Santa Cruz (Bolivia) -
The 70-year-old Colombian Francisco Pacho Maturana started coaching the Royal Pari in the first division of Bolivia on Tuesday, one of the revelations of professional football.
Maturana was introduced on Monday in the city of Santa Cruz, in the east, and started field work on Tuesday.
"I have learned that success is not a personal matter. It is the sum of the work of each one involved," he said during his presentation, wearing the red jersey.
"I come to try to make each of the players better and seduction is always more important than punishment. And we will travel this path through codes, and Royal Pari is an invitation to dream," he added.
Under Maturana's guidance, Colombia qualified for the 1990 and 1994 World Cups and won the 2001 Copa América as host. With Nacional, Maturana won the Copa Libertadores in 1989 and with América won the Colombian national title in 1992.
His last club in Colombia was Once Caldas until 2017 and in July of this year he worked as a technical advisor for the Venezuelan national team at the Copa América held in Brazil. He also coached Atlético Madrid and Valladolid in Spain.
Maturana replaces the Peruvian Roberto Mosquera, who led Royal Pari to the Copa Sudamericana for the first time this year since the club was promoted to the professional division in 2018.
After a weak start, Pari is in eighth place out of 14 teams. It belongs to a real estate company in Santa Cruz.