Marcelo Bielsa, who abruptly quit at Lazio earlier this month, will sit down to talk about the open coaching position with Argentina, said acting Argentina Football Federation (AFA) president Armando Perez.
Argentina are currently looking to appoint a replacement for Gerardo Martino, who stepped down after the team's penalty shootout defeat to Chile in this summer's Copa America Centenario in the United States.
The situation is complicated by ongoing institutional chaos in Argentine football, and allegations of misappropriation of AFA funds, with the national government and FIFA having stepped in to appoint a Comision Regularizadora (Normalising Commission) to sort out the situation.
Perez, Cordoba's Belgrano president, who was named to head up AFA until elections are held in the federation, said that he has been in touch with the 60-year-old veteran coach.
"I spoke with Bielsa by phone and we are going to see whether we can meet," Perez told Telam. "I have been speaking with him, he is a person of high standards in all of the senses. We are going to see whether we can meet and we left it up to him."
Bielsa came under fire in Italy earlier this month after he announced he would not coach Lazio, just days after the deal had been penned.
Bielsa, who led Chile to the round-of-16 at the 2010 World Cup -- their first finals in 12 years -- returned to club management in 2011 with Athletic Bilbao. He led the Spanish club to the finals of both the Europa League and Copa del Rey in 2012.
However, he was unable to build on that success the following year or emulate it in a subsequent spell at Marseille and resigned from the French club after his first match in 2015.
"He is very serious and prudent, so I expect his call," Perez said of Bielsa, who coached the Albiceleste from 1998-2004. "He is a person who makes a commitment based upon what he can do and he has to really want something to agree to it.
"I think his analysis is always very specific and we have to see whether he can achieve what is being proposed. I asked him a few questions and told him it would be good to discuss further, but not over the phone."
Finally, Perez said that while he liked the notion of asking Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone to take over for the national team, he conceded that the Argentina native might be under contract restrictions.
"We had thought about Simeone but the subject of his contract is complicated," he said. "And I am not sure he is convinced that he would like to coach the national team."