Ricardo Gareca and the FEF still “need to touch on sports and economic aspects”

Ecuador continues in the search for the replacement of Gustavo Alfaro, who last Monday through a letter said goodbye to the country after the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) announced a week before the end of the cycle of the Argentine technical director who led the National Team from October 2020 until the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Ricardo Gareca appears strongly as a possible replacement, according to media reports from Spain and Peru.

Although Francisco Egas, president of the FEF, said on Tuesday night that “the leadership is just in a stage of analyzing candidates” to replace Alfaro, the newspaper ACE He affirmed on Wednesday that Gareca will be the new driver of the Tricolor.

According to the note of ACE “The Argentine coach (Gareca) and the Ecuadorian Federation have reached an agreement to officially assume the position of coach of the National Team at the end of January. After the departure of Gustavo Alfaro de la Tri, the FEF has accelerated negotiations with the former coach of Peru.

In this sense, this Thursday it was possible to know through the Argentine communicator César Luis Merlo -who gave the scoop on the non-continuation of Alfaro in Ecuador seven days ago- that the FEF “had a talk with Ricardo Gareca to tempt him to be the successor of Gustavo Alfaro”.

The report by the guru of the transfer market at the Latin American level, however, specifies that “there are no greater advances than these: sporting and economic aspects still need to be touched on.”

(News in development)