The leadership of Newell’s reached a verbal agreement with Sebastián Méndez to become the new technical director of the first team, replacing the Uruguayan Mauricio Larriera. Only details remain for the club to formally announce it.
After some refusals and a list of options that included Gallego and Javier Sanguinetti, who met with president Ignacio Astore last weekend, finally Méndez’s recent steps through Unión and Vélez seem to have weighed more than those of Archu through Banfield and Huachipato in Chile.
This better present, in the consideration of the leprosy leadership, made the efforts for the former defender accelerate, who last year He left Tatengue in the middle of a good season before the call of Fortínthe club of his loves that was complicated by relegation.
Despite the criticism received from Santa Fe for leaving untimely, Méndez saved the Liniers team and kept it in Primera, although in December 2023 he decided to resign from the position and has not worked since then.
El Gallego is 46 years old and had been offered to Lepra by representative Cristian Bragarnik. After the refusals of coaches like Eduardo Berizzo, Alfredo Berti and Sebastián Beccacecethe leadership had to choose between him and Sanguinetti, who was already at the club.
With the path paved, this Tuesday it was learned that Méndez is the name selected by Astore and manager Ariel Michaloutsos. Some formal details still remain to be defined to announce his arrival at Independencia Park, but the idea is that can take over next Monday when the team begins the preseason at the Griffa Center.
