Tick, tock, tick, tock... 11 days after the departure of Hugo Ibarra,
Boca
seems to have everything on track for the arrival of their new DT and the chosen one is
Jorge Almirón
.
After the "no" of Tata Martino and the parade of names that has been going on for a week and a half,
Juan Román Riquelme
is advancing in negotiations with the former Lanús, who would be confirmed in the next few hours and could debut against San Lorenzo, Wednesday the 12th.
Almirón, 51, whose last job was at Elche in Spain - where he did not obtain the expected results and his departure was precipitated in November last year - was always to Riquelme's liking.
Attracted by what was his work in Lanús, where he reached the final of the Copa Libertadores 2017 after eliminating River, the current vice president xeneize at the time tried to make Almirón the first DT of his cycle as leader, although finally the position fell to Miguel Angel Russo.
As it was announced this Saturday, Boca and Almirón are working on contractual details and on the assembly of the coaching staff that the coach will have (part of his team stayed in Spain) and if there were no setbacks, his name could be made official in the previous one. of the match against Colón, which will have Mariano Herrón on the local bench.
With the decision made that the new DT is not from the kidney of the club, as were Ibarra and Sebastián Battaglia, the long list of names that came out and that included Diego Martínez (currently in Tigre), Luis Zubeldía, José Pekerman and Diego Alonso, among others, Boca ended up deciding on Almirón.
In the case of materializing, it will be the return of Almirón to Argentine soccer after his second stint at Lanús, which ended in July 2022. His career as DT began at Dorados de Sinaloa in 2008 and in Argentina he directed Defense and Justice , Godoy Cruz, Independiente, Lanús and San Lorenzo.
