This Thursday, the ten soccer teams from South America begin the path to a new World Cup dream. The qualifiers for the United States, Mexico and Canada Cup 2026 start with expectations for the new format of the top tournament due to the expansion from 32 to 48 teams.
On this occasion, six countries of the South American Confederation will have a direct quota to the tournament, when before there were four. The chance to go to a repechage will continue to be for only one team. Therefore, there could be up to seven Conmebol teams in the World Cup.
In pursuit of that goal, there are ten brains on trial, of which seven are Argentine.
The strategists on the way to the World Cup
Coach lionel scalonithe world champion DT, leads the stop in the new challenge with three forced adjustments in his roster for Argentina to first face Ecuador at home (Thursday, 7 pm) and then Bolivia, away (Tuesday, 3 pm).
Faced with the injuries to Marcos Acuña and Paulo Dybala, world champions in Qatar, and Giovani Lo Celso, key in the process in recent times, Scaloni had to shuffle because, he said, “the World Cup is over.”
In the line of Argentines continues Marcelo Bielsathe new coach of Uruguay, who yesterday, at the close of this edition, had not yet announced his list of summoned for the debut in the tie against Chile, on Friday, at 6 pm Leading Bielsa, in the debut , will be Eduardo “Toto” Berizzothe man who managed to overcome prostate cancer in recent years and who took on the challenge of leading Chile, which has been unable to qualify for two World Cups in a row.
(This was the fatal accident in which a young pilot died in the middle of the Tocancipá Autodrome).
On that same Argentine staircase, you reach the step of Nestor Lawrencethe Colombian coach who has not known defeat in the friendlies he has directed and who hopes to turn the page on the pain that the elimination of the road to Qatar represented for the team.
And in a matter of challenges, the greatest ambition is also for the Argentine Fernando Batistawho hopes to take advantage of the new Cup format to lead Venezuela to its first World Cup. Gustavo Costas He hopes to return to Bolivia to a Cup, after the one in 1994.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto, survivor of the previous tie in Paraguay, is the seventh of the Argentine helmsmen. Confident in the process, he hopes to make the leap to the World Cup.
The three that escape the trend are the Brazilian Fernando DinizDT in charge of Brazil while the Italian Carlo Ancelotti arrives in June next year at the Verdeamarela, the Peruvian Juan Reynosowho as a player could never go with the Incas to a World Cup, and the Spanish Felix Sanchez Baswho after forging the football foundations in Qatar and falling in the first round of the last World Cup, now leads Ecuador.
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