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Fair or not, the chant was raised from the stands after the team’s last game draw at the national stadium. Three weeks have passed since Peru’s 1-1 draw against Venezuela in Round 6 of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, and since that event there has been talk of Juan Reynoso not continuing as coach on social media and in every game plan. Team Peru. Although the sports section of the Peruvian Football Federation confirmed to this newspaper Juan Reynoso He won’t continue to command the bicolor, but why hasn’t his separation been announced until now? We will answer that and other questions in the following note.
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It all started on Wednesday, November 22. DT contacted a source inside Videna: Juan Carlos Oblitas, the sporting director of the FPF at the time, asked to meet Agustin Lozano, the president of the FPF. Our source told us after that meeting: “It’s hard to support Juan in these circumstances. “Now it’s in the hands of the board.”
Since then, no information has changed in the following days about how the Juan Reynoso issue is going. “I don’t know when Juan Reynoso will be resolved. There is always a deadline, but it’s a topic that doesn’t concern me, you understand.
However, this newspaper was able to confirm that last Monday night, Juan Carlos Oblitas traveled to Uruguay to open talks with current Universitario coach Jorge Fossati, despite Juan Carlos Oblitas denying the trip to Uruguay. Travel to Montevideo to meet Fossati. Then, social networks did their thing: they published a photo of the director of the national teams in Montevideo. However, in the middle of her flight, she was approached by the media and was delayed in ending her relationship with Juan Reynoso.
“I’m going to America, if I can I’m going to the Copa America. I’m traveling for a personal reason and if that’s enough I’ll go to the Copa America draw and we’ll see the other one. (Fossati) is one of the possibilities, a technician with extensive skills, who knows the environment, but at the moment we are out of any conversation,” he commented.
Regarding the delay in ending the contractual relationship with Juan Reynoso, Juan Carlos Oblitas said: “I thought so, but the negotiations are going slower than I thought. The truth is that there is a commission for this issue and hopefully the issue will be resolved in a few days. The players always supported him but the results did not happen,” he said.
How is Juan Reynoso’s division going?
El Comercio was able to learn that the issue “has not moved forward” until now. This is because Matías Farina, Juan Reynoso’s representative, is not in Peru and has not been notified to meet with the FPF team. A source close to Reynoso told us: “It’s a lie that Reynoso is listening to everything, if they want to fire him he’s ready to talk, and of course it’s not appropriate for the FPF to talk to another coach. When there is a coach in the office.” He commented.
As part of his legal strategy, Juan Reynoso always travels to Videna to do his practice work. He has a very close relationship with the Peruvian under-23 team led by Jose ‘Kemo’ Del Solar and the FPF has yet to tell him. No longer works in Videna. Agustin Lozano, the president of the federation, is controversial and questionable, and has not met him till date.
Precisely, this newspaper sought through the official channels of the Peruvian Football Federation to authorize us to speak with the person in charge of looking over the contract part of Juan Reynoso. “We are sorry, but considering that these matters are in line with the scope of Juan Reynoso’s possible private life, FPF will not issue any official statement for the time being,” said an employee of the agency.
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Three possible scenarios:
With all this information gathered and many aspects to be resolved, there are three possible scenarios for Juan Reynoso’s context. This is compared to the legal context of a practitioner who wished not to issue statements for the time being.
– The FPF decides to continue the project, and this is what the technical command led by Juan Reynoso wants.
– FPF decided not to proceed and agreement was reached.
– The FPF unilaterally terminates the contract, after which the Technical Command will determine what measures are agreed upon.
In this situation, with many open possibilities, the FPF is apparently negotiating with Jorge Fossati, Oblitas has promised to finish negotiations with Reynoso and his lawyer until Monday. Today it is everybody’s team and nobody’s team. After his return from Montevideo, Juan Carlos Oblitas will meet this Monday with the commission responsible for looking into the issue of Juan Reynoso’s dismissal.
However, another FPF source spoke to this newspaper on Saturday and spoke about the delay in sacking the Peruvian team’s current coach, Juan Reynoso. “The last thing I know, it’s still the same, it’s weird, it’s been going on for days now,” he commented.
Finally, from Videna, Jorge Fossati, the current coach of the Universitario de Deportes, makes it clear to us that the only way to lead the Peruvian team is and they are a little upset about how they handled the problem. “Fossati was chosen and we wanted to go slow in the negotiations, but his problem with ‘U’ forced us to act differently. If this continues to drag on (ending the contract with Reynoso), everything will be complicated,” said our source.
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