Pocas horas después de confirmarse que Ricardo Gareca rechazó la propuesta para continuar al mando de la selección peruana, la lista de candidatos a reemplazarlo ya tenía varios nombres. Diversos técnicos nacionales y extranjeros vienen siendo voceados como las opciones que manejaría la Federación Peruana de Fútbol (FPF) para ocupar el puesto que dejó vacante el ‘Tigre’.
One of them is Hernán Crespo, an Argentine former football player who now works as a coach. In this article, we tell you about the clubs he has coached and his most important achievements.
Who is Hernán Crespo?
Hernán Crespo was a renowned Argentine football player who played as a forward. Throughout his professional career, the former striker wore the jerseys of River Plate, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Chelsea, among others.
Crespo has a Copa Sudamericana title in his record. Photo: AFP
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After retiring, he became a coach for the youth teams of Parma in Italy. In 2015, he had his first experience as a head coach in Módena of the Serie B in said country.
In 2019, he was hired by Banfield in Argentina, where he didn't do very well. Later, he coached Defensa y Justicia, a club with which he won the 2020 Copa Sudamericana.
After this successful campaign, he was hired by Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2021. With this team, the coach had a great start and became champion of the Campeonato Paulista. However, he did not achieve good results in the Brasileirao and was dismissed in October of that year.
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Currently, Crespo is in Al-Duhail SC in the first division of Qatar, where he has played six official matches, winning five and losing only one.