Marcelo Bielsa, closer and closer to La Celeste: in Uruguay they are excited about a "sports agreement"

Everything indicates that Marcelo Bielsa will once again lead a team in South American football.

In Uruguay, the press reports an agreement in principle between the Uruguayan Football Association and the 67-year-old coach from Rosario for him to wear the Uruguayan national team manager's jumpsuit.

After the departure of Diego Alonso from the position, after the elimination in the first round in the World Cup in Qatar, the AUF pointed all its cannons at Bielsa, who has not managed since his time at Leeds United in the English Premier League, who fired him in February 2022.

For El Loco it would be his third experience in a South American team after leading Argentina to the World Cup in Japan-Korea 2002 and Chile to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.

Bielsa won the Championship title with Leeds in 2020. (AFP)

According to the sports supplement of the Uruguayan newspaper El País, "The Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) continues to work to finalize the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa to the technical leadership of the Uruguayan team and in the last few hours a sports agreement was

with the 67-year-old Argentine. In any case, several more points of the negotiation still remain to be closed, including the economic one, although there is already a rapprochement between the parties."

"Progress has been made, but there is no closed agreement. It is still not even close to being closed

," confessed a source from the AUF in statements reproduced by Ovation, the sports supplement of El País.

"There are still contacts of all kinds because there are many details to solve and agree on," adds the same source.

Bielsa, with the English second division champion's cup, in 2020. Reuters/Lee Smith/

What is certain -according to El País- is that there is already a sports agreement with all that this implies and also, an understanding between what the Executive Committee of the AUF wants and also what the Argentine coach aspires to, so that this will no longer be an impediment to continue negotiating.

But what is not yet closed -according to what they said from the AUF- is the economic issue.

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"There is a couple that likes each other and that continues to advance to seal the relationship

," they said from the Uruguayan Football Association, adding that "there is a high probability that Bielsa will become the coach of the team."

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