Coach Mano Menezes agreed to take command of the Peru national team. The 63-year-old Gaucho, who left Grêmio at the end of the 2025 season, agreed to a four-season commitment with the country’s football federation.
The aim is to build work that takes the team to the 2030 World Cup, which will have its venues divided between Spain, Portugal and Morocco. She placed ninth in South America in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers and did not qualify.
Mano replaces Argentine-Peruvian Óscar Ibáñez, one of Peru’s three coaches in a terrible campaign in the Qualifiers. Before them, Peruvian Juan Reynoso and Uruguayan Jorge Fossati had managed the team.
It will be Menezes’ second job as head of a national team. After good results at Corinthians, he was invited to lead Brazil in 2010, but ended up being fired in 2012 and did not reach the 2014 World Cup.
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