Edgardo BAUZA has been fired as Argentina National Team coach.

It has now been made official by AFA president TAPIA that Edgardo BAUZA is no longer the coach of the Argentina National Team. The announcement comes just minutes ago with AFA president Chiqui TAPIA coming out stating that BAUZA is no longer the coach before adding the following:

Chiqui TAPIA:

“We have reached a verbal agreement.”

Gustavo LESCOVICH, Edgardo BAUZA’s agent has come out and said the following:

Edgardo BAUZA’s agent:

“We have reached an agreement with Chiqui TAPIA and tomorrow there will be one last press conference. The way it was handled and the criticisms were too strong. We have to get over the drama and move on. BAUZA will probably work again in a few months.”

Chiqui TAPIA and Marcelo TINELLI will be travelling to Europe on Thursday where they will meet Atletico Madrid coach Diego SIMEONE. They would also meet Jorge SAMPAOLI. Regarding Jorge SAMPAOLI, should he become the new Argentina coach, he would stay on as Sevilla coach until May.

As we reported earlier today, news broke out that Edgardo BAUZA would be getting fired today. There are also reports that during their stay in Europe, TAPIA and TINELLI will also speak with the two Argentina captains, Lionel MESSI and Javier MASCHERANO.

Argentina National Team coach Edgardo BAUZA is expected to be fired today.

According to reports in Argentina, BAUZA will meet with AFA president TAPIA tonight at 7pm at Ezeiza. Per the reports, the decision to fire him has already been taken and BAUZA will be fired tonight.

Edgardo BAUZA:

This story of will the AFA or won’t the AFA fire BAUZA has been going on since last month with the two parties speaking to each other last week when BAUZA got the support of TAPIA. However, since that time, there was a leaked Whatsapp conversation involving the AFA president where he insults and humiliates BAUZA.

The idea seems to be that while the AFA no longer want BAUZA as coach of the Argentina National Team, they can’t afford to fire him. They currently owe former Argentina and current Atlanta United coach Gerardo “Tata” MARTINO’s staff millions and firing BAUZA would add to their debt. Furthermore, if the rumors are true and they would get Jorge SAMPAOLI from Sevilla, they would have to pay his buyout clause and pay his salary as coach of the Argentina National Team. Another issue appears to be that they don’t want to fire BAUZA before being able to get SAMPAOLI as his replacement.

We reported last week that SAMPAOLI reportedly had demands about coaching the National Team. One of them being that he would want to manage Argentina until the 2022 World Cup.