Mauricio Macri named his 4 candidates for Boca manager | OneFootball

Mauricio Macri, former president of Boca Juniors, put forward four candidates to take over as head coach of the team following Claudio Úbeda’s departure, with a predictable jab at the board led by Juan Román Riquelme.

Amid the constant debates over the footballing direction of the club from La Ribera, Mauricio Macri’s words always make waves. The club’s former president held nothing back when giving his verdict on who should take the bench at La Bombonera, taking the opportunity to fire a political shot at the current administration.

During his remarks, the former president laid out a clear profile of what the team needs and narrowed the list of options down to a select group of former players who left their mark on the club’s golden era. Appealing to a sense of nostalgia.

Macri got involved in the search for the new coach.

“Boca’s coach, if we had a serious club run by a serious board of directors, could only come from [Guillermo] Barros Schelotto, [Martín] Palermo, [Carlos] Tevez or [Rodolfo] Arruabarrena,” Mauricio Macri fired off.

The phrase carries double weight: on the one hand, it puts forward four of the most important figures from his time as an executive; on the other, it strongly questions the club’s current leadership, pointing to an alleged lack of “seriousness” in sporting decisions.

Macri’s candidates.

To justify his choice, Mauricio Macri leaned on the unbreakable bond these names have with the fans and with the blue-and-gold shirt. “They are the four who are in a position to coach Boca, they are our idols and they love it,” he concluded.

Mauricio Macri’s point of agreement with Riquelme

One of the names mentioned by Mauricio was Arruabarrena and, according to reports in recent hours, the club’s leadership has set its sights on El Vasco for a second spell at the institution. That means Macri and Riquelme are aligned in the search for the next head coach.

El Vasco is the leading candidate.

The coming hours will be crucial in determining who will be the coach and whether Arruabarrena ultimately becomes Boca’s manager once again, where he won two titles in his previous spell: the league championship and the 2015 Copa Argentina.

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