Jorge Almirón is no longer Rosario Central manager | OneFootball

The decision, already made, would be officially confirmed at the press conference that Gonzalo Belloso, president of Canalla, called for Thursday at noon.

Three days after the 3-0 defeat to Estudiantes de La Plata that left the team eliminated from the Copa Argentina, Jorge Almirón was dismissed from his position as head coach by Rosario Central, which must now speed up the search for a replacement to face the Torneo Clausura and the Copa Libertadores round of 16 after the World Cup.

Although the announcement has not yet been made official by the club, its president, Gonzalo Belloso, called a press conference for noon this Thursday, at which he is expected to confirm the dismissal of the coach whose name has again come up among the candidates to manage Boca.

Almirón only got to manage Canalla in 27 official matches, in which he recorded 15 wins, 5 draws, and 7 losses. He qualified the team for the Torneo Apertura playoffs in fourth place in Zone B and was eliminated in the semifinals by River. He also led them to the Copa Libertadores round of 16, finishing second in Group H with the same 13 points as leaders Liga de Quito. He won the clásico against Newell’s and was eliminated in the Copa Argentina round of 32.

The numbers that support the coach’s stated intention to remain in the job contrast with the fact that he never managed to win over the bulk of the fans. Added to that were the recent statements by Carlos Quintana, a player strongly identified with El Canalla, who said that his decision to leave the club was closely related to the fact that he did not feel valued by the coach.

The defeats against River and Estudiantes were decisive

If Rosario Central’s drop in form in the final stretch of the first phase of the Torneo Apertura had already earned the coach criticism from the fans, the semifinal elimination against River fueled the discontent, because he was blamed for setting up an excessively conservative match, sacrificing a forward to add an extra man in midfield and leaving many of his most game-changing players on the bench, regardless of the fact that many of them were carrying physical issues.

After the thrashing of Universidad Central that secured qualification for the Libertadores round of 16, there was a defeat in Quito that prevented them from guaranteeing first place in the group. But the trigger was the 3-0 loss to Estudiantes, a rival against whom there was unfinished business because of the campaign led by their president Juan Sebastián Verón when the AFA awarded Canalla the league champion title.

The club boss had ordered his players to turn their backs on Rosario Central’s players during the guard of honor that had been arranged by the Argentine Football Association itself for the Clausura round-of-16 match, and then eliminated them by beating them 1-0.

Can Almirón be Boca’s coach again?

Jorge Almirón’s name came up as a candidate to replace Claudio Úbeda, whose contract Boca decided not to renew. The possibility did not come from the club, where silence remains. His departure from Rosario Central will allow him to meet one of the requirements, which is nothing less than being a free agent. His relationship with Juan Román Riquelme, however, does not appear to have ended in the best way. In fact, the man in charge of leading Xeneize to its most recent Copa Libertadores final, in 2023,

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