Chiqui Tapia: "I know that as soon as Scaloni comes to Buenos Aires, he will sign his contract"

"I am traveling to Buenos Aires these days. I hope to sit down with the president and then see if we reach the agreement we want."

Those were the words of

in a note with Radio Cope, when they asked him about his continuity at the head of the

.

A declaration of hope in the midst of so much uncertainty.

Days later, just on the anniversary of the title in

,

, president of AFA, wanted to clear up all doubts,

"When the Gringo comes, who is on vacation and enjoying his family, we will sit down and finish what needs to be finished.

Sometimes there are minor issues, which must be finish them, and that is the only thing that is missing," said Chiqui in dialogue with radio station La Red.

And to cut off the speculation definitively, he ratified:

because it is what we all want and it is what we are committed to, both the Gringo and I In addition, he stressed that the players of the National Team

the same as the leaders of the Executive Committee.

That is why I insist that as

To close, he explained: "

And that was seen when we started the World Cup with eight starting players who had never played it and we ended with a 21-year-old boy like Enzo Fernández being the revelation.

Scaloni: trip to Argentina and the future we will see

A colorful, relaxed interview, in which the coach of the National Team recounted sensations, described unforgettable moments, recounted that he did not see the final again, expressed

changes his tone radically when he suddenly starts carving

Because as

anticipated on December 23,

"We will announce what has to be,"

Lionel Scaloni anticipated on Cope chain.

His renewal, of course, is not assured, let alone resolved.

Negotiations persist,

While some debate

and who gives the list of summoned for that double date that In principle, it was projected as a moment of celebration.

The DT, who has been in Mallorca since the early hours of this incipient 2023, appeared at a match of the Island team and had been giving some interviews to the Spanish media, surprised by speaking for more than an hour in a note in which he He was smiling, calm and played all the songs.

Although only in two minutes of the conversation did he become serious and somewhat tense: when they brought up the issue of whether he would continue in the National Team.

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That's the idea and I don't know the day I'm going to travel because I'm fine with my family here.

And enjoying these days.

Doubts...

Scaloni, there, modified the gesture and was no longer so relaxed.

The interviewer noticed and tried to change the subject, but from Buenos Aires,

In that round trip,

, once the last tour prior to the World Cup was finished ) beyond the fact that not everything was agreed... “I don't know what to tell you about that.

I

The best!

I really appreciate the opportunity that he gave me to have been in charge of the National Team and now, when I go there,

the DT closed the topic of his future.

Tapia knows that the negotiation is not easy.

When

showed that there was no fine tuning, that there were many points to be resolved, the president showed his political waist and before the end of the year he came out to say that

The concrete thing is that all the contracts of the coaching staff have expired.

At the moment -beyond the fact that it seems like a colored fact- the National Team does not have a coach.

For some time the representatives of the DT (and the entire coaching staff) have been having negotiations with people from the AFA and with Tapia himself, but not much progress was made.

And so?

He still does not have tickets and when the first month of the happiest moment in Argentine soccer is over, the other final will begin to be played.