Chile coach Claudio Borghi was fired minutes after his team were outclassed 3-1 by Serbia in a friendly which saw midfielder Arturo Vidal sent off for the second international in a row.
The Juventus player was dismissed for a horrendous tackle as the frustrated South Americans slumped to their fifth successive defeat, conceding 14 goals in the process.
Vidal, also red-carded in last month’s World Cup qualifying defeat in Ecuador, was given his marching orders for a two-footed lunging challenge from behind in the 79th minute.
Serbia were already leading 3-0 with goals by Lazar Markovic, Filip Djordjevic and Filip Djuricic when Vidal lost his head.
Angelo Henriquez scored Chile’s goal in the 87th minute.
«They’ve asked me to step aside, I’m no longer the coach of the Chilean national team,» Borghi told Chilean reporters after the match in the Swiss town of St Gallen.
«The evaluation is not good, I had a meeting with the directors and they asked me to step aside.»
The 48-year-old Argentine had taken over in February last year after the resignation of his compatriot Marcelo Bielsa, who had become a national hero after leading Chile to the last 16 of the 2010 World Cup.
Chile have slumped to sixth in the nine-team South American World Cup qualifying group with 12 points from nine games
Source: Buenos Aires Herald