Carlos Alfaro Moreno: It seems unfair and strange to me that no player from Barcelona SC is in the Ecuador under-20 team for the South American in Colombia

Carlos Alfaro Moreno, president of Barcelona Sporting Club, finds it “strange” that no player from the formative bullfighters has been considered in the squad for the Ecuador under-20 team, which will defend the title in the South American tournament that begins on Friday in Colombia.

The list of 23 soccer players presented by national coach Jimmy Bran is made up of eight members of Independiente del Valle, seven from Liga de Quito, three from the current champion, Aucas, as well as one from each of the following clubs: Emelec, Guayaquil City , Deportivo Cuenca, Sporting Cristal (Peru) and Ajax (Netherlands).

Gilmar Napa, goalkeeper who this year will be part of Emelec’s first team, had his training in the Orense SC youth academy, in Machala.

“I have no commitment to anyone,” says the coach of the Ecuador under-20 team for the call to the South American in Colombia

“Do you think that for the 2022 World Cup they were the best? If there were people who did not agree with the World Cup list, why should I approve the sub-20 call for the South American?” Alfaro Moreno commented in his radio interview diblúafter ten days of knowing the list.

Formative of Barcelona SC and Emelec, with zero contribution in the call of the selection of Ecuador sub-20 for the South American in Colombia

“I am angry with the coach of the under-20 team. Bran graduated from the Institute of the Ecuadorian Football Federation and, through an agreement with Barcelona SC, he came to do internships at the club in 2016, and later he was given a salary for his ability and preparation. because it was also considered so. He led our training sessions, he knows the team very well and, in my opinion, and I could be wrong, he should have brought a bullfighter player, ”added the president of the yellows.

“And I don’t want to think badly, but, analyzing well, he was wrong and it has been unfair. This has been strange, ”the Canarian manager concluded in his speech about the youth team, which has the challenge of defending the title won in Chile in 2019 under the command of Argentine coach Jorge Célico.

Alfaro Moreno considered that the coach of the mini-Tri did not consider goalkeeper Justin Cornejo, Leonardo Yánez at the wheel, and striker Energio Díaz, among others, for his team.

After announcing the call, Bran, 43, stated on the radio Huancavilca: “First investigate, ask why I did not take such a player,” said the coach from Guayaquil.

“If something characterizes me, it is the professional ethics that I have, and I am honest, direct with the players. I know what it is to feel when there is groping of players. All the boys who have been there have been because we have mapped out the players, ”he added.

The mini-Tri is in group B along with Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Uruguay. His debut will be on Friday, January 20 (7:30 p.m.) against the Chileans; on Sunday 22 (16:00) they will face the Bolivians; on Thursday the 26th he will collide with the llaneros; and closes his participation in this phase on Saturday 28 against the charrúas. All duels will be at the Deportivo Cali stadium. (D)