It’s official: Rubén Darío Insúa will be San Lorenzo’s coach

San Lorenzo You already have a new coach: Ruben Dario Insua. El Gallego once again wore a DT tracksuit to Boedo after 15 years without directing in Argentina and after winning the 2002 Copa Sudamericana with the azulgrana team. This is the first big decision of the new sports director, Matias Caruzzowho came to launch the football recovery of a club in crisis.

As reported by the club via its social networks, Insúa will sign his contract this Thursday morning, after will conduct his first training at Ciudad Deportiva and around noon he would appear in front of the media.

El Gallego was finally the choice Caruzzo and the management chose to manage Boedo’s team, which had to raise its low average in the second half of the year.

The decision took longer than expected. The first target is Nestor Gorosito, but Pipo sent word that he would fulfill his contract until December at Gimnasia La Plata. From there, it opened casting with more than half a dozen names listed: in addition to Gorosito and Insúa, Juan Ramón Carrasco, Alexander Medina, Julio Falcioni, Martín Palermo and Mauricio Pellegrino (of the survivors) rotated.

The leadership, in addition to listening to everyone who signed up, ended up prioritizing the idea of ​​getting someone from the club’s kidney for the delicate institutional and sporting moment that San Lorenzo was going through.

On Thursday last week, there was a face-to-face meeting with Gallego that left a very good impression. Insúa, 61, was soaked in the news of the Storm and is willing to accept the promise to put his chest in this complicated situation that coaches swallow every semester.

Rubén Darío will arrive with Fabian Garcia and Roberto Luis Oste, other former Barça players, as collaborators. He has not directed the country for 15 years. The last club was Talleres in 2008. Then, Gallego went through soccer to Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru with different experiences. As DT in San Lorenzo he remembers his South American win 20 years ago, even if the end of his cycle is not good.

Now, everything indicates that he will have a new chance. By the end of 2021, he had hurtful words against Marcelo Tinelli: “The current president, on leave, would not hire me because he hire more capable coaches than me and I would not work with him. One day I will resolve it with him personally.”

And he explained: “I don’t think of him very much as an individual. This is a personal matter. I’ve been in trouble for a long time and he’s been in trouble since he made a mistake with someone. When there is a problem with someone you have to fix it with that person and not hit where it hurts more. “

But Tinelli has resigned from the presidency of San Lorenzo and Insúa is ready to face the challenge of having a table of averages as the main focus.

It’s the Storm will start next season — not this tournament that starts on June 5— in the 20th position of the average table, which will be sentenced to relegation teams located between 24th and 28th place. Currently, there are six points moving away here from that red zone.