El Tata is the one appointed by Juan Román Riquelme to take over from Hugo Ibarra and they will seek to convince him to take office. It’s the third time they’ve been looking for him.

Hugo Ibarra was fired yesterday by theBoca Juniors Football Council along with his entire coaching staff made up of Leandro Gracián and Roberto Pompei.

One of the main reasons for this decision was the bad relationship he had with the squad, which peaked after the 3-2 defeat against Instituto, from Córdoba, at La Bombonera, and the team’s lack of play is , of course, the other decisive element for this measure that was not surprising.

Given this, the main candidate is Gerardo Martino . Tata is free, his last job was with the Mexico National Team, which was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup in Qatar, and he would be willing to take over. It will be the third time that Boca is interested in the Rosario, who has already said “no” to the La Ribera club twice.

The first was in the 2010 season, after the departure of Abel Alves, when the coach was in the Paraguayan National Team. The club wanted to have it after the World Cup in South Africa but did not accept.

And the other occurred in 2018 after the departure of Guillermo Barros Schelotto. The one who tempted him was Nicolás Burdisso, the club’s manager at the time, but he had already given his word to take the reins of the Aztec team. In the folder, in addition to Tata , José Pekerman appears, although it would be “plan b”.

Ibarra , meanwhile, led the first team in 36 games, of which they won 20, tied 7 and lost 9. In that period the “xeneizes” scored 44 goals and conceded 33, with 15 unbeaten fences, winning a League title Professional and another from the Argentine Super Cup. The man from Formosa made his debut on July 9, 2022 as technical director, in a 2-1 defeat against San Lorenzo.

Two months later he was confirmed in the position until the end of the season by the president of the institution, Jorge Ameal. Thus Ibarra became the third coach of this successor administration to that of Daniel Angelici, behind Miguel Ángel Russo and the aforementioned Battaglia.