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After confirming this Monday the arrival of Alexandre Guimarães as Atlético Nacional coach to take the reins of the team in 2021, the strategist will have several challenges to return a competitive team, after adding eight eliminations in the last three years.
Enhance the players on the squad: The purslane has players on loan from other teams and with a current contract, who must examine them and determine if it works for their project. In addition to the players who are still on the roster, you must have a criterion to select and complement a work group that is successful.
Give the youth team a chance: The coach is called to continue with the process of the youth who were brought closer to the professional team, that is why he called Alejandro Restrepo as part of his coaching staff to have that relationship with the homegrown players.
Identify weaknesses and strengths: Beyond the positions required for the formation of the team, Guimarães in the coming weeks will work to improve aspects such as defensive work, creation and definition, weak points in Nacional 2020.
Earning continuity: Since Reinaldo Rueda, the successor technicians did not last two consecutive tournaments. The Alagoas-born will be the fourth foreign coach to occupy the green bench since 2017.
Have an attractive and winning game idea: Recover the identity of Nacional game, return to the winning path and be a team that pleases the fans. All combined so that Antioqueños return to the forefront of Colombian soccer.
To be the first Brazilian champion with Nacional: Guimarães is the third Brazilian coach to coach Nacional after Walter Goulart da Silveira ‘Santo Cristo’, who coached between May 5, 1968 and October 23, 1969, and Paulo Autuori, coached from November 11, 2018 to May 23, 2019. Alexandre wants to break that streak, where the ‘Verdeamarelos’ strategists pass with more pain than glory for the nationalist bench.
Improve the numbers achieved with América de Cali: With the Scarlets, he was between June 2019 and March 2020, where he directed 40 official matches, winning 19, drawing 10 and losing 11, with 54 goals for and 45 against, for a performance of 55.8%. He won the League II-2019 and the friendly homer of Bogotá 2020. His last match as coach of America was on March 10 in the 1-2 away victory against Universidad Católica de Chile.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On twitter: @ juanchoserran8
