After a start in the Professional League with several adverse results, Julio César Falcioni he stopped being the coach of banfield. This was announced by the club through a statement explaining that it was a agreed measure between the parties.
“After a meeting held yesterday between the leadership and the coach, this decision was reached by common agreement, which was made at the beginning of the tournament break and 34 days before the restart of the competition,” reported the Drill on their official social networks.
“As always, we thank Julio for his unwavering willingness to collaborate with our institution,” was added in the brief statement.
The board will take advantage of the break in the Copa América competition to find the new coach. According to them, For now there are no names in the foldersince they first wanted to seal the exit of the Emperor before starting the search for his replacement.
“Just from this moment, the Board of Directors is dedicated to searching for options for leading the first team with the idea of being able to announce the new coaching staff in the coming days,” they said.
Falcioni, from 67 years, thus closed its fifth cycle in the South Buenos Aires team, since 2003 to date. His last stage had started in May 2023 and since then he directed 44 matches, of which he won 15 matches, drew 12 and lost 17 (he got more than 43% of the points at stake). In the current Professional League he added 4 units after five dates, the result of a victory, a draw and three falls. He had a contract until next December.
In total, he directed a total of 324 matches in Banfield and went down in history for having won the Apertura Tournament 2009 with a team in which they stood out James Rodríguez, Santiago Silva and Walter Ervitiamong others.
With the departure of Falcioni, there are now 15 First Division teams that have changed their coaching staff so far this year. They only kept their coach Argentinos Juniors, Barracas Central, Boca Juniors, Estudiantes, Godoy Cruz, Instituto, Lanús, Racing, River Plate, Rosario Central, Talleres, Unión and Vélez Sarsfield.
THE LIST OF COACHES CLUB BY CLUB IN 2024:
· Argentinos Juniors – Pablo Guede
· Atlético Tucumán – Orsi/Gómez (Diego Barrado) and Facundo Sava
· Banfield – Julio Falcioni (and now momentarily without coach)
· Central Barracks – Alejandro Orfila
· Belgrano – Guillermo Farré (Norberto Fernández) and Juan Cruz Real
· Boca Juniors – Diego Martínez
· Central Córdoba – Abel Balbo (Juan Carlos Roldán) and Lucas González Vélez
· Defense and Justice – Julio Vaccari (Pablo Quatrocchi) and Francisco Meneghini
· Deportivo Riestra – Matías Módolo and Cristian Fabbiani
· Students LP – Eduardo Domínguez
· Gymnastics LP – Leonardo Madelón and Marcelo Méndez
· Godoy Cruz – Daniel Oldrá
· Hurricane – Facundo Sava (Walter Coyette) and Frank Kudelka
· Independent – Carlos Tevez (Hugo Tocalli) and Julio Vaccari
· Independiente Rivadavia – Rodolfo De Paoli (Federico Arias) and Martín Cicotello
· Institute – Diego Dabove
· Lanús – Ricardo Zielinski
· Newell’s – Mauricio Larriera (Adrián Coria)
· Platense – Sebastián Grazzini and Favio Orsi/Sergio Gómez
· Racing – Gustavo Costas
· River – Martín Demichelis
· Central Rosary – Miguel Ángel Russo
· San Lorenzo – Rubén Darío Insúa and Leandro Romagnoli
· Sarmiento – Sergio Rondina (Martín Funes) and Israel Damonte
· Workshops – Walter Ribonetto
· Tigre – Néstor Gorosito (Juan Carlos Blengio) and Sebastián Domínguez
· Union – Kily González
· Velez – Gustavo Quinteros
*In parentheses are the interim coaches
