Surprise: Fernando Redondo could make his debut as technical director in Argentine football

Fernando Redondo could start his career as a technical director in Argentine football. The 52-year-old former central midfielder appears as a great candidate to direct Talleres de Córdoba, who this weekend was left without a coach after the resignation of Ángel Guillermo Hoyos after the defeat to San Lorenzo.

This is a desire of the leadership led by Andrés Fassi, knowing the intention of former Real Madrid to start his journey in the alternate bench. Pablo Guiñazú, idol of the club (and with an experience as a DT at Atlético Tucumán), Gabriel Heinze and Gustavo Coleoni are other names in the folder of the conduct of the T.

In recent months, the Spanish League ambassador had outlined his intention to re-immerse himself in the world of football from another role. “I think the only way I could get back to football is as a coach. It's like that. If I do, that I really feel like it, it would be like this. I think that's where I could contribute and I would really feel useful. It would be to relive that adrenaline, which is what I have been missing since I stopped playing, because I still enjoy the rest as a spectator,” he told Infobae in an interview conducted in 2020.

On the same note, he had left some tips from his profile as a DT. For example, freedoms for the skilled. “It's hard for us to find gambettors. There is no doubt that a gambeta solves an entire engineering to be able to overcome a rival pressure line. Having that condition is fantastic. It is mainly in the early ages that it must be stimulated. Today we increasingly see in small divisions that players are correct, who understand what it is like not to lock up on one side, to play one or two touches. Barbarian. But at times when it is necessary to dare gambeta is a fantastic resource that solves that, a lot of things. It puts you in a situation of numerical superiority, which is what causes you to generate imbalance,” he said then.

“Football, the simpler, the better. But whoever you see has the capacity, who has that quality, which is not common to all; I think that is where it needs to be intensified. Also that the one who has that possibility is recognized within the team. And let him know how to use it where he has to use it. Perhaps there is the mistake: to understand that sometimes those who gambete play badly because, as we say in Argentina, he is a morphon. And it goes on the other side. For a much broader reading considering that it is an ace to have a gambettor on a team. So, I think that since childhood, when you see those possibilities, you have to intensify them. Because it is true that football continues to evolve and today if we start to make an analysis from the goalkeeper and the defenders, from one time to this part, have evolved a lot. Just seeing the archers play with their feet and the central ones how they play, that tells you that there is a very clear evolution in football. But I just think he lost sight of that a little bit. The correctness and structure as to what it is to play well, has made this disappear a bit. The gambetador, the one who has dribble, is the one who somehow gets that exclamation out of you and the one who excites you, what we all want to see, we want to see something different. And, in addition, it doesn't just stay aesthetically, it's productive for well-used equipment,” he expanded the concept.

Redondo emerged in Argentinos Juniors, but his print of a fine steering wheel, an all-camper, immediately caught the attention of the greats of Europe. From Tenerife he jumped to Real Madrid, where he won six titles, including two Champions League. At Milan he would repeat the crown of the Old Continent. With the National Team he played the World Cup in United States 94 and had no major shooting due to differences first with Carlos Bilardo and then with Daniel Passarella.

Today, one of his sons, Federico Redondo, is threatening to continue his legacy: he signed his first contract as a professional in Argentinos and was summoned to the U20 National Team.

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