The 17th star seems like a very distant memory for National Athletic, taking into account his current sporting moment. After losing the classic against Independent Medellin (4-3, on Sunday), the Greens are outside the top eight of the 2022-II League.
The fall against the DIM left on the tightrope Hernan Dario Herrera as coach of Atlético Nacional. With 13 points out of a possible 30, the team is in ninth place in the standings.
Beyond the results, the poor level of the team is what most worries the directors in the face of the continental challenge next year in the Copa Libertadores.
The foreigner who sounds for Nacional
Although there are Colombian and foreign candidates to succeed Herrera, the board of directors and the new president Mauricio Navarro hope to specify in the coming days the name of that strategist who will have the objective of fighting for the League and putting together a competitive team for the continental competition, where they will return to a group stage directly, something that had not happened since 2018.
The intention of the directors would be to bring a foreign technician and one of the names that sounds is that of the Spanish Miguel Angel Ramirez, champion of the 2020 South American Cup with Independiente del Valle, from Ecuador.
But Nacional does not rule out the arrival of a Colombian coach and two of them seem to take advantage, both with successful steps for the club: Reinaldo Rueda, champion of the Libertadores 2016, and Santiago Escobar, who won local titles in his two spells with the club.
However, the difficulty of time and the limited budget are two difficulties that the greens have to bring in a cartel strategist.
After the departure in mid-2021 of the Brazilian Alexandre Guimaraes, Nacional opted for technicians from its academy such as Alejandro Restrepo and Hernán Darío Herrera, who won the Cup and the League respectively, but the idea of the game does not seduce and in a team like Nacional, form also matters.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellin
On Twitter: @juanchoserran8
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