The name of Sebastián Beccacece began to zone as a candidate for replace Ricardo Gareca in the Peruvian national team. To the surprise of many, the Defense and Justice coach already knows the local environment and recalled how complicated his first days in Peru were.
At the beginning of 2022, the 41-year-old strategist gave an interview to the Olé newspaper, In this, he revealed how he came to Peruvian football regarding his first experience as a professional.
Rosario said that when he was 22 years old, Jorge Sampaoli called him because he was looking for an assistant at Sport Boys. Without thinking twice, he grabbed his things and left for Lima.
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“After traveling three days in the same bus, without being able to take a shower and with two bags full of things, I had to wait 40 minutes (for Jorge Sampaoli). On top of that I was carrying everything because I didn’t know what I was going to find. Jorge had told me: ‘Let’s see where you can stay, if with a player…’. The truth is, if he thought about it, he wasn’t going,” he said.
In addition, he provided details of what his life was like in our country. “There I had to go to a cyber every night. I was traveling two hours round trip to go to the training place. At 10:00 pm I connected, at 11:00 pm I put on “Pone a Francella”, which was shown on a Peruvian channel, and that was what my life was”, he recalled.
Finally, he indicated that he rejected a proposal to work with Marcelo Bielsa out of loyalty to the “Little Man”. “It was in 2007, when Jorge (Sampaoli) kicked us out of Sporting Cristal. Marcelo called me to be part of a new coaching staff, and I told him ‘no’ because I thought it was the right thing to do”assured.