Chilean Federation prepares a plan to keep Bielsa in the command of the team

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• (AFP) – Chilean Football’s leaders study to put in practice the plan to keep the post of the national team’s coach, the Argentinean Marcelo Bielsa. The coach agreed to continue in the command of Chile, as the president of the Chilean Football Federation, the Spanish Jorge Segovia, will not take the post.
  According to the local media, the plan includes a “consensus list”; besides appoint a person responsible for various functions, aiming ANFP elections, which should happen before January 15.
  The names being considered are Felipe Lamarca, businessman, and the ex-president of ANFP, Ricardo Albumohor, according to the statement of the journal El Comércio.
  The plan the keep with Bielsa in the command of the Chilean national team started when the coach had a conversation with the local Olympic Committee’s president, Nevec Ilic.
  “He (Bielsa) told me he needs guaranties. He wants to feel that the person who is above him supports his work”, told Ilic.
  “Bielsa told me he will wait until January 15 to see who will assume ANFP, hear his proposes and express the necessities”, he added.
  The Honor Tribunal of the Chilean Football didn’t agree to Segovia assume the ANFP presidency.  The leader won the elections, in November, but could not take the post because one of his companies had a contract with ANFP, which violates the rules of the corporation.
  Bielsa told before the election that he would not work with Segovia, conditioning his permanency in the post, if the journalist Harold Mayne-Nicholls, which contracted him, in August 2007, remained in command.
  Nayna-Nicholls reaffirmed, this Thursday, he will not dispute again the post for presidency of the Federation.
  Bielsa started his work as a coach of the National Chilean Team in 2007, when they reached the qualification for the 2010 World Cup.

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