SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile President Sebastian Pinera wants Marcelo Bielsa to remain as the national team coach, a job the Argentine said two months ago he would leave when Jorge Segovia was elected head of the national soccer association.
Segovia’s election has since been annulled, and Pinera said in an interview that Bielsa should reconsider and not leave “an unfinished project.”
Chile plays the United States on Saturday night in an exhibition at Carson, Calif. Bielsa has not made his plans clear and Sergio Jadue, the new president of the national governing body, has said he would try to persuade the coach to stay.
