How long will your contract last?

It’s now official: Diego Martínez is the new technical director of Boca Juniors. The 45-year-old coach, who this afternoon terminated his contract with Huracán, signed his new contract minutes before midnight this Friday.

“Diego Martínez agreed to his bond with Boca and is the new coach until December 2025. Welcome al single bigDiego!”, the institution presented it on social networks, with chicane for River included.

The publication on X (ex Twitter) was accompanied by the typical photo used to communicate these issues: Diego Martínez, sitting with pen in hand and facing the contract. Next to her appears Marcelo Delgadoone of the members of the Football Council that heads Juan roman riquelmebrand new president of the La Ribera club.

His first day of work with the Boca professional team will be Tuesday, January 2when the footballers begin their training for the 2024 season.

Martínez had a contract with Huracán valid until June 2024. However, Boca’s interest was enough for the coach to change his plans. And that meant that the Parque Patricios team was left without a coach on their team before the preseason.

The novel was long: It began in November with rumors of Boca’s interest in Gigolo and was delayed longer than necessary due to Xeneize’s internal conflict over the elections. Riquelme could not announce the technical director without knowing if he was actually going to be the president.

When Boca finally chose him at the polls, in Parque de los Patricios they had confirmation of the rumor: although not through the official channel, in an account that is managed as such, the technical director of Huracán was announced as the new coach of Xeneize. And there the novel took a turn.

Huracán was mentioned in the media, since its president David Garzon He explained in different interviews that, for Boca’s announcement to be effective, The coach first had to resolve his situation at the clubwhile highlighting the fact that they were waiting for him at the La Quemita property to carry out the preseason that Martínez himself had planned.

But the coach, on vacation, He did not show up for work or sign the dismissal. The conflict grew and the document letters arrived: Huracán requested financial compensation for the remaining months of the contract along with the commission of his representative, paid in advance. The number? Some 175.000.000 pesos.

“Huracán demanded the corresponding compensation: the six months of contract that Martínez had ahead of him and that he decided not to fulfill, plus the month of advance commission that his representative had received,” the club reported in its X account.

And he reported: “The former coach accepted the conditions of the Institution and signed the payment that will be made effective in the first days of January 2024. In this way, he was completely separated from the club.”

The information that Huracán provided is what Boca needed to be able to officially announce its new coach, since without that agreement Martínez could not sign his contract.