By Gura Garcia
May 19, 2024, 09:13 AM EDT
AC Milan has among its plans to be able to make quite important changes to its benchafter a season full of many sporting failures, especially due to the elimination of the red and black club in what were the quarterfinals of the Europa League against Roma and seeing again how Inter would win the Scudetto of Serie A in Italy.
Would Scaloni arrive to get back on track?
According to information released by the Italian sports media, La Gazzetta dello Sportone of the names that continue to make the most noise in the Rossonero team’s deck of options to take charge of the bench, is coach Lionel Scaloni, coach who led Argentina to become world champion in the 2022 Qatar Cup.
The recent departure of Pioli, former Milan coach, was practically a fact after of a series of negative results that included the elimination of the Europa League in the quarterfinals at the hands of Roma and in the Italian Cup against Atalanta, added to the constant complaints from the club’s ultras about irregularity throughout the season .
🤌🏼 THE TANOS WERE CONFUSED
🇮🇹 According to Gazzetta Dello Sport, Milan would have offered the position of coach to Lionel Scaloni just 35 days before the start of the Copa América. pic.twitter.com/5lDp3bcZRr
— El Grafico (@elgraficoweb) May 18, 2024
“Milan, however, has evaluated many other coaches in recent weeks. and several profiles have been reported. The most sensational is Lionel Scaloni, the coach who was world champion with Argentina in Qatar. “Milan considers him a coach with the right identity: fascinating, ambitious, with modern ideas,” the newspaper stated.
The aforementioned Italian sports media also made a point of pointing out that from the offices of the club have already contacted Scaloni’s agents. “There have been no appointments, only telephone contacts, but the operation would not be impossible. Of course, Scaloni would not make it until the end of the Copa América (July 14), but he would be willing to leave Argentina to coach the first team of his life,” was the information that spread immediately and set off alarms throughout the country. Argentina.
Copa América in Scaloni’s mind
Despite all the information disseminated by the Italian media, Scaloni today is completely concentrated on what will be the upcoming Copa América that will be held on American soil and in the coming weeks will announce the list of the team that will be competing in said tournament.
Scaloni in the albiceleste team
Scaloni took charge of the Argentine national team after the 2018 Russia World Cup and managed to mark an era after winning the 2021 Copa América against Brazil at the Maracaná Stadium and later beating Italy in the Finalissima and then winning their third world cup against France in Qatar 2022. Now the mission for Scaloni and his players is to be able to revalidate the 2021 championship but this time in the United States where they will have to face the combined Chile, Peru and Canada in Group A.
Another Argentine is also considered in Milan
Marcelo Gallardo is another of the names that is in Milan’s options folderespecially because the Argentine coach was recently released from Al Ittihad of the Saudi Pro League and would be looking for a new club and in Italy they would not take a dim view of his possible arrival.
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