Almost seven months after his departure from
Paris Saint Germain
, the name of
Mauricio Pochettino
began to sound strongly in Europe.
It is that the Argentine DT, who is currently without a team, is one of the main candidates of the Belgian Football Federation to succeed the Spanish
Roberto Martínez
, who left his position in the
Belgian
team after the elimination in the first round in
Qatar 2022.
This was confirmed this Thursday by the Belgian outlet Nieuwsblad, who also indicated that the Argentine is not the only one targeted by former footballer
Frank Vercauteren,
who is in charge of the search for the new DT for the next Euro Cup.
Other important figures also appear on the list of names, such as the German
Joachim Löw
,
world champion in 2014 with Germany, and the Portuguese André Villas-Boas.
Poche is highly regarded in European football and has the advantage that he already knows different players from the Belgian national team such as
Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld, whom he managed at Tottenham.
On Löw's side,
since his departure from the German team after the failure at Euro 2020, he has not directed again
and he would not look badly on returning to activity in charge of another team.
For his part,
Villas-Boas also directed several Belgian players, such as Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea or the duo Axel Witsel and Nicolas Lombaerts
at Zenit.
Roberto Martínez, the new coach of Portugal
Portugal already has a replacement for Fernando Santos to face the next Euro. This is Roberto Martínez,
the Spaniard who left his position at the head of the Belgium team after the elimination in the group stage of the last World Cup.
And he was already officially introduced with a press conference.
The Spanish coach reached an agreement with the Portuguese soccer federation to take over the team from the next Euro Qualifying match.
Martínez will be the person in charge both in Euro 2024 and in the Qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
Martínez achieved the best classification in the history of the Belgian team, with that third place achieved in Russia 2018
.
In addition, he remained at the top of the FIFA ranking for a long time.
Portugal said goodbye earlier than expected in Qatar and with part of the squad dissatisfied with DT, including Cristiano Ronaldo,
who lost his title during the Cup. That is why the Portuguese Football Federation looked for a coach with experience in World Cups and in the management of complicated changing rooms.
"Football decisions have to be made on the pitch. I don't make decisions in the office. My starting point is the list from the last World Cup and Cristiano is a player on that list.
He has been in the national team for 19 years and he deserves respect to sit down and talk. And tomorrow we'll talk," he said about the current Al-Nassr player.
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