(Reuters) – Chile on Thursday appointed skilled Argentine Eduardo Berizzo as their new nationwide coach following the workforce’s failure to make this yr’s World Cup finals.
Berizzo replaces Martin Lasarte, who was sacked in April after Chile missed out on the finals that start in Qatar in November.
The 52-year-old Berizzo started his teaching profession as an assistant to then Chile supervisor Marcelo Bielsa in 2007.
He has coached since at Argentine membership Estudiantes, Sevilla and Athletic in Spain, and he most just lately led Paraguay throughout most of their unsuccessful bid to qualify for Qatar.
He was given a four-year contract in Santiago and shall be charged with getting Chile again on monitor after lacking out on each the World Cup in Russia in 2018 and this yr’s event.
His first video games in cost will come subsequent month when Chile play South Korea and Tunisia.
“Dear followers of our nationwide soccer workforce, we now have a coach and he’s Eduardo Berizzo,” stated Pablo Milad, the president of the Chilean Football Federation. “He is aware of our soccer and he has huge worldwide expertise. We want him numerous luck.”
As a participant Berizzo loved spells with Newell’s Old Boys, Marseille, Atlas, River Plate and Celta de Vigo between 1988 and 2006.
(Reporting by Andrew Downie; enhancing by Richard Pullin)