Nacional dismissed Leonardo Zylbersztein and points to Miguel Volcan as a substitute

The board of directors of Nacional led by Ariel Martínez decided dismiss Leonardo Zylbersztein as coach on Tuesday night of the club.

Tuesday’s defeat against Malvín was the final trigger for the departure of the DT who came to the tricolor for the 2019-2020 League to succeed Gonzalo Fernández.

“We are very far from what was planned”, they told Referee from inside Nacional to explain the change.

Nacional is 12th in the 2021-2022 League with a record of 7 wins against 11 losses. It is three points above Urunday Universitario, which along with Capitol are the two teams that are in the relegation zone. What’s more, the tricolor lost the classic at home with Penarol.

Counting the classic, National lost five of their last seven matches at the local level.

In the Basketball Champions League Americas, Nacional must play the last window in March, in San Pablo, against the local team and Quimsa. In Santiago del Estero they lost to both rivals in December and earlier this month, at the Antel Arena, they lost to the Brazilians and beat the Argentines in a resounding victory.

In the 2021 League he was a finalist

Zylbersztein reached the semi-finals in his first League with Nacional losing to Aguada in the semifinals 3-2 in a tournament interrupted for seven months due to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the points before the water carrier was lost at the desks for violations of the sanitary protocol by the tricolors.

In the 2021 League, the tricolor reached the final against Biguá losing 3-2.

In National directed 86 games of which he won 45 and lost 41 between Uruguayan League, South American League (semifinalist in 2019) and Champions.

Previously, Zylbesztein had managed Hebraica Macabi with whom he was champion in 2015-2016, after succeeding the Argentine Fabio Demti, and in 2016-2017. In the 2017-2018 season, the Macabeo was eliminated by Malvín in the quarterfinals.

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Miguel Volcan, candidate

According to the source consulted, Miguel Volcan is one of the candidates to succeed Zylbersztein. Volcan, based in Argentina, directed Olimpia on different occasions and made Aguada champion in the 2018-2019 season after succeeding Fernando “Hechicero” Cabrera in the tournament and who was later dismissed and supplanted by Adrián Capelli in December 2019 during the 2019-2020 League and after a poor performance in the Basketball Champions League Americas.

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Nacional dismissed Leonardo Zylbersztein and points to Miguel Volcan as a substitute