Copa America coaches feel the heat With the gruelling CONMEBOL World Cup qualification marathon done and dusted and those lucky enough to have earned a spot at the Moncler Men and Women vamp wing Glossy black white Casual shoes big show having sufficiently settled back down into something approaching normality, miami heat jerseys more than half the coaches strutting the touchline in the 43rd Copa America weren doing so for their country last World Cup fixture. Some have a great deal to live up to; others, not so much. A couple are demanded not only to win, but to win the right way, while Moncler Loire down Women coat with zip blue others are challenged only to deliver a steady improvement on what went before. One of them, Brazil Mano Menezes, has been asked to do pretty much all of the above. Succeeding Dunga, his task was to win, and the right way to adjust Brazil image on the field, so that it could once again thrive off it; to develop the young players, and do away with the old; and lastly, but by no means least, moncler clothing to keep one eye firmly fixed on the forthcoming World Cup 2014 that will be played out on home soil and so absolutely must be won. Another asked to brush the recent past aside and moncler men 2014 start anew is Argentina coach Sergio Batista. Maradona reign was inevitably chaotic and unpredictable, too much so for Julio Grondona and AFA (Argentine Football Association) who made sure he walked following La Albiceleste s World Cup elimination moncler coat reviews at the hands of an infinitely more effective Germany. Batista answer has been to admire and imitate taking the best team on the planet, Barcelona, and attempting to reproduce their style in order to get the most out of the best player on the planet, Lionel Messi. this moment, Messi is the best footballer in the world and we have to take advantage of that, Batista told a press conference last month. Having reinvented his team style in order to do so, will be praying the blanket is long enough to warm his defense too. Chile Claudio Borghi arguably has the Moncler Mens jackets goose down Collar Zip Red biggest shoes to fill. "I never liked comparisons and [it] would be disrespectful to compare myself with him, he has more prestige as a coach than me, Borghi told the press this week when asked once again about his predecessor Marcelo Bielsa, adding, is a team that is well formed. Bielsa did a great job. Indeed he did, leading them through World Cup qualification by winning 10 of 18 matches (a record bettered by nobody). But more impressive than that was the way in which Bielsa achieved what he did, with an intense, high tempo brand of attacking football that won the hearts of soccer fans worldwide. Borghi himself is a coach attacking in nature and he knows Chilean football well having spent time in the country as both a player and a coach. Ecuador Reinaldo Rueda is one of the few that did coach in last year World Cup, but with a different nation the Colombian led Honduras to South Africa in 2010. It hasn been all smooth sailing for Rueda in the run up to the Copa, however, with moncler outlet sale uk a contingent of Ecuadorians calling for his dismissal last month. With no wins in their last seven though they been beaten just once and a group that includes Paraguay, an ever improving Venezuela and reigning champs Brazil, Rueda will do well to steer his team though the group stage. Peru Sergio Markarian and Bolivia Gustavo Quinteros are also new to their roles and both will be aiming for an improvement on a World Cup qualifying campaign that saw them finish bottom and second bottom respectively. Quinteros faces possibly the biggest challenge of any coach this month, but he got off to a great start with a 1 1 draw against hosts Argentina in the curtain raiser. In Markarian, Peru has a wily old coach who guided Paraguay to the 2002 World Cup, but he has major injury concerns. While Juan Vargas did make the 23 and hopes to be passed fit for the second group game, Claudio Pizarro and Jefferson Farfan are both major losses. The experienced Markarian, however, remains positive. will be okay, don t worry, he said. do my best so Peru has a good performance. Peruvians are now left hoping the 66 year old best proves enough. Costa Rica Ricardo La Volpe will look only to learn more of his team before the CONCACAF World cheap moncler jackets outlet Cup Qualifiers. Colombia, meanwhile, has a base on which to build having missed out on the chance of a World Cup qualifying playoff by just a point. The loss of playmaker Gio Moreno to long term injury was a huge blow for its coach Hernan Dario Gomez who will now hope that Radamel Falcao, Teo Gutierrez and Hugo Rodallega can transfer their goalscoring form to the international scene

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Copa moncler tracksuits America failure costs Batista Argentina job BUENOS AIRES moncler shoes uk (Reuters) Argentina s failure to win the Copa America as hosts and end an 18 year wait for a major title cost coach Sergio Batista his job on Monday. The Argentine Football Association (AFA), jerseys facing an identity crisis in the Moncler Men down jackets zip with hood black national game, announced Batista had stepped down after his team Moncler Men down Jackets hat yellow were knocked out of the tournament in the quarter finals nine days ago. "Batista wasn t sacked," Cherquis Bialo said. "(Batista) put his future as the head of the national team up for consideration by the (AFA) executive committee." Cherquis Bialo also said Argentina s Aug. 10 friendly against Romania moncler women coat sale in Bucharest on Aug. 10 had been cancelled. "The coaching staff of Argentina teams at all levels are under evaluation by the national teams commission," he added. "There are no deadlines, there s no rush, no urgency (to name a new coach) so there will be a process of consideration and study." National teams director Moncler Men down jackets Reynold cream-colored Carlos Bilardo, who as coach steered Argentina to their second World Cup triumph in Mexico in 1986, has also come under scrutiny and risks losing his job. There had been mounting media pressure for the AFA to make a decision to rescue Argentina from years of underachievement with Batista in the eye of the storm after AFA board members questioned his capacity for the job. Batista, 48, had been in charge for a year, initially in an interim capacity after predecessor Diego Maradona was refused a new contract following Argentina s quarter final elimination at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa. His contract was to take him to the end of the South American qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil with Batista vowing to build a team around Lionel Messi, the world s best player, to win the title. COPA FAILURE Batista, nicknamed Checho, did not promise to deliver the Copa America but said it was Argentina s obligation as hosts to win the trophy and he was confident they would, having lost to Brazil in the previous two finals. However, Argentina struggled against tough South American opponents also preparing for the World Cup qualifiers by building their teams from the back in contract to Batista s stated aim to play in the mould of European champions Barcelona, Messi s club. His Argentina side had good results in friendlies with wins against world champions Spain, arch rivals Brazil Moncler Womens jackets down Glossy Zip Rose and Portugal but his competitive debut almost ended in a shock defeat by Bolivia who held them 1 1 in their Copa America opener. Batista, holding midfielder in the 1986 World Cup winning team, came into the senior job via the Olympic team he steered to Argentina s second successive soccer gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. With South America s World Cup qualifiers kicking off in October, the Moncler down jackets Women red single-breasted slim AFA decided an overhaul critics said should have been made a year ago had to be done at once. Argentina have gone 18 years without a major title since their last Copa America victory in 1993 and the youth programme led by former coach Nestor Pekerman that reaped five world under 20 titles between 1995 and 2007 was dismantled. Local media have made Alejandro Sabella, assistant to former Argentina boss Daniel Passarella at the 1998 World Cup and coach of the Estudiantes side that won the South American Libertadores Cup in 2009, favourite to take over. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests

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