Israel Damonte reveals he dreams of managing a top Argentine club | OneFootball

Since his retirement as a professional footballer, Israel Damonte began his career as a First Division coach, with stints at Huracán, Arsenal, Sarmiento de Junín, where he left a great cycle, and Colón de Santa Fe, with whom he was relegated in 2023 after losing the tiebreaker against Gimnasia de La Plata.

In an interview with the fan media "En Boca de Todos", the coach who is currently a free agent after his time at Kiwi de Junín, a team he left in October of last year, Damonte revealed that he dreams of coaching Boca in the future and that he is preparing for that.

"I'll be honest with you, I prepare every day to coach Real Madrid and Boca is the Real Madrid today, they are clubs that for me are the biggest in Argentina and among the biggest in the world so what I'm getting at is a club that who wouldn't like to play or coach. Obviously…", he continued.

And he added that he discussed this issue with Gustavo Alfaro: "This is like everything, look. I once talked to Gustavo Alfaro and he told me that Boca is a national team, but every day, and instead when you go to some national team, it's when the players come that week, that the country stops and it's crazy. Now, Boca is that every day".

Also, in this conversation, the coach denied the rumors that went viral a while ago on social networks, which claimed that Marcelo Delgado had him in mind to offer him the position of Boca's manager, something that never happened.

Damonte's admiration for Gallardo In his role as a coach, Damonte has highlighted on more than one occasion the work that Muñeco did at River. In 2022, he publicly supported him when he did not achieve the expected results. "Beyond some moments and the results that perhaps have not been given to him, for me the best is still Gallardo. He is the best even though the team does not have the performance he wants, but he continues to show it year after year and that is important", he replied.

Also, at the time he explained that in 2011 he called him to join Nacional de Uruguay as a reinforcement, which is why he turned down an offer to be a footballer at Jorge Sampaoli's Universidad de Chile. "I had the chance to go to Sampaoli's U, but Gallardo called me and I didn't hesitate", he said.

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