ARGENTINA: Boca Juniors name former assistant coach Carlos Ischia as their new coach

Record ID: 1514205

  • Title: ARGENTINA: Boca Juniors name former assistant coach Carlos Ischia as their new coach
  • Date: 28th December 2007
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (DECEMBER 26, 2007) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF BOCA JUNIORS STADIUM (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) PRESIDENT OF BOCA JUNIORS, PEDRO POMPILLO, AND NEWLY NAMED COACH, CARLOS ISCHIA, ENTERING NEWS CONFERENCE AND POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRESIDENT OF BOCA JUNIORS, PEDRO POMPILLO, SAYING: "With him we have signed a one-year contract - as is standard in this club - with the hope of extending the time. That has been the objective that we have always had when we have signed a contract with a new coach." NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) BOCA JUNIORS COACH, CARLOS ISCHIA, SAYING: "Simply look at me and see the happiness on my face, that would be an answer to that question.. enormous satisfaction to live this moment; seven years after walking these halls and the places where I have been before and had so much happiness, something very beautiful, very important. I come with great desire, with much enthusiasm, with many desires, knowing the beautiful obligation that one has when in charge of his first team." VARIOUS OF MEDIA GENERAL VIEW OF NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ISCHIA, COMMENTING ON DIEGO MARADONA'S RECENT COMMENTS THAT "ISCHIA IS NOT THE COACH FOR BOCA" SAYING: "Well, simply I have to restate, to be in this position, available to listen to opinions of all the people and well, of Diego. Despite what he says I am not going to lose the admiration and appreciation that I have always had for him as a player and as a human being. And I believe that as a fan of Boca, he wants the best for the club. Therefore, I cannot disagree with him because first and foremost in my view he has always been the player who has best understood this game, who has best brought the game to the world, not just to us, and his opinion always is valuable because he sees soccer very well and it doesn't bother me at all." VARIOUS OF POMPILLO AND ISCHIA POSING FOR THE MEDIA WITH THE TEAM SHIRT
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  • Location: Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Sport
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  • Story Text: South American champions Boca Juniors named surprise choice Carlos Ischia as their new coach on Wednesday (December 26).
    The appointment by Argentina's biggest club was a dramatic turnaround in fortunes for Ischia, who two months ago quit Rosario Central with the team at the bottom of the Apertura championship.
    Ischia was previously assistant to Carlos Bianchi at Boca between 1998 and 2001, when the club enjoyed an unprecedented run of success.
    But the 51-year-old has relatively little experience as a coach in his own right.
    He has previously coached middle-ranking clubs Velez Sarsfield, Gimnasia-La Plata and Rosario Central in Argentina and Atletico Junior in Colombia.
    Ischia replaced Miguel Angel Russo, who resigned last week following the 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in the Club World Cup final in Japan.
    Russo won the Libertadores during his year in charge but failed to win either of the two domestic tournaments in which Boca took part.
    Ischia will command a squad which includes mercurial playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme, who has returned to the club from Spain's Villarreal.
    Boca President Pedro Pompillo said Ischia will start off with a one-year contract which could be renewed. Iscia said he was delighted to be back at the club and then turned to comments made recently by Boca legend Diego Maradona, who saids Ischia was not the man to lead the club.

    "Despite what he says I am not going to lose the admiration and appreciation that I have always had for him as a player and as a human being.
    And I believe that as a fan of Boca, he wants the best for the club,"
    said Ischia.
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