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The Colombian Football Association will formalize the recruitment of Reinaldo Rueda as the new coach of the senior team at any time. The entity’s president, Ramón Jesurún, finalizes the details of the agreement with the strategist, which would have by his side trusted men of many years, physical trainer Carlos Eduardo Velasco and assistants Alexis Mendoza and Bernardo Redín.
The leaders and the new technical staff are in full agreement on the short, medium and long term goals. The salary issue is getting closer and closer, as is the length of the contract, which would eventually be for two World Cup cycles, as Rueda had requested.
In the sporting field, the first challenge will be to regain confidence and unity in the squad, for which the coach will travel to Europe in mid-January and meet the main team leaders in Italy, England and Turkey.
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Then he will have to sign the next four dates for the Qatar 2022 Qualifier. On March 25 against Brazil, in Barranquilla, and on March 30 against Paraguay in Asunción. And in June, the week before the start of the Copa América, the visit to Peru in Lima and the game against Argentina, in the Metropolitano stadium.
Without a break, the team will host the continental tournament, with the responsibility to reach at least the semi-finals.
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In the second semester, it faces three double elimination dates in September, October and November in which the tickets for the World Cup will be practically determined, although there will be four more games between January and March next year.
In dialogue with the newspaper El Colombiano, Rueda pointed out this Friday January 1 that nothing is official. “Many friends have called me to congratulate me, but I have to say that it is not true that I am the coach of the national team. The Colombian federation still hasn’t confirmed anything and I don’t know why some journalists lend themselves to say I’m already the coach.