Buenos Aires, Feb 28 (Ians) Lionel Scaloni has extended his contract as Argentina national team manager until 2026, the South American country’s football association said.
The announcement came less than three months after the 44-year-old led Argentina to glory at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when his previous agreement expired, reports Xinhua news agency.
“(Afa president) Claudio Tapia and Lionel Scaloni met to finalize the extension of the contract as national team coach until 2026,” read an Afa statement.
Scaloni, a former wing-back who was capped seven times for Argentina, took over as the national team boss in 2018 following the sacking of Jorge Sampaoli.
He oversaw a rapid improvement in the Albiceleste’s fortunes and led them to victory at the 2021 Copa America in Brazil – their first major title in 28 years.
Last June, he guided Argentina to a 3-0 rout of Italy in the Finalissima – a duel between the European and South...
The announcement came less than three months after the 44-year-old led Argentina to glory at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when his previous agreement expired, reports Xinhua news agency.
“(Afa president) Claudio Tapia and Lionel Scaloni met to finalize the extension of the contract as national team coach until 2026,” read an Afa statement.
Scaloni, a former wing-back who was capped seven times for Argentina, took over as the national team boss in 2018 following the sacking of Jorge Sampaoli.
He oversaw a rapid improvement in the Albiceleste’s fortunes and led them to victory at the 2021 Copa America in Brazil – their first major title in 28 years.
Last June, he guided Argentina to a 3-0 rout of Italy in the Finalissima – a duel between the European and South...
- 2/28/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Buenos Aires (Argentina), Dec 27 (Ians) Argentine football chief Claudio Tapia has said that he is confident Lionel Scaloni will continue as national team manager following the Albicelest’s World Cup triumph.
Scaloni’s contract expires on December 31 but the Argentine Football Association (Afa) wants to secure the 44-year-old on another four-year term after he led the South American country to its third World Cup title in Qatar earlier this month.
“I have no doubt that he will continue to be the head coach of the Argentina team,” Afa president Tapia told reporters on Monday, eight days after the Albiceleste’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in Lusail.
“We are both men of our word, we shook hands, and we said yes to each other. He is currently travelling but as soon as he comes back we are going to finalize it.”
Scaloni originally took charge on an interim basis...
Scaloni’s contract expires on December 31 but the Argentine Football Association (Afa) wants to secure the 44-year-old on another four-year term after he led the South American country to its third World Cup title in Qatar earlier this month.
“I have no doubt that he will continue to be the head coach of the Argentina team,” Afa president Tapia told reporters on Monday, eight days after the Albiceleste’s dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in Lusail.
“We are both men of our word, we shook hands, and we said yes to each other. He is currently travelling but as soon as he comes back we are going to finalize it.”
Scaloni originally took charge on an interim basis...
- 12/27/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
that might have gone as dark as something like “The Wicker Man” or “Wake in Fright.” Diego Fernandez Pujol’s second feature (following “Darwin’s Corner” eight years ago) has been a home-turf theatrical hit, though as an export item its pleasing but modest impact is more likely to attract home-format sales. Remake rights might also prove a viable commodity.
Martin Slipak, whose harried, clean-cut Everyman recalls the likes of Paul Rudd or Ben Stiller here, plays ambitious young white-collar worker Claudio Tapia. Having just “solved” a big claim case for his employer, Santa Marta Insurance Co., the appraiser is rewarded with a remote border town as his own dedicated claims territory. But the retiring agent he’ll replace smirks that this particular assignment is no promotion, and that Claudio “wouldn’t be the first stranger to get his ass kicked there.”
After a long bus ride from Montevideo, he alights in the sleepy burg,...
Martin Slipak, whose harried, clean-cut Everyman recalls the likes of Paul Rudd or Ben Stiller here, plays ambitious young white-collar worker Claudio Tapia. Having just “solved” a big claim case for his employer, Santa Marta Insurance Co., the appraiser is rewarded with a remote border town as his own dedicated claims territory. But the retiring agent he’ll replace smirks that this particular assignment is no promotion, and that Claudio “wouldn’t be the first stranger to get his ass kicked there.”
After a long bus ride from Montevideo, he alights in the sleepy burg,...
- 12/15/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
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