Asunción, April 22 (EFE).- Former Paraguayan player and coach Francisco ‘Chiqui’ Arce resigned from the technical direction of the Libertad club, after the team’s irregular performance this season and Tuesday’s 3-0 win against Rubio Ñu at the end of the seventeenth day 17 of the Apertura Tournament.
“I think it’s a good time to give him a break, for other people to come, who can give that light to the players,” explained the 55-year-old coach, who took over as coach of Libertad on December 5.
The former Paraguay coach between 2011 and 2012 and former coach of Guaraní, Olimpia and Cerro Porteño, said that he had “made the decision” and communicated it to the team at half-time of the match played last night.
Libertad accepted Arce’s resignation and thanked him on the X network for his “professionalism” at the head of the team.
With 17 games played in the Apertura, Arce has recorded six wins, three draws and eight losses leading Libertad, which is eighth in the table with 21 points.
The results are not encouraging either in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, where Gumarelo is bottom of the H bracket with two accumulated defeats.
The strategist replaced the Argentine coach Pablo Guiñazú last December and returned to Libertad where he began his career as a coach, in the reserve of this club that he commanded during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. EFE
