’s not improvised. You know what the mouth is. Now it’s Mouth.

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But who is Jorge Almiron? The story goes that he knew how to be carpenter time before turning to football. I worked with an uncle because studying and playing football weren’t enough at home. Later he entered a bronze factory, owned by a Chacarita chief. But he was San Miguel he who saw it conditions. And in Los Polvorines he crystallized his dream of becoming a player.

Even if it was inside Mexico, already with a long career, where he began to imagine a future as a coach. With the influence of Ricardo La Volpe, Neither more nor less. Now he hopes, confirmed as coach of Boca, to do better than his mustachioed mentor, who 17 years ago incredibly lost the opportunity to win the Scudetto three times.

Almirón had a greater impact as a manager than as a footballer. And it will be his third cycle in a big club. fan of Independent, had the pleasure of leading the team from the heart without success, like so many other coaches who set foot on Avellaneda’s road. He didn’t do San any good Lawrencebut he is the winningest manager in the history of wool.

Your excursion in Elche From Christian Bragarnik, his previous representative, was not positive at all. He lasted 24 days, 5 games and 15 workouts until he was fired in November of last year. In the 2020/2021 season, marked by the pandemic, he had directed 24 dates at the Elche club. It hadn’t gone much better.

In short, youHe has extensive experience with a 15-year career as team manager and Boca will be his seventh club in Argentine footballwhere he also directed Defense and Justice AND Godoy Cruz. The curriculum vitae, sent to the authorities of the Bolivian Football Federation before the signing of Gustavo Costas, includes Dorados from Sinaola, Tiburones Rojas from Veracruz, Correcaminos from Tamaulipas and Xolos from Tijuana in Mexico; Atlético Nacional in Colombia and Al Shabab in Saudi Arabia.

At 51, hehe bequeaths to a club where he seems to have closed the Xeneize political rift. Maurizio Macri I asked for it Argentina national team when he was president of the nation e Juan Roman Riquelme he chose him to lead the destinies of the institution which consecrated him idol and vice president.

To learn a little more about Almirón’s thought, just review a few sentences. His style is anything but condescending towards the team. “I’m in charge and I’m not friends with the players, we always focus on the game, but I think my percentage is minimal. We are all important. My technical staff, above all, who work more than me and in silence. I rest a lot in them”he said to Clarin.

He will have to work hard in an often difficult locker room for the coaches. Ibarra himself suffered it in his own flesh. Players have let go of his hand lately. Not even with his historical plaque was he able to move the figures.

“Football is there to be seen and copied. Then you have to see how they taught you to play as a boy. And try to pass it on to your players. There is no mystery. We work a little, but those who play and decide are the players. I will never question a player who has tried to quit gambling. It’s what we all work on, it can go good or bad”declared on the way in which the starting from below is considered, sometimes questioned because goalkeepers and defenders touch 70 balls per game, according to the statistics managed by Almirón himself.

Admirer of La Volpe and César Luis Menotti, the style of play was reflected in Lanús, his best work. With the southern team he won the First Division championship, the Bicentennial Cup and the Argentine Super Cup (at Marcelo Gallardo’s River). All these achievements were in 2016. They also reached the final of the Copa Libertadores in 2017, also knocking out the Millionaire of the Dollbut he could not against the powerful Corporation of Porto Alegre.

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