In the era of anxiety, no one rushes Juan Román Riquelme. Always handle the times. He drove them when he used shorts, put the ball under the sole and spread his arm so that no one approached him. He manages them when he uses his leader clothes, club jogging, While we all wonder if the president of Boca has some more urgent task than to hire a technical director. They must laugh at the Ezeiza property when reading the television sockets. They must say – or must say, because Riquelme is the one who proposes and has – that no one understands anything.
The sources repeat that the football council passed the week without calls to coaches. Neither Gabriel Milito nor Gustavo Quinteros nor those of a second line of candidates. Most of the leaders decide to do without the coach when he has aimed at the successor. In the mouth it is different. Everything is different. Its highest authority resolves against the majority opinion. When the team was outside the Libertadores and seemed like a completed cycle, the coach continued. When he had the definition of the tournament in sight, he changed it.
It is evident that Riquelme He decided to throw Fernando Gago before the important matches precisely because he did not trust him for those important matches. I did not mobilize so much who would direct those encounters, I knew who did not want me to direct them. Actually, I was clear about a name: Mariano Herrón. One more time. In April 2023, after the management of Hugo Ibarra and prior to that of Jorge Almirón, Herrón directed his first period of three as interim. The one who departs two months from what happens in Boca finds everything changed; The one who departs two years, finds everything the same.
Herrón will begin his new stage on Sunday against Tigre and his continuity in office, his interim to ratified, will depend on each weekend. If the results accompanied him, he could stay until the end of the tournament. The decision keeps the following logic. If a technician assumed for the local tournament, he would have more to lose than to win. Boca will play the first phases at home, where it becomes strong and favorite. A defeat in this competition would put stones at the beginning of the road. If a technician, on the other hand, assumed in the face of the Club World Cup, would have more to win than to lose: no one can believe that Boca will be a candidate in the United States. The doubt is whether the title in the distorting local scope would be enough argument to legitimize his arrival at the World Cup. A month is too long in the mouth to project.
Riquelme is usually more convinced when he throws technicians than when he hires them. Every so often, Herrón returns because, in short, he represents the continuity of his thought, one of the people who listens to him most about the game and, either by conviction or for respecting the ranges, someone who coincides with him. There is something key to move on: The president of Boca believes that technicians are less important than they are given today. Román decided on a court. Today he thinks as he played. He never considered the coaches fundamental, beyond the second father he found in Carlos Bianchi. Without admiration, it is difficult for there to be love. And Riquelme does not admire those who direct. It was recently defined by the Russian Jorge Ribolzi, who met him when he was Coconut Basile assistant: “He is a boy who does not believe in technicians”. He got into a paradox. He needs them less than others, but he looks for them more and more: he changes them before the year.
The choice of two of the first coaches of their leadership management, Sebastián Battaglia and Hugo Ibarra, recalls that he believed that Boca could win without a great career in the substitute bank. It usually looks for simplicity. This is how it ended up disenchanted with at least the last two, Diego Martínez and Fernando Gago. Both surely think they were free in their decisions. But those decisions have their consequences. That is to say, In the superclassic Gago did not enter Alan Velasco; Beyond that the members of the Football Council can often be taken as intermediaries of what the president thinks, No one forced him to include the most expensive reinforcement in the book of passes. However, that decision was later transformed into an account to pay: It was one of the reasons why they threw him out of office. The club is also uncommon in that aspect. The determinations are subject to the results, yes, but the forms, style, yields also weigh. Boca could lose in the Monumental. But the trigger were the line of five defenders and the passivity of the first half.
In short, Riquelme does not believe he has to break the market with the hiring of a technician. It would be barbaric to work the interim, very knowledgeable about the football that he proclaims. It hardly someone changing their consideration about players and the way of playing. Choose reinforcements. Let do, but then solve from what they did. Maybe he was wrong to day later. Instead of the president who ends up shadowing those who choose, he could have been the technician who tries to direct.
