Ricardo Gareca: “Ecuador is my only option to be DT of a national team”

An interview with the newspaper sport Ricardo Gareca has been clear about the possibility of being the new DT of Ecuador: “There is a good intention and interest from them. There is also my interest in being able to take on a team as important as the Ecuadorian one”. He said it Tiger in an interview with Argentine journalist Gustavo Cherquis.

Meanwhile, Francisco Egas commented on the successor to Gustavo Alfaro that “we have not interviewed candidates, there are several folders on the table.” And from Gareca and Sebastian Beccacece, the president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation, expressed his opinion on the digital channel mark 90: “They are great coaches, with experience in selection, but there is no one in front or behind”.

But for now Gareca, who led Peru to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and who was left out of Qatar 2022 after losing a play-off game with Australia on penalties, has no, unlike the FEF, more alternatives than Ecuador, in terms of to national teams.

The FEF ‘will have its times’

In an interview published this Wednesday in the newspaper sport, from Lima, Gareca is asked: what is missing for you to close with Ecuador? The 64-year-old trainer answers: “I don’t know. I had the pleasure of meeting the president (of the FEF) and then the negotiations are already in another facet. They will have their time, I will have mine. Surely they want to talk to other coaches. We are at a stage in which they decide and I will analyze everything that arises ”.

Gareca referred to the former driver of the Tricolor: “Alfaro spent two years in Ecuador and he did quite well, and he had never directed in the national team.” And asked about whether, in addition to Ecuador, he has other selection options to lead, Gareca was blunt: “No,” said the Argentine.

Is what happened to Ecuador in Qatar similar to what happened to Peru in Russia? That is to say, leaving a good impression and not classifying, they question Gareca in sport.

‘Ecuador came with options’

The former striker for Boca Juniors, River Plate, América de Cali, Independiente de Avellaneda and other clubs, responded: “It may be, but we did not reach the last date with chances. Ecuador arrived with options to qualify for the last date, very much alive. We did a good job, we got Denmark and France, and Denmark got away from us. But in a certain way it can be comparable because both teams left a good image”.

Gareca made a quick analysis of the role of the Conmebol teams in Qatar 2022. “In the qualifiers we saw a Brazil with two full-backs that went on the attack, in the World Cup we saw it with four center-backs, with a changed profile full-back and with Militao by right. I really liked Argentina and Ecuador. Uruguay was harmed by some failures and had a late reaction. I really liked what he did in the qualifiers. Brazil and Uruguay were the ones that changed a bit. It is what I saw of South America”. (D)