The concrete thing is that, between Gareca’s trip to Argentina, on July 7, and the meeting on July 12 between Milton Gareca (son of the ‘Tiger’) and Mario Cupelli with the ‘agents’ of the FPF, José Carlos Isla and Arturo Ríos, something changed. The coach left having already accepted the sports proposal and only the contractual issue remained, of his bond.
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However, it might not materialize and on July 19, Ricardo Gareca said goodbye at a press conference in a Miraflores hotel. In just twelve days, the Bicolor went from thinking regarding a project by 2026 to not having a coach or sports director. Because everything that happened in Buenos Aires took Juan Carlos Oblitasthe manager of which Gareca arrive and want to stay, without action on the signing part of the contract.
Oblites He stopped being the sports director following the loss of the playoff once morest Australia, but he supported the sports talks so that the Tiger’ stay. And she made it. Her part was done. After that, the same post Oblites he was headless. The blind’ He preferred to put aside the negotiations for his renewal because he considered that the ways in Videna of how the case was handled – they spoke with Roberto Silva at the same time to offer him the position of sports director – were not correct. He explained it at the conference on July 22.
“I was 100% convinced that an agreement would be reached with Ricardo Gareca”, assured. But everything faded.
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the first thing he does Juan Carlos Oblitas is to recognize as his mistake to treat the renewal of Ricardo Gareca without himself having signed his new bond with the FPF. “I should have renewed before the trip to Qatar, but I got carried away because I thought that Ricardo should renew first”he assures.
Without contract, Juan Carlos Oblitas was left without a floor to be able to be a support in the second part of the negotiations with Gareca. “Don’t forget that at that time I was helping without a contract. I am not going to demand to go to say that I am going to help in something. I didn’t belong”declared in his conference.
Juan Carlos Oblitas assures that, following going out to speak to the press that July 22, he saw a small possibility that Ricardo Gareca he might reconsider his word to leave. “Before my renewal there was a possibility that I felt very close. I can’t tell you what happened at that time.”.
Without saying what happened, there was at least for a few hours, following July 19, in which a light was turned on at the end of the tunnel. But the night is long and the next morning it was all over. “I even got excited that night, but the next morning it became irreversible”bill Oblites.
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Thus ended the seven years of Ricardo Gareca on the peruvian national team. “Ricardo did not deserve to go the way he did. He has left with his head held high, without a doubt, but we failed in the forms ”recognized Oblites. Hoy, Juan Maximo Reynoso it is the one who is in Videna and a new process begins.
