The Portuguese Abel Ferreira, two-time champion with Palmeiras, is one of the five most elected football coaches for the King of America by the Uruguayan newspaper El Pais, together with Lionel Scaloni, Marcelo Bielsa, Luis Zubeldía and Fernando Diniz.
Abel Ferreira, 45 years old, has strong competition from Lionel Scaloni, also 45 years old, champion with the Argentina team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, who wants to add second place in the 38th edition of the trophy on Sunday. successive triumph.
A year ago, Lionel Scaloni, who also won a Copa América with the ‘albiceleste’, received 107 of the 218 possible votes, surpassing Abel Ferreira (35) and the Brazilian Dorival Junior (28).
Argentinian Marcelo Bielsa, 68 years old, who successfully took charge of the Uruguay national team in May, is also a strong candidate to join the battle for the title of King of America, which he has already won in 2009, when he coached Chile.
Brazilian Fernando Diniz, 49, who won the Copa Libertadores with Fluminense, and Argentinian Luís Zubeldía, 42, who won the Copa Sudamericana with Ecuador’s LDU Quito, are the other candidates.
As the newspaper El País reported today, Fernando Batista, Renato Portaluppi, Gustavo Álvarez, Néstor Lorenzo, Daniel Oldrá, Jorge Fossati, César Farías, Gabriel Milito, Marcelo Broli and Jorge Almirón also received votes, without any chance of being elected.
Source: DN
