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At any time, the Colombian Football Federation will officially hire Reinaldo Rueda as the new coach of the senior team. The president of the entity, Ramón Jesurún, finalizes the details of the agreement with the strategist, who would have with him his trusted men for many years, the physical coach Carlos Eduardo Velasco and the assistants Alexis Mendoza and Bernardo Redín.
Leaders and new coaching staff fully agree on short-, medium- and long-term goals. The issue of wages is getting closer and closer, as well as the duration of the contract, which would eventually be for two cycles of the World Cup, as requested by Rueda.
In terms of sports, the first challenge will be to regain confidence and unity in the team, for which the coach will travel to Europe in mid-January and meet with the main references of the team in Italy, England and Turkey.
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He will then have to draw the next four matches of the Qatar 2022 qualifier. On March 25 against Brazil in Barranquilla, and on March 30 against Paraguay in Asunción. And in June, a week before the start of the Copa América, the visit to Lima in Peru and the duel against Argentina, at the Metropolitano Stadium.
Without a break, the team will host the continental tournament, with the responsibility of reaching at least the semifinals.
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In the second half, he will face three double elimination dates in September, October and November, in which World Cup tickets will be practically defined, although there will be four more games between January and March next year.
In a dialogue with the newspaper El Colombiano, Rueda stressed on Friday, January 1, that there is nothing official. “Many friends called me to congratulate me, but I must say that it is not true that I am the coach of the national team. The Colombian Federation has not yet confirmed anything and I do not know why some journalists are borrowing to say that I am already a coach.