Mauricio Larriera: What does the new Alianza coach mean by playing good football?

It doesn’t come to a strange place. He knows him and remembers him fondly, because he was the first to take him in when he started out in the world of technical management. 16 years ago he was the right hand of Gerardo Pelusso in Lima Alliance. He will now return to that same bench as the one in charge of taking the intimates to the long-awaited three-time championship. “I’m coming home,” he says. Mauricio Larriera –a 52-year-old Uruguayan– was chosen as the successor to Guillermo Salas, just over a year after the end of his last job, because on August 1, 2022 he announced his goodbye to Peñarol (the team where he was national champion in 2021). . He is already in Lima.

After completing his cycle with Pelusso in 2013, Larriera began his journey as head coach going through clubs such as Racing de Montevideo, Defensor Sporting, Danubio, Montevideo Wanderers of his country, Sol de América from Paraguay, Al-Wakrah from Qatar, Godoy Cruz from Argentina, O’Higgins from Chile and the aforementioned mirasol ensemble.

In networks it already appears that it is managed with the schemes of the 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2and who is also a coach who seeks to be offensive and is committed to good football, although as he pointed out in an interview with an international channel at the beginning of the year: demonstrating that he can also adapt to the circumstances that arise in matches.

Up to three sources with whom DT spoke explain that he is a great professional and that he is obsessive 24/7 about football – although he has confessed that the departure of a loved one has made him balance things between work and personal- . Last May he left a phrase that could be very important for what Alianza Lima is today:.

With that mentality comes Mauricio Larrierawho hopes to follow the line of Pablo Bengoechea, his last compatriot in Matute – who was precisely the one who bet on him and introduced him three years ago in Peñarol – and be the guide an armed squad needs to win, win or win.