All closed! Luis Mena leaves Colo Colo and will be the new coach of the Chilean Women’s National Team

Luis Mena urgently arrived to take over Colo Colo Femenino in 2021 to fill the position left by Vanessa Arauz. Initially, her stay would only be to achieve a place in the Copa Libertadores in 2020 (it was held in 2021 as a result of the pandemic), an issue that she achieved and, finally, she stayed on the Albas bench.

During his stay, the Cacique regained his reputation in the category and, despite not achieving the goal in his first year directing, in 2022 it became a practically unstoppable team and ended up establishing itself as champion of the National Championship.

Luis Mena leaves Colo Colo Femenino to be the new coach of La Roja

With the 2023 women’s tournament underway, Macul’s cast will be left without their coach. The thing is, as DaleAlbo could know, Luis Mena has everything arranged to be the new technical director of the Chilean National Teamso the match against Santiago Morning (which will be played this Sunday, May 14), would be the last for the multi-champion on the bench of the Guerreras Albas.

In this way, a period of almost two and a half years ends, where he led 46 games, reaching 36 wins, 3 draws and only 7 losses; reaping an incredible yield of 79.54% in his first experience in charge of a women’s club.

The challenges with the Chilean Women’s National Team

After failing to qualify for the World Cup, the departure of José Letelier from La Roja’s bench was confirmed, thus being left without a visible face in command of a new process. In this way, with the desire to turn around the last presentations of the national team, Luis Mena was trusted to face the upcoming challenges.

The first thing that DT will have to plan will be the FIFA Date that will be held in July prior to the World Cup that will be played in Australia and New Zealand. Then, must face the women’s soccer tournament that will take place at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.