Carlos Bustos faces his first experience in Bolivian soccer. Photo: composition LR/Twitter/Conmebol
A machine! Carlos Bustoschampion coach with Alianza Lima in 2021, was announced as the new coach of Blooming Bolivia and did not have the expected start: they lost their first two games and conceded 7 goals. In the midst of this not very encouraging start, the Argentine strategist was present in the Copa Sudamericana and recorded a historic win by winning by 6-0 against Atlético Palmaflor in the previous phase.
The annotations of José Luis Sinisterra (treble), Gastón Rodríguez (double) and Leonardo Beteli made it possible for the coach to add his first victory with the sky-blue squad. Furthermore, this ensured their presence in the group stage of the continental tournament.
As if that weren’t enough, this bulky scoreboard also puts your team in the top 10 of the most goals scored in the history of the competition.
Carlos Bustos was reinforced with former players from Alianza Lima and Universitario
Carlos Bustos knows Peruvian soccer very well and his time at Universidad San Martín, Melgar and Alianza Lima allowed him to work with several soccer players. In this sense, one of his first movements on the Blooming bench was to add athletes with a past in League 1: he incorporated the midfielder Archimedes Figueroa (former member of Universitario de Deportes between 2017 and 2019) and the central Jonathan Lacerda (national champion with Alianza Lima in 2021).
Maximum wins in the history of the Copa Sudamericana
- Oil East 1-10 Fluminense (2022)
- Defensor Sporting 9-0 Sport Huancayo (2010)
- Guild 8-0 Aragua FC (2021)
- LDU Quito 7-0 River Plate of Uruguay (2009)
- Sol de América 7-1 Estudiantes de Caracas (2017)
- Blooming 6-0 Atlético Palmaflor (2023)
- Ceará 6-0 General Caballero (2022)
- Catholic University of Quito 6-0 Melgar (2019)
- Cerro Porteno 6-0 Real Potosi (2016)
- Newell’s Old Boys 6-0 San José (2010)
- San Lorenzo 6-0 Deportivo Italchacao (2003).
Why didn’t Carlos Bustos continue in Alianza Lima?
Despite having given the blue and white club the 2021 League 1 title, its poor campaign in the 2022 Copa Libertadores, as well as the irregular moment of the team in the Clausura Tournament that year, detracted from the credit it had earned, from so that the board opted to remove him from office.