Claudio Gugnali with his technical staff, Chiqui Tapia and Bernardo Romeo.
The Argentine Football Federation (AFA) called this Wednesday Claudio Gugnaliformer field assistant of Alejandro Sabella, as coach of the Ascenso Sub-23 team.
“The president, Claudio Tapia, met Claudio Gugnali today to start working in the future with a Selected Sub 23 for Ascent”, announced the Twitter of the Argentina national team.
The technical staff will also complete it Alejandro Friedrich and the physical trainer Pablo Blancowho was also part of the working group of the late DT.
After the agreement, Gugnali said: “With my group we did a survey and there are at least 150 young people to take into account,” he told Radio Provincia.
“I put the project together with my team (of Friedrich and Blanco) and we presented it to Tapia and he liked it. It would be a prelude to Mascherano’s selection.”He added.
The idea is to help the growth of the club’s heritage and also to let the players feel what it is like to wear the black and white shirt. It is an unprecedented project. I have no information that this is done in another country. We will start with the actual work next month. “
In this way, the return of Gugnali will materialize, protagonist of the work that brought Argentina to second world place in Brazil 2014 when he fell in the final against Germany for 1-0 in extra time.
The men’s youth teams are led by Javier Mascherano in the Sub-20, one of the key pieces of that second place, and Pablo Aimar in the Sub-17.
Source: Clarin
