Mexico’s search for a full-time manager has seemingly ended in Atlanta, with multiple reports stating Atlanta United manager Tata Martino is set to become the El Tri boss as soon as the Major League Soccer team’s season is done.
Martino’s professional playing career was mostly with Newell’s Old Boys in Argentina. From 1980 until 1995, Martino played almost 400 games, with short stints with Tenerife in Brazil and Lanús in Buenos Aires interspersed in the early 1990’s. Jamie Ralph of the unofficial Newell’s Old Boys - English twitter account remember Martino during his playing days in Argentina, telling FMF State of Mind “Tata was a creative midfielder under Marcelo Bielsa for NOB in the 90’s, so while he is not the second coming of El Loco, he has taken many of his ideas and developed them into his own system.