Gustavo Costas began his third cycle as Racing Club coach this Tuesday, with the incorporations already confirmed present in the first practice in Avellaneda, but an absence of weight not only because of the sporting aspect, but because of what it may mean at the start of his management. Is about Emiliano Vecchiothe creative midfielder who is the president’s son-in-law Victor White.
At the Tita Mattiussi property, which the same technician visited earlier to interact with the entity’s workers who work there, the 2024 period began for an ‘Academy’ whose objectives are to try to appear as high as possible in the triple competition you will face this semester: League Cup, Argentine Cup and South American Cup.
The emblematic idol of the institution, 60 years old, took the helm to replace the duo composed of Sebastián Grazzini-Ezequiel Videla, who took charge of the Albiceleste team when Fernando Gago stepped aside.
Front Maximiliano Salas (Palestinian, from Chile) and Adrian Martinez (Institute of Córdoba) were present and were at the inaugural practice.
The also attacker Santiago Solari (Defense and Justice), whose incorporation is already guaranteed, will join the payroll once he completes the required medical examinations.
On the other hand, the new news was reported after noon, when the attacker Nicolas Renierowho had a brief loan spell at Tigre last semester, took note that he will not be taken into account by the coach and will have to report to train with the Reserve, starting on Monday the 8th.
In identical tone, the archer Gastón ‘Chila’ Gómez (who returned after a loan at Vélez Sarsfield) and the midfielder Fabricio Dominguez (who ended their relationship with Argentinos Juniors) did not practice either and plan to negotiate their respective departures.
The hitch situation Nicolas Oroz It is similar, because the player requested a few additional days of leave, because he intends to negotiate his departure.
They also did not attend John Ignatius Nardoni y Baltasar Rodríguezwho are affected by the Argentine Under ’23 team led by Javier Mascherano and preparing for the Venezuela Pre-Olympic Championship (which begins on Saturday the 20th) and will be a qualifier for Paris 2024.
He was there, although probably in one of his last rehearsals, the forward Maximiliano Romerowho will be loaned to Argentinos Juniors, for one year and without a purchase option.
The Colombian striker Roger MartinezFor his part, he asked for a few more days of rest and will return to Argentina during the week, after having enjoyed a few days less leave last December due to his participation in a friendly that his country’s team won against him. 3-2 to Mexico, in the United States. His compatriot was also missing Johan Carbonero and the steering wheel Jonathan Gomez.
But what was surprising was the lack of the steering wheel Emiliano Vecchio“absent without notice” according to racing sources confided to the Télam agency.
“Racing is a big club: it’s not enough to just enter the cups, you have to win them. The priority is not the South American, it’s everything. The last international title was with me as a player, imagine all the years that passed. It’s an obligation to win”Costas said at a press conference on the day of his presentation.
The “academic” coach achieved the first edition of the 1988 South American Super Cup as a Racing player, after beating Cruzeiro of Brazil in the final (2 to 1 in the first leg and 1 to 1 in the rematch) with the remembered team led by Alfio Basile and with figures of the stature of Ubaldo Fillol, Rubén Paz and Miguel Colombatti, among others.
The only international title that Costas won as a coach was the 2016 Suruga Bank with Independiente Santa Fe, Colombia, after beating Kashima Antlers, from Japan, 1-0.
Regarding the negotiations to continue strengthening the squad, the leadership, headed by president Victor Blanco, aims to try to close as soon as possible the arrivals of midfielder Bruno Zuculini, goalkeeper Facundo Cambeses and defender Emanuel Mammana.
Zuculini, who recently moved to River, also has an offer from Nacional de Montevideo, but his intention is to return to Racing, a team of which he is a fan and where he debuted in the 2010 season.
Cambeses, currently in Banfield, is also sought by Vélez, an institution that made a more tempting offer.
Mammana, with a past at River, was offered a two-year contract and is one of the priorities to join the defensive column.