Former footballer Fernando Gago (38 years old, Buenos Aires) was presented this Monday as the new coach of Boca Juniors after leading his first training session. This will be his first stage as a coach at the Argentine club, although he has already played for Boca twice as a professional footballer (between 2004 and 2006; and later between 2013 and 2019, after his time at Real Madrid CF and Valencia CF). Gago returns to the team where he was born as a footballer after his controversial departure from Chivas de Guadalajara for having terminated his contract.
Gago guaranteed his commitment to the club during his first press conference with the president of Boca Juniors, Juan Román Riquelme. “I am going to try to give my best to form a team that competes in all the competitions in which it plays. I want a leading team, that knows where it wants to play, a lot of offensive weight. “Having that intensity of always wanting to have the ball,” he said.
Gago’s decision to stop coaching Chivas has generated a stir in Mexico. While the Argentine assures that he acted correctly, the club accuses him of having broken his contract – which was valid until December – and breaking the termination clause of two million dollars.
Gago began his career as a footballer at Boca Juniors in 2005. He lasted a year there and in 2006 he headed to Madrid to join Real Madrid between 2006 and 2011, where he won two Leagues, a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup. The white club loaned him to Roma for a season in 2011 and the following year he landed at Valencia CF. In 2013, Gago decided to return to Argentina, although before returning to Boca he spent half a year on loan at Vélez Sarsfield.
Finally, in mid-2013 the Argentine returned to Boca Juniors, a team in which he would be again until 2019. In 2020, again in the ranks of Vélez, Gago said goodbye to the playing fields after having suffered several serious injuries that kept him out. long periods of time.
Already as a coach, he debuted in 2021 at Aldosivi in Argentina, went through the Argentine Racing Club and then signed for Chivas de Guadalajara. To finally bet again this Monday on Boca Juniors, the club “that saw him grow”, as he himself said this Monday in his presentation.
