BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia parted methods with coach Reinaldo Rueda on Monday, three weeks after they failed to qualify for this 12 months’s World Cup finals in Qatar.
Rueda, 65, took over from Carlos Queiroz in January final 12 months after a spell accountable for Chile however his staff received solely seven of twenty-two video games below his steerage and completed sixth in South America’s 10-team qualifying group.
Even with gamers like James Rodriguez, Luis Diaz and Juan Cuadrado of their ranks, Colombia struggled to hit the online and scored solely 4 objectives of their final 9 qualifiers.
The high 4 groups certified robotically for the finals, whereas fifth-placed Peru face a playoff in opposition to both the United Arab Emirates or Australia.
“The Executive Committee (of the Colombian Football Federation) will analyse and consider its choices…to decide who ought to assume the teaching place,” the federation mentioned in a press release.
(Writing by Andrew Downie, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
