Guillermo Almada is a solid candidate to lead the Ecuadorian team with a view to the 2026 World Cup, reports ESPN Mexico

Once ESPN Mexico reported at the beginning of the week the interest of Ecuador in the technical director Guillermo Almada, in the North American country they opened the debate (via Twitter) about who should take the reins of the Aztec team, since the Pachuca coach is a serious candidate for the press.

According to the report of ESPNAlmada “has been tempted” by the Ecuador national team to take over the team for the 2026 World Cup qualifying round, although the media adds that the South American country is also committed to the continuity of Gustavo Alfaro.

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“Sources assured that the interest that Guillermo Almada direct to Ecuador It is very high, however, it is known that he currently has a four-year relationship with the people of Hidalgo,” says the note from ESPN Posted on Monday, January 9.

ESPN assumes that Ecuadorians have as a “point in favor” that “in the agreement between Pachuca and the Uruguayan is that he could leave the team as long as his next destination is a national team ”. In Mexico, however, the former Barcelona SC manager is also a serious contender for sports journalism, just like Ricardo Ferreti and Miguel Herrera.

The name of Almada reappeared in the Mexican media after the elimination of El Tri in the World Cup in Qatar last November, after being placed third in his group, which caused the end of the stage of the Argentine Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino.

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the newspapers The Observer (Uruguay) and Millennium (Mexico) placed Almada as a candidate for the bench.

“With Mexico out of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the name of Guillermo Almada reappears,” he titled The Observer. as long as Millennium places the 53-year-old Uruguayan in a group of five candidates, behind Miguel Herrera, and ahead of Jaime Lozano, Diego Cocca and Antonio Mohamed.

Interviewed by EL UNIVERSO last November, Almada said he was flattered that his work team is mentioned by the Mexican press as “Ideal candidates to take the selection of a country that is very nationalistic”.

Alfaro further away from renewing with Ecuador

This Thursday it came out in Argentina that Gustavo Alfaro “decided not to continue” as Ecuador’s coach after two years in office.

According to information developed by the Argentine communicator César Luis Merlo, a specialist in the transfer market in Latin America, the coach’s decision is based on the fact that he saw that “I did not see that the conditions were given to plan for the future if things from the recently completed cycle had not been fulfilled”.

Merlo affirms that the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) did let the Argentine coach know that they wanted to renew him to lead the next world cup cycle

The elimination in the group stage of the World Cup in Qatar with a defeat against Senegal (2-1) marked the end of the albiceleste as technical director of Ecuador. That November 29, 2022, for reasons of the contract signed with the FEF in 2020, the link came to an end. The automatic renewal was activated last March after qualifying for the World Cup, but in addition to that there was no more.

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