River Plate coach Astrada sacked after goalless run (Reuters)

Monday, April 12, 2010

By Rex Gowar

BUENOS AIRES, April twelve (Reuters) - Crisis bar River Platesacked manager Leonardo Astrada upon Monday in a bid to stop a rotthat could see them fighting to equivocate relegation subsequent season.

Astrada’s team have taken a single point as well as scored no goals intheir last 5 matches in a Clausura championship afterSunday’s 0-0 draw divided to bottom team Atletico Tucuman. They arenear a bottom with thirteen points from fourteen matches.

“Yes, I’ve been kicked out,” Astrada, who had taken chargelast October, told reporters as he left a club’s Monumentalground upon Monday.

River, a team with many joining titles in Argentina sincethe appearance of a veteran diversion in 1931, have been in a dangerousposition in a relegation averages taken over three seasons.

A bad 2010-11 deteriorate would push a bar that producedAlfredo di Stefano as well as was captained by Daniel Passarella, nowchairman, towards a brink of a first ever relegation.

Angel Cappa, who directed Huracan to second place in lastyear’s Clausura championship upon a shoe-string budget playing apassing diversion in a same tradition as River’s, is Passarella’sfavourite for a vacant position, a sports every day Olereported.

The fans’ prime to return as manager is former Inter Milanand Argentina 1982 World Cup striker Ramon Diaz, who has steeredthe bar to 5 joining titles. (Editing by Alison Wildey; to question or comment upon this storyemail sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)



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