This is the dilemma of the new coach of the Colombian National Team

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Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlos Queiroz (with whom they would talk this weekend), the ones that sound the most.

The name of Luiz Felipe Scolari, current Palmeiras technician, appeared as an option, more for the offer of his businessmen than for an interest born from the executive committee of the federation, although contacts have existed. The option of the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, with whom there were also approaches, is still valid.

Scolari, world champion with Brazil in 2002 and the Libertadores Cup twice (with Gremio, in 1995, and Palmeiras, in 1999), has just won the Brazilian Championship with this last club, where the Colombian attacker Miguel Ángel Borja acts .

Borja, who was on Wednesday in Barranquilla watching the final of the South American Cup between Junior and Atlético Paranaense, referred to the possibility that Scolari could reach the national team: "I said I was convincing him and I got into trouble in Brazil, Then I can not say anything else. Let him make the decision, "he said.

Scolari had recognized Colombia's offer. "I have a proposal, yes, but it is an issue that now that the championship is over I will think clearly," he told ESPN Brazil. "In the last 20, 25 years, I must have spent 80 percent of my time outside of Brazil. There is the question of my family and also the other family in which I have to think, which is the Palmeirean family, "he added.

With Queiroz there have already been two meetings, one at the Fifa Awards ceremony The Best, and another one in Portugal. This weekend, following the final of the Copa Libertadores between River Plate and Boca Juniors, there is talk of a new contact to talk about figures, but that has not been confirmed by sources of the Football Federation.

The vice president of Colfútbol and head of the amateur division, Álvaro González Alzate, is the only one who has openly shown his cards and has publicly expressed his intention that the coach of the National Team be Colombian. However, his fan was closed before the confirmation of Juan Carlos Osorio as coach of Paraguay and Reinaldo Rueda in Chile. Sources consulted by EL TIEMPO assured that the idea is for the name of the new coach to come out by "unanimity" after studying several resumes.