Martino: Barcelona got the information about me by the President of Paraguay

Gerardo "Tata" Martino new coach of the Barcelona team Revealed that the Catalan club president Sandro Rosell phoned Paraguay Horacio CARTES to get information about him.

Tata explained that he had already met Rosell at a dinner in the Paraguayan capital Asunción accompanied CARTES, who was president of the club Libertad at that time.

Russell seems to be impressed with the mentality of the Argentine coach, make him within his options for future succession patient coach Tito Vilanova.

And after the health statue of Tito worsened and his suffering a new setback with cancer forced him to leave his post, Russell began in action contacts with Gerardo who was present in Argentina after leaving the train Newell's Old Boys.

However, Russell was unable to reach Tata phone, so he called the President of Paraguay in the hope of finding him, according to the same coach novel in an interview for (TN).

"I somehow realized that Russell Looking about me, I did not understand it so himself finally called me, and asked me to communicate with Zubizarreta (sporting director)."

It is noteworthy that Tata has achieved 11 titles in his coaching career, 10 of them in Paraguay.

Gerardo began his career as a coach in the second division in Argentina with a team Almirante Brown in 1998, before traveling to Paraguay, where he achieved great successes between 2002 and 2006, so he honored seven titles with Libertad and three with Cerro Porteno.

His local achievements enabled him to take over the coach of Paraguay, 2006, came out of the quarter-finals, Cuba, America 2007, and won the Runners in 2011 after losing to Uruguay, and the funny thing is that he had reached the final without winning a game.

He also led Paraguay in the World Cup in South Africa 2010 so he qualified  to the quarter-finals for the first time in the country's history, Latin, and painstakingly went out in front of the heroine later Spain with the sole aim to David Villa after Oscar Cardozo wasted a penalty kick.

He Returned to his hometown to lead Newell's Old Boys, succeeded in spared the danger of relegation, but succeeded in the last league title, also reached the semi-final of the Libertadores Cup mainland.