Option to replace Queiroz in the Colombian national team

In agreement with information revealed by the journalist Carlos Antonio Vélez, in a week there will be a meeting of the members of the executive committee of the Football Association to discuss the issue of the new coach.

However, the commentator anticipated it most leaders are inclined to hire a “Colombian” helmsman, although they would not entirely rule out that someone from outside would return.

The truth is that the list of options may change with the passing of the days because there is no desire to name the replacement for the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, Well, the next matches of the Selection of Colombia are in the last week of March 2021, against Brazil and Paraguay in compliance with dates 5 and 6 of South American qualifiers.

The Colombians opted to replace Queiroz:

• Reinaldo Rueda: World Cup with Honduras and Ecuador.
  He has been confirmed technical director of the Chilean national team, but he is the favorite of the managers, as revealed by the journalist Javier Hernández Bonnet on Radio Blu. His arrival, however, seems distant if we consider that the Colombian Federation would not have how to pay the value of his clause exit from the southern team.
• Jorge Luis Pinto: World Cup with Costa Rica.
  He has just left the technical direction of the UAE team, in which he lasted 5 months, and is available. He stressed that he had no understanding to apply his discipline-based working method. In 2007 he directed the Colombian national team in the Copa América in Venezuela and clashed with several players.
• Hernán Darío ‘Bolillo’ Gómez: World Cup with Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
  He left the Ecuadorian team after failing to move on to the second stage of the Copa América in Brazil 2019, after which he no longer directed. However, journalists like Carlos Antonio Vélez and Javier Hernández Bonnet have pointed out that managers don’t have it in their front line of favoritism.
• Juan Carlos Osorio: World Cup with Mexico.
  He has stressed on several occasions that one of his dreams as a coach is to lead the Colombian national team. He is currently without a team as he recently left Atlético Nacional after some poor results. He is now linked as a possible head of the new Pereira sports project.
• Luis Fernando Suárez: World Cup with Ecuador and Honduras.
  He is currently without a team and is dedicated to passing on his football knowledge as a guest analyst in various journalistic spaces. His last club was Junior, a cast from which he left in mid-2019, at which point he joined the media. He has played for many teams, but without going further.

Optional foreigners to replace Queiroz:

• José Pékerman (Argentine): World Cup with Colombia.
  He qualified with the ‘coffee’ team at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, then left his position and never returned to directing. However, his possible return would be conditional on him not being accompanied by Pascual Lezcano, his representative, which would be a difficult issue to negotiate, according to journalist Javier Hernández Bonnet.
• Miguel Ángel Russo (Argentine): no experience in national teams.
  He started playing after Enrique Camacho, president of Millonarios, told TyC Sports channel that his name is widely accepted in Colombia. In this regard, the Argentine journalist Juan José Buscalia explained to Radio Blu that Russo could accept a possible offer after the end of his participation with Boca Juniors in this Copa Libertadores.