Argentina forget Simeone and Sampaoli and already has coach

Edgardo Bauza, coach of Sao Paulo and Brazilian champion of the Copa Libertadores with Liga de Quito and San Lorenzo, is the new coach of Argentina. Bauza, 58 years old, will now have the difficult task to convince Messi to reverse its decision to quit the Argentina team. Simeone and Sampaoli, who were loud, continue training Atletico and Sevilla.

"We decided to name Edgardo Bauza as coach of the national team. We hope you have success we need everyone , " said Armando Perez, president of the AFA normalizadora commission at a press conference.

"We've elected by a lot of features. We were talking to some and found it to be the most successful , " he added.

Bauza, 58, will have the mission to convince Lionel Messi to reverse its renunciation of Argentina selection.

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He won two Argentine league with Rosario Central and a Peruvian Liga with Sporting Cristal.

Edgardo Bauza Martino replaces the front of the Argentina selection

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced the appointment of Edgardo Bauza as new coach, ending nearly a month of rumors and uncertainty following the resignation of Gerardo Martino.

Confirmation of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) came shortly after the Sao Paulo club he served Bauza announced his departure. "Bauza is the technical director of the selection (...) On Friday comes to Argentina," announced to the press Armando Perez, president of the AFA.

The main objective of the technician will qualify for the World ell albiceleste to Russia 2018, with a team that initially will be without its biggest star Lionel Messi, who quit the national team after losing the final of the Copa America Centenario.

"We must try to convince Messi to be in the selection, but it needs time and should not be rushed," Bauza said late last month when his name sounded like possible coach of Argentina.

Bauza will take the reins of the selection twice world champion after leading the Sao Paulo, with which he advanced to the semifinals of the last edition of the Copa Libertadores, the main club tournament in South America.

"Sao Paulo Edgardo Bauza announces that reported having received and accepted the offer of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) to assume command of the national team, so he will leave office in the Tricolor (...) 'Paton' is farewell to the club after eight months of work ", he had announced the Brazilian club said in a statement.

Argentina is third in the CONMEBOL qualifiers with 11 points, two of Uruguay and Ecuador in qualifying position for Russia 2018 when 12 games remaining to the end of qualifying.

The 'Paton' Bauza, an emblematic goalkeeper Rosario Central in his playing, achieved international recognition after winning the Copa Libertadores with Liga Deportiva Universitaria Ecuador in 2008 and with San Lorenzo de Almagro of Argentina in 2014. None of the two clubs had won the renowned title until the arrival of coach.

"If we look with optimism (the contract with Bauza) is to Russia (...) The first thing we had to solve was the technician," said Perez, who had also had contacts with coaches like Jorge Sampaoli, Ramon Diaz, Miguel Angel Russo and Mauricio Pochettino.

The economic and managerial crisis hitting the AFA, forcing the intervention of FIFA itself with the appointment of Perez at the head of an interim committee almost leaves the South American country unrepresented football team at the Olympic Games begin this week.

With the resignation of Martino, he had to resort to exinternacional Julio Olarticoechea as coach to travel to Brazil, as it was the only coach with the AFA contract.

It was not Simeone, Bielsa, Sampaoli, Pochettino nor Diaz: Bauza is chosen

Edgardo Bauza was appointed today new Argentina coach. Diego Simeone , Marcelo Bielsa , Jorge Sampaoli, Mauricio Pochettino , Eduardo Berizzo , Miguel Angel Russo , Ramon Diaz and Marcelo Gallardo are just some of the candidates the Argentine Football Association (AFA) that fell by the wayside.

Bauza, Sao Paulo coach was the first coach who met with Armando Perez, president of the regulatory committee of the AFA. However, it was not the favorite coach Perez.

Normalizador committee chairman tried to talk to Marcelo Bielsa, but the former coach of Athletic Club de Bilbao refused to meet with Perez claiming "not be indicated for technical now."

The manager also expressed on several occasions its willingness to offer the post of coach to coach Atletico Madrid , Diego Simeone, but the 'Cholo' chose to stay ahead of the Spanish team.

On July 28, Perez announced he would travel to Europe to try to talk with Jorge Sampaoli, Sevilla coach Eduardo Berizzo, Celta de Vigo.

"If we agree economically with Sevilla, Sampaoli will be the new coach next week," Perez said at the time. But attempts to convince managers to release Sevilla coach failed.

In addition, Berizzo and Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham and other candidates mentioned by Perez, publicly refused to be considered for the position.

Marcelo Gallardo, coach of River Plate , and Carlos Bianchi also refused to be taken into account.

Those who did were met with Perez Miguel Angel Russo, former coach of Boca Juniors champion of the Libertadores Cup in 2007; Ramon Diaz, exselecionador of Paraguay and won several tournaments with River Plate, and Ricardo Caruso Lombardi , who trained about a dozen, several of them the rise Argentine teams.

After the meeting with Bauza, Russo, Diaz and Lombardi, and the refusal of the other candidates, Perez bent by the 'Paton'.

Bauza won two Argentine league with Central Rosario and a Peruvian Liga with Sporting Cristal . With Liga de Quito Ecuador won two Leagues, one Recopa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores, a tournament which he won with San Lorenzo.

The new coach was appointed by Perez, chairman of the regulatory commission created on July 21 by FIFA and the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) to take charge of the AFA, which is experiencing a serious institutional crisis.

Bauza replace Gerardo 'Tata' Martino, who resigned on July 5, "due to the uncertainty in the appointment of new authorities of the Argentine Football Association and the serious drawbacks for forming the team that represents the country in the next Olympic Games ".

Julio Olarticoechea , sub'20 interim coach, took over the team that will participate in Rio de Janeiro while the AFA was looking for a new coach.

Bauza debut on September 1 in the province of Mendoza (West Argentina ), when the national team receives Uruguay in the seventh round of the South American qualifiers. Five days later he will visit Venezuela , in Merida.

The Albiceleste is third in the standings with eleven points, two of the leaders: Uruguay and Ecuador .

Chile , which ranks last direct the World ranking, has ten points, same amount as Colombia , which is fifth. Brazil and Paraguay, sixth and seventh, respectively, have nine.