Almeyda to manage River Plate
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June 29, 2011, Wednesday
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FORMER Argentina midfielder Matias Almeyda will be relegated River Plate's coach in the Nacional B division next season after the resignation of JJ Lopez.
The record 33-time Argentine league champion went down for the first time in its 110-year existence on Sunday when it lost a relegation-promotion playoff against Nacional B side Belgrano 3-1 on aggregate.
"For this transitional new stage Matias Almeyda was unanimously appointed to take charge of the new River Plate team," the board said.
Almeyda, who played for Parma and Lazio in Italy and Argentina at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, was a part of Lopez's team this season but missed Sunday's decisive second leg, a 1-1 draw at the Monumental, through suspension.
The 37-year-old has no coaching experience having come out of semi-retirement playing for Lyn in Norway and then Fenix in the fourth tier of the Argentine game to return to River, his first club, in 2009.
The board also ratified Daniel Passarella, who took office 18 months ago, as the club president charged with leading River into unknown territory in the tough second tier of Argentine football. "The board of directors met today ... to unanimously seal the continuity of president Daniel Passarella for the start of River Plate's refounding," the statement said.
Passarella has been heavily criticized for the way he has handled the massive debts of Argentine's biggest club during the team's plunge into the relegation zone.
The record 33-time Argentine league champion went down for the first time in its 110-year existence on Sunday when it lost a relegation-promotion playoff against Nacional B side Belgrano 3-1 on aggregate.
"For this transitional new stage Matias Almeyda was unanimously appointed to take charge of the new River Plate team," the board said.
Almeyda, who played for Parma and Lazio in Italy and Argentina at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, was a part of Lopez's team this season but missed Sunday's decisive second leg, a 1-1 draw at the Monumental, through suspension.
The 37-year-old has no coaching experience having come out of semi-retirement playing for Lyn in Norway and then Fenix in the fourth tier of the Argentine game to return to River, his first club, in 2009.
The board also ratified Daniel Passarella, who took office 18 months ago, as the club president charged with leading River into unknown territory in the tough second tier of Argentine football. "The board of directors met today ... to unanimously seal the continuity of president Daniel Passarella for the start of River Plate's refounding," the statement said.
Passarella has been heavily criticized for the way he has handled the massive debts of Argentine's biggest club during the team's plunge into the relegation zone.
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