Gareca returns to the team he made a champion

Ricardo Gareca, former Peru coach and dreamer of taking the reins of the Ecuadorian team, has become the new coach of Vélez Sarsfield, where he played and directed in the past, the Argentine club reported on Wednesday.

This was announced by ‘Fortín’ through a photo published on social networks, where the ‘Tiger’ appears wearing a training shirt and making his fingers a symbol of victory.

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The appointment ends weeks of rumors about Gareca’s return after Uruguayan Alexander Medina left Vélez in technical direction at the end of February after losing on the fifth day of the Argentine championship against Boca Juniors.

Third stage in Vélez

Gareca played at Vélez between 1989 and 1992, and managed its bench between 2009 and 2013, a period in which he won four titles: two Clausura Tournaments (2009 and 2011), an Initial (2012) and an absolute Championship (2012). ) -2013).

Vélez Sarsfield is currently seventeenth in the table, with two wins and two draws after six Professional Football League (LFP) games. With eight points, he is far behind the leading duo, consisting of Defensa y Justicia and San Lorenzo, both with 13.

His record as a player

As a footballer, the former forward developed his career mainly in Argentina, where he played for arch-rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate, for Sarmiento and for Independiente – a club where he won the South American Super Cup in 1994 -, as well as Vélez. He also played for Colombia’s América de Cali between 1985 and 1989.

His record as a coach

As a coach, he led many teams in his country, including Talleres, where he won the Conmebol Cup in 1999; as well as América de Cali and Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia; the Peruvian Universitario and the Brazilian Palmeiras, this in 2014.

There he began his successful work with the Peruvian team (2015-2022), a seven-year period in which the Andean team qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, is about to repeat it in Qatar 2022 and finished second in a times and two thirds. in the Copa America.