Paraguay Retains Coach Gerardo Martino Through Copa America

Martino, in the wake of this summer’s finals, had planned to leave the team to pursue jobs at the club level, but after last week’s decision to stay on through next year’s confederation championship, the Argentine has entered into a deal which will run through 2014, with one caveat:

As a coach, his successes have been in Paraguay, where he won three Primera Division titles prior to becoming coach of the national team.