The Crusaders coach’s process is currently considering thirteen wins, six draws and nine losses.
ariel holan was made official as new technician of Catholic University on April 30 to face the challenges of the Crusaders in the Copa Chile, the 2022 National Championship and the Copa Libertadores.
After resigning from León de México after poor results in the Clausura 2022 Liga MX tournament, the Argentine coach returned to the team with which he reached the quarter-finals of the Copa Sudamericana, where he fell to Vélez Sarsfield and took the domestic victory . tournament that gave the striped three-time championship.
After leaving San Carlos de Apoquindo, DT had steps taken by Brazil’s Santos and La Fiera, a club in which he directed 44 matches, leaving a balance of 21 wins, 10 draws and 13 losses. During his first stint with Las Condes, he recorded 23 wins, 13 draws and 10 falls, totaling 46 games.
And the first challenge for the coach, who took the vacant position of his compatriot Cristian Paulucci when he was fired, was against Unión La Calera, winning 3-0. He lost to Flamengo in Rio to say goodbye to the Copa Libertadores and back in Chile he took on Audax Italiano and lost 3-2 in El Teniente de Rancagua, in a duel valid for the fourteenth round of the local tournament.
Then they were defeated by Talleres (0-1) on the sixth day of Group H, negating their chances to advance in the continental tournament, and were transferred to the second most important tournament where they will face Sao Paulo in the eighth finals. After the bust caused by the fall by the Matador, UC returned to the path of victories by defeating Deportes Antofagasta at the end of the first round.
And due to the traditional competition with Colo Colo as the current champion, the fringed started the third round on the right foot, coming out victorious from Lucio Fariña with a favorable score of 1-3 against Unión San Felipe thanks to the conquests of Fernando Zampedri and Jose Pedro Fuenzalida. With this, the students had an advantage over the Albirrojos, which they defined in the rematch on July 25 (3-0), which coincided with the great debut of Mauricio Isla.
The South American’s debut was very complex for a UC that finished with three men but a 2-4 against who had his last international chances in 2022 provided.
The other half of glory? An illusion that didn’t last long, and nothing: Sao Paulo did another 4 as locals, led Holan to 5 losses, and UC retired as the worst team in the round of 16, falling 3-8 on aggregate.
Meanwhile, in the resumption of domestic competition, the striped shop went strong at home by beating Coquimbo Unido 2-0; However, they suffered a heavy defeat against Curicó Unido and Palestino that distanced them from the dream of the five-time championship. The painful 1-0 against Cobresal reshuffles their year-end project, and the point in Viña allows them to add, but go beyond their goals: yes, Kagelmacher signed the first draw for Holan in his second leg. The second came a few days later, in the 2-2 draw against O’Higgins at Las Condes.
Before the return of the Chile Cup, in the round of 16 stage, the Holan team triumphed in the seventh win of their second period: 2-0 against Audax in La Florida (Ampuero, Zampedri). He won for the eighth time in the rematch against the Italians, at the farewell to San Carlos. The ninth win? In the Clásico Universitario 195, with 3 goals to 0. The tenth, 4-0 to La Serena including Zampedri’s aerial pirouette. The 11th was completed in Rancagua, the eventual new home: 1-0 to Huachipato at the pace of Zampedri, while he lost to the blues before the first leg of the quarter-finals of the cup holder competition, so he will have to confirm what has been achieved in the first moments of the repechage to access the semifinals.
Back in the championship, the striped matched an almost champion Colo Colo in Macul and then 2 in El Teniente with Ñublense, complicating too much their option to become top 3 in Libertadores.
Finally, it was a draw in the Copa Chile rematch against U that sealed the elimination in the quarter-finals, leaving no chance of even winning a title in 2022, after winning everything in the stage 2018-2021.
Holan rowed from behind and left his team in fourth by winning 2-1 in Santa Laura against Unión, 3 dates before the end of the year, but he fell and very ugly against Unión La Calera (4-0) and has to his ticket to Sudamericana after drawing a draw against Audax Italiano in the farewell of their historic José Pedro Fuenzalida, Luciano Aued and Germán Lanaro. At the 2022 farewell, his UC triumphed over Deportes Antofagasta and hit the quota for the South American.
STATISTICS
In Goal, we take a look at Holan’s numbers on the UC bench:
SEASON 2022
SEASON 2023
In 2023, UC confirmed a series of international matches ahead of its Tournament and Copa Sudamericana debut. The foothills store, which one has five new additionsreturns to court on January 5, facing the first instance oriental oil in the Esther Roa Rebolledo. Then they play against Workshops of Cordoba Y Central Rosary as part of the Santiago 2023 Summer Friendly Games. The Crusaders will make their domestic league debut against Everton in Sausalito on Sunday, January 22. Capture that before they played two pre-season games against Magallanes with victories 3-0 and 4-1.
Source: Goal