Nicolas Cordova Takes Charge of The Red: Insights and Revelations from the National Team Coach

2023-11-30 14:52:46

Nicolas Cordova recently took interim charge of the bank The Redafter departure on November 16, Eduardo Berizzo given the opaque start of the team in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers.

The former midfielder, former coach of Palestino and Santiago Wanderers, made his debut on the bench of the ‘Everyone’s Team’ a few days ago in Quito with a 0-1 defeat against Ecuador.

Now, the 44-year-old coach with stints in Peru and Qatar is focused on preparing the Under 23 team for the Venezuela pre-Olympicto be played between January and February 2024.

For the Paris 2024 qualifying event, Córdova will have the bulk of the squad that won, under the command of Berizzo, the silver medal at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. A squad that is already being considered in the adult La Roja.

And in dialogue with the ESPN program F90, ‘Nico’ highlighted the good treatment he had with ‘Toto’. “There was an excellent relationship. We were talking about players and Juan Pinto Durán always gave me space to train”, he said.

After that, the current strategist of the national team launched a particular revelation. “Now we try to make the work as open as possible and make sure all the clubs are aware of it (…), not like before where There was a coach who wouldn’t even let me enter Juan Pinto Durán. You know him,” he said.

Given this, the panel immediately jumped and journalist Sebastián Esnaola said “that was Jorge Sampaoli”, to which the DT avoided responding and much less going into depth.

When the Casildense was the coach of the adult La Roja, Córdova officiated them Hugo Tocalli’s technical assistant in the Under 20 team. In 2016, ‘Nico’ confessed: “I never had a relationship with Sampaoli”.

“In the year and a half that I was in the National Team I never spoke to him. Yes, I did it with Sebastián Beccacece and Nicolás Diez,” she added.

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