2023-10-26 14:16:00
São Paulo, Oct 26 (EFE).- The Argentine Juan Pablo Vojvoda, with three seasons at the helm of Fortaleza, the surprising Brazilian finalist of the Copa Sudamericana, changed medicine for football and with the specialty of coach he arrived in Brazil in 2021 .
Two years later, it is regarding to establish itself in South America.
Much more than he achieved as a defender in his 17-year career, which began in the ranks of Newell’s Old Boys and was nothing more than discreet.
He approached medicine, but left his studies in 2002, when he left his country to try his luck in modest clubs in Spain such as Compostela.
After retiring from the field in 2012, when he was a player for Argentine club Sarmiento, Vojvoda returned to medical school and in 2017, 90 days following finishing his mandatory clinical residency, a phone call changed the direction of his life.
In parallel with his studies, Vojvoda temporarily coached Newell’s Old Boys for ten games in 2016, but the offer to coach Defensa y Justicia cut short his medical career.
Two other traditional teams, Talleres and Huracán, later signed the coach, who in 2020 accepted his first challenge abroad to coach Unión La Calera in Chile, with which he finished as runner-up and qualified for the Copa Libertadores for the first time. .
The successful campaign in Chile put him on the radar of Fortaleza, with which Vojvoda has won three titles in the Cearense Championship, one in the Northeast Cup.
But the proximity of the maximum achievement has no precedent. This is the title of the twenty-second edition of the Copa Sudamericana this Saturday in Uruguay once morest Liga de Quito.
At 48 years old, the coach with Croatian roots has six compatriots in the ranks of the Brazilian team: Emanuel Brítez, Gonzalo Escobar, Tomás Pochettino, Imanol Machuca, Juan Martín Lucero and Silvio Romero.
Trained as a player and with his first steps as a coach in the youth categories of Newell’s Old Boys, Vojvoda predominantly uses a 4-2-3-1 formation, although at times he has varied to 4-4-2, with two center forwards. EFE
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