Through a press release, on Monday afternoon, the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) announced that Reinaldo Rueda left the technical direction of the Colombian national team. This decision was made after the 'tricolor' did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The departure of Reinaldo Rueda sparked social networks, as different sectors of the country have commented on the work of the vallecaucano coach and the performance of coffee growers in the qualifying phase for the World Cup. In fact, Brigitte Baptiste, rector of EAN University, sparked a great debate on social media after giving her opinion on who should reach the leadership of the national squad.
“It's time to think about a woman to lead the men's soccer team in Colombia,” Baptiste wrote through his official Twitter account. This triune caused all kinds of comments, as several netizens supported his proposal, but others questioned it because there is not yet a group of women who meet the demands of a technical management, which must meet a number of requirements and good results.
In national football there are only two coaches who are leading professional teams, Junior and Cortuluá, clubs that are currently playing in the BetPlay Women's League. For her part, Yinaris García reached the Junior at the end of last year; and Diana Silva has been training the Valle team since last year.
Yinaris returned to her native Barranquilla, where she grew up watching her greatest reference in football, Carlos El Pibe Valderrama, after nearly five years in Germany, where she traveled to prepare and become a football coach. He will arrive after having directed the women's TV Brechten of the intermediate league and the under-15 men's team of that institution.
In the capital of the Atlantic, he will also seek to implement what he learned in Valencia, Spain and FC Barcelona during his stay in the old continent, as well as the knowledge acquired at SENA and at the Superior Polytechnic of Medellín, where he studied physical training in football and sports management.
Diana Silva did not have the opportunity to belong to a school that would have trained her to become a professional footballer, despite this, now, at the age of 39, she is directly linked to professional football, because thanks to the Pro License granted by the Colombian Football Federation she was able to obtain her coaching title, thus becoming the first woman in the country to manage a professional league team.
According to information from the newspaper El País de Cali, in 2008 Silva was part of the Corporation for Popular Recreation, CRP, which she joined as coordinator of training schools, in which she was responsible for 130 children. This experience helped him to manage, a few years later, a team. And since 2021 he began working with Cortuluá, a team in which he leads footballers between the ages of 18 and 32 who have spent in different clubs in the country.
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