Ricardo Gareca It is one of the main options to control that Chilean team. After the resignation of Eduardo Berizzo at the last date of the 2026 qualification, the former coach of the Peruvian team began to push hard for the place on the red bench. Even in the southern country, some media reported that the Argentine coach's entourage had a meeting with the ANFP (Chilean Football Association) last Friday, December 22, and an economic agreement was reached.
However, these rumors were denied by the Chilean journalist Marco Escobar Alvear, who spoke for the DSports program “Más que futbol” and assured that the ANFP had denied an alleged conversation with the “Tigre” or his entourage.
What is known about the ANFP's alleged meeting with Ricardo Gareca?
The communicator pointed out that both the president of the ANFP, Pablo Millad, and the secretary Jorge Yungue did not even meet virtually with the Argentine coach, since they are in the Middle East and there is a commission in charge of these matters.
“As far as the issue of negotiations is concerned, there is a rejection from the ANFP. They have not spoken to Ricardo Gareca or those around the former Peruvian coach. What there has not been is a call or meeting between Pablo Millad and Jorge Yungue, because they are there.” “This conversation has not even remotely taken place because there is a commission that deals with the Gareca issue” , he explained on the aforementioned sports show.
The communicator assured that in order to reach an economic agreement it would first have to go through a commission responsible for defining the coach, made up of the selection manager Rodrigo Robles and the head of the scouting department Marko Biskupovic.
“There is the national team manager, Rodrigo Robles, and the head of scouting, Marko Biskupovic. They are the first to turn to the coaches and then the economic problem is recognized by part of the leadership, like Pablo Millad and some figures from the “Federation,” he condemned.