Jorge Almirón resigns as coach of Boca Juniors after losing the final of the Copa Libertadores

The technician Boca JuniorsJorge Almirón, made the “personal decision” not to continue leading the Argentine team, after losing the Copa Libertadores final 1-2 against Fluminense In janeiro river.

According to what the club communicated “to members and supporters” on its social networks, the 52-year-old coach reported “after 9 p.m.” on Sunday that both he and his coaching staffwith a contract valid until the end of the season, ““They had made the personal decision not to continue as coaches.”

“Our institution appreciates the services provided by all of them and wishes them the greatest success for the future,” added the message posted on the club’s profile on the social network X.

As the local press had reported, the coach met at the Boca Juniors grounds, in Ezeiza (Buenos Aires province), upon returning from Brazil, with the club’s vice president, former soccer player Juan Román Riquelme, to express his intention.

In addition to the defeat itself in the clash, which could have meant the seventh Copa Libertadores for Xeneize, the palpable discomfort within the team Due to some decisions made this Saturday by Almirón during the final, they would have been the trigger for his departure.

One of the most annoying players was the defender Nicolas Figalwho did not wait for the meeting to end and, when He was replaced in the 112th minute by his teammate Bruno Valdez, He expressed angrily before the television cameras: “I can not believe you”.

The Auriazul team has a confrontation this Wednesday against San Lorenzo, corresponding to the League Cup.

This rival was precisely the first he had in his cycle as Auriazul coach, last April.

It is unknown if Mariano Herrón, who already assumed the interim position after the departure of Hugo Ibarra last March in the debut in Libertadores 2023 against Venezuelan Monagas (0-0), He will be in charge of management until the end of the season or another technician will arrive.

Boca Juniors, very poorly placed in the League Cup, in which it is seven points away from the positions that allow it to play in the playoffs for the title, is playing in this final part of the campaign to access the Copa Libertadores 2024 .

At the moment, according to the Annual Table, It is located in the Sudamericana area and three points from the Libertadores posts.

In addition, they are qualified for the semifinals of the Argentine Cup, which they must play this month against Estudiantes de La Plata.

Almirón arrived as coach at Boca Juniors on April 10 to replace Ibarra, who had led the Auriazul team since July 2022 and who was fired on March 28 of this year.

Without a doubt, the main objective this year at the La Ribera club was to reach the seventh Copa Libertadores in the history of Boca, which has not won since 2007 – against the Brazilian Gremio – and whose last final – before the one it lost last night – It was 2018, when they lost to River Plate.

After almost 20 years as a midfielder in teams from Argentina, Chile and MexicoAlmirón began his career as a coach in the latter country, where he had played for 13 seasons.

In his history as a coach, the Mexicans appear Dorados from Sinaloa, Veracruz, Tijuana and Correcaminos, the Argentine Defense and Justice, Godoy Cruz, Lanús, San Lorenzo and Independiente, the Spanish Elche, the Colombian Atlético Nacional and the Saudi Al-Shabab.

Without a doubt, his most notable stage was the one he experienced at Lanús, with which he won three local titles in 2016 and reached the final of the 2017 Copa Libertadores, which his team lost to Gremio.

*With information from EFE.

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