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I remember Mexico being interested in hiring him, did they replace Aguirre after WC?Marcelo Bielsa will leave his post as Chile coach after Harold Mayne-Nicholls lost the Chilean Football Federation (ANFP) presidential election on Thursday.Opposition leader Jorge Segovia, president of first division club Union Espanola, took the vote 28-22 and will assume the ANFP chair in January 2011, a ANFP spokesman said.
Bielsa, appointed by Mayne-Nicholls in 2007, announced on Wednesday that he would quit as coach if the opposition won the election.
In a hastily arranged news conference, Bielsa listed a number of factors that he felt made him incompatible with Spanish businessman Segovia and said he would not stay on if Mayne-Nicholls lost the presidency.
The Argentine was in charge of a highly successful spell for the Chile team, steering them to the World Cup finals in South Africa this year after a 12-year absence. They reached the second round where they lost to Brazil.
Segovia faces the task of finding a successor to Bielsa to take charge of Chile at next year's Copa America, the South American championship, in Argentina next year and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The Spaniard had the support of a majority of Chile's 32 professional soccer clubs including the "Big Three", champions
Colo Colo owed by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, Universidad de Chile and Universidad Catolica.
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Strange to see that he would tie himself in that manner to former president of the ANFP. There must be a reason he would do this. A bit of a blow to Chile and a damn shame because he had a young team who could go on to challenge in next Copa America.
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