Josè Lemme, president of Defensa y Justicia, an Argentinian club from the city of Florencio Varela that recently won the South American Cup, confirmed that he had received a request from the Chilean Football Federation to release the coach Hernan Crespo, who the Chileans would like to be their new coach. of their national team.
Currently the Chilean national team is without a coach, after the farewell to the Colombian Reinaldo Rueda for the disappointing results in the world qualifiers.
At first the executives of Chile had thought of the Spanish Rafa Benitez, who is free after his experience in China at the helm of Dalian, but then they turned to an Argentine technician, given the positive experiences at the helm of the South American 'Roja' by Marcelo Bielsa (to whom they even named the Santiago stadium), Claudio Borghi, Jorge Sanpaoli and Juan Antonio Pizzi.
So the choice fell on the 45-year-old Crespo, who likes the offensive style of the game he gives to his teams.
The technician, who has a family (wife and three daughters) who lives in Italy in Parma, reserved the right to give an answer, "but in any case they have to talk about it among presidents - commented Crespo -. Then Lemme will tell me what his intentions are. ".
Chile will return to the field on 25 March against Paraguay.
