“DT Jimmy Brand got out of hand the Ecuadorian National Team,” according to Franklin Salas

The expectations that Ecuador could play a notable role in the South American U-20 tournament vanished in the first group games of the 2023 Colombian championship. The poor collective and individual performance, defensive fragility, the ineffectiveness in attack, and the confusion in the game raised by coach Jimmy Bran.

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Ecuador arrived as defending champion and the title is now vacant. He couldn’t defend his crown. The generosity of the format (from the final hexagonal four qualify for the World Cup), however, makes the Tricolor, with just one draw and three losses in the decisive stage, maintain the option of going to the World Cup after the penultimate date.

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Why has Ecuador’s performance been poor? According to Franklin Salas, the reasons point to the handling of the trainer. This was said by the Magician on the show very sporty: “From what I know, and I have information, the group got out of hand to Jimmy (Bran). It’s sad that 19-year-old boys make a bad face at you, that they don’t lend you a hand in your (technical) talk. When someone comes and gives you an important talk and that the players have to call them out for being distracted, it speaks very badly of the group”.

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For the former Liga de Quito player “with (Jorge) Célico that type of attitude would not have happened. As much as there are players who are abroad, they are one more in the National Team ”.

“What about the other players?” Salas wondered about behaviors that he considers inappropriate in the youth Tricolor. “If I see that my partner has that attitude, that he comes out angry because they change him, and fighting with everyone, a DT must handle that. The only way to help these types of boys is with punishments because this is formative football”, commented the now coach.

In the final part of his speech about the U20, Salas, a 41-year-old from Quito, declared: “We saw that (Bran) took out a player and he came out extremely angry, and that later there was a talk and the player was still angry. Another strong person from the National Team came in (to give a talk), and he was still angry! So how do you do there? One player or the group? You’re playing the World Cup for a footballer! That’s bad. I separate it and then I give explanations to the journalists”. (D)